Stuart Lancaster: Painful period of transition will serve Ireland well

Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster during Leinster Rugby squad training at UCD. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Stuart Lancaster knows a team in transition when he sees one. 

Now Leinster senior coach, he understood that change was the way forward when he took over an England squad whose 2011 World Cup campaign was capped with a quarter-final defeat to France and Manu Tuilagi’s leap off a ferry in Auckland Harbour.