Let’s ditch the captain’s challenge, says Stuart Lancaster

The Leinster senior coach believes the current World Rugby law trial has created 'integrity challenges'

DYNAMIC DUO: Leinster head coach Leo Cullen, left, and senior coach Stuart Lancaster observe proceedings at yesterday’s training session at UCD. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Having sat through more than an hour of dead gametime in Glasgow last Friday, Stuart Lancaster needed little encouragement when asked for ways to improve the game.

“Get rid of the captain’s challenge,” Leinster’s senior coach said yesterday and he would not be the only one to be happy to see the current World Rugby law trial placed on the “rejected” pile come the end of its run in the Rainbow Cup. Johann van Graan voiced his opposition to it the previous weekend and that after Munster had profited from captain CJ Stander’s intervention on seeing a Cardiff Blues infringement not spotted by the match officials during a tense endgame in Limerick.