RFU says there is 'no risk' in giving head coach Stuart Lancaster a new six-year contract through to 2020

RFU says there is 'no risk' in giving head coach Stuart Lancaster a new six-year contract through to 2020

England
won the Rugby World Cup in 2003 and were later pilloried for not having a
succession plan in place.

Within 12 months they were in disarray.

No one can
accuse the Rugby Football Union on that score these days, which is why Ian
Ritchie, the chief executive, was able to bat aside all reservations about
the unprecedented six-year contract extension handed out to Stuart Lancaster
and his coaching team with an emphatic rallying cry: “This is not a risk.




Of course there is an element of the unknown about it all.

How will results
pan out? England may not even g…

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