Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster. Image: Ben Brady/INPHO Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster. Image: Ben Brady/INPHO STUART LANCASTER BELIEVES Ireland are in a good place heading into the Six Nations, noting stability in selection as a key area working in Andy Farrell’s favour.
“One of the challenges with England was obviously you have 12 teams , and usually the spread was, not even, but usually there was three or four from most of the top-end clubs, certainly the top eight,” Lancaster explains. So I think for Andy it’s a real strength. In terms of balance from one side, you can see the Ulster players, the Munster players and the Connacht players getting rewarded for their form. That’s the nature of the beast in Ireland. The challenge is to create a team that has cohesion and can execute because it’s a results-based business.
“There’s a company called Gainline Analytics and it looks at team cohesion and basically their premise is the team that has the most experience of playing together generally comes out on top when all things are equal,” Lancaster continues.
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