If his future does not seem threatened, the manager of Racing 92 has not yet completely convinced. Here’s why…
You will probably tell us that what happened at the start of the week, near Porte d’Auteuil and around fifteen kilometers from Plessis-Robinson, could give ideas to Jacky Lorenzetti and Laurent Travers. And since Karim Ghezal, the head coach of Stade Français, was fired after four days of the championship, a similar mishap could well happen to Stuart Lancaster, if unfortunately the Ciel et Blanc lost on Saturday in Morbihan…
Put away your guillotines and put away the scaffold, my good people! From what we know, the Ile-de-France manager will be in office on Monday if his team loses at Rabine and will also end his four-year contract at Racing. In Hauts-de-Seine, Lorenzetti has always refused the whims of a prince and if Philippe Berbizier, at another time, or Yannick Nyanga, closer to us, were all one day asked to pack their bags, the he former CEO of Foncia never touched the contracts of the managers to whom he seems inexorably linked his destiny. At the end of June and when he was already asked a question about the future of Lancaster in France, he said: “Just look at the number of coaches that Racing has used for sixteen years: there was “Berbize” (Pierre Berbizier) and the two “Lolo” (Labit and Travers), with a short stint of Gonzalo Quesada between both. That’s all. The question of Stuart’s future doesn’t even arise.” In fact, we even remember that on the day in 2012 when several rebels, including Sébastien Chabal and Jonathan Wisniewski, asked him for the head of “Berbize”, “JLO” preferred to get rid of the rebels rather than turn their back on his sports boss.
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In the fall of 2024, however, it appears that if Stuart Lancaster’s training methods are still praised by the vast majority of his players, the rigidity of the character is sometimes cause for concern within the club: “He’s not a great communicator, a member of the Ile-de-France entity told us on Wednesday. “Stuart has difficulty opening up and the players sometimes suffer from it.”
Obviously, the former boss of the Rose therefore has various projects before him, the first of which concerns him directly. And if no one today asks the child from the north of England to spin napkins or sing the Dyke of the Ass in a meeting, we would prefer the said “Burt” less marmoreal than it is, when the Canal + cameras target him in the stands. More expressive and more rugby, in short. Because, whether he likes it or not, he now embodies the face of an entire club…
