Stuart Lancaster's new long-term contract is controversial but gives him certainty, which is not to be sniffed at

Somewhere up north Nina Lancaster is having mixed thoughts and emotions.

She
will be happy that her husband, Stuart, has just been awarded a new six-year
contract by the Rugby Football Union, which will see him in charge of England
until 2020 and that this will make him their longest-serving head coach.




That said, part of her will know that she has to face the fact that he will
not be around for a lot of the time and when he is he will have to juggle
the roles of husband, father and England supremo – the last of those never
far from his mind, even when he helps with t…