Stuart Lancaster: Leinster favour New Zealand ethos but with a Springbok twist

Lancaster’s hope is that the demographics in the Leinster dressing-room are better now than in recent seasons

Leinster coach Stuart Lancaster. Picture: INPHO/Billy Stickland

Stuart Lancaster has acknowledged that Leinster cannot afford to be a one-trick pony if they want to move on from recent disappointments in the Heineken Champions Cup and capture the province’s fifth European title.

Leo Cullen’s side has won the last four PRO14 titles, and is favourite to be the inaugural United Rugby Championship kingpins next summer, but they have butted heads with a glass ceiling in the continent’s most coveted tournament the last three seasons.