{"id":79298,"date":"2025-09-22T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/79298\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:31:12","slug":"well-see-stuart-lancaster-says-he-hasnt-discussed-ireland-job-with-irfu-as-he-targets-big-improvement-at-connacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/79298\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ll see\u2019 \u2013 Stuart Lancaster says he hasn\u2019t discussed Ireland job with IRFU as he targets big improvement at Connacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster is looking to build on their pre-season form. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6974d04f-18d3-41e0-b44f-f56c11ede47f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster is looking to build on their pre-season form. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Connacht\u2019s new head coach Stuart Lancaster says he has not given the idea of taking over from Andy Farrell much consideration, but didn\u2019t close the door on the idea of succeeding his former assistant as Ireland coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lancaster, who was sacked by Racing 92 midway through last season, is preparing for his first match in charge of his new team against Benetton on Saturday having signed a contract that brings him to 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster is looking to build on their pre-season form. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/Sportsfile Connacht\u2019s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[23199,18,19,17,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-79298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-connacht-rugby","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}