Stuart Lancaster: 'I'd love to come back and coach in Ireland'

The imminent goodbyes have snuck up on Lancaster. All the more so now that the loss to Munster last week has shaved a week off the season’s end. This week is it, then

FINAL FURLONG: Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster. Pic: INPHO/Evan Treacy

Eight months since Leinster announced Stuart Lancaster’s summer departure to Racing 92. Thoughts of leaving Dublin after seven years will have colonised his thoughts for longer again. In short, the province’s senior coach has had an age to process his next chapter.

Life being what it is though, the imminent goodbyes have snuck up on him. All the more so now that the URC semi-final loss to Munster last week has shaved a week off the season’s end. This week is it, then. One more crack at a Champions Cup final – his fourth – and that’s him out the door.