Fake News: Lancaster on Racing 92 rumours

01/02/2025 06:07 AM

SPOTLIGHT: Racing 92 head coach Stuart Lancaster has come out strong in his denial that he will be departing the Top 14 club any time soon.

Discussing the rumours that gained traction on the highly popular Rugby Pod, Lancaster told the French sports site RMC that there was no truth to the speculation.

"I was disappointed by the lies told about me.

"One of them started in England about my departure for Munster, which is totally false.

"I lost all the respect I had for the people on the podcast who said that."

"But what disappointed me the most was the fact that other people presented information on their websites as true without checking the facts.

"We live in a world full of false information; it is a responsibility to check it," Lancaster said.

Circling back to where the initial conversations around his departures began, former England flyhalf Andy Goode said, "I'm hearing either Lanny wants out or they want him out."

Delving deeper into the topic, Goode mentioned that he had heard that the French players were unhappy with the former Leinster coach picking his son Dan at flyhalf.

"He's picking his son at flyhalf. Apparently, the French lads are not happy with Stuart Lancaster whatsoever, and I'm not sure Lanny's enjoying that relationship with the French lads and the club.

"You know how fickle it is over there when Jacky Lorenzetti can call out one of the best players in the world in Siya Kolisi saying he's put on weight, he leaves and goes back to the Sharks. It isn't a stable relationship when you start losing a few [players].

"The easy thing to do over in Racing and in France, in general, is just to blame the non-French option, blame the English guys, blame the Scots, blame whoever else is there that's not French, and Lanny's under some heat.

"I've heard he's chucked his hat in the ring for Munster because he wants out of Racing, but we'll see what happens," Goode concluded.

Source: Rugbydump