STUART RUMOUR CAST ASIDE

Cullen: It's all speculation...but if Dris is true we will cope & carry on

- DEREK FOLEY

LEINSTER coach Leo Cullen says reports linking Stuart Lancaster with Racing 92 are just speculation.

But was bullish in claiming no one was bigger than the club; if it could survive losing Brian O'Driscoll it could survive losing anyone as 'the show rolls on'.

It has been an uneasy week for the Irish provincial champions who finished last term without a trophy, a first for six seasons.

The French media, with L'Equipe and MIDI-Olympic leading the charge, have been focused on their perennial soap-opera club Racing '92 who are promoting head coach Laurent Travers (inset) to director of dugby for 2023/24.

A deal to take Lancaster to Paris as head coach, they say, has been agreed in principle.