England can still win the Rugby World Cup, insists Stuart Lancaster

Stuart Lancaster, the England head coach, insisted there was still time to transform his side into World Cup champions this year despite his captain, Chris Robshaw, describing the failure to snatch the RBS Six Nations title from Ireland on Saturday as a "devastating" blow.

England will now go into the World Cup in September and October on the back of four successive second-place finishes in the championship and ranked fourth in the world behind New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland.

Lancaster, however, insisted that with high-calibre players such as Joe Launchbury, Owen Farrell and Manu…