Connacht proved to be Harlequins' undoing on Friday evening
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The Daily Telegraph's Mick Cleary looks at the mission ahead for Stuart Lancaster after a difficult weekend for the English clubs in Europe.
"The England players will undergo medical testing when they gather at their Weetwood Hall base in Leeds on Monday. If Stuart Lancaster thought that would be a routine assignment when he scheduled it in the diary, then it no longer is.
Not only has he a rotten run of injuries to catalogue, he also has, after a torrid 10 days of Heineken Cup rugby, the deteriorating health of English rugby to consider.
He can be thankful that he has been spared any more calamity on the injury front. There were no serious mishaps on this closing weekend of European group action.
If only the well-being of the English sides was in such reasonable shape. Two of the Premiership’s leading lights, Northampton and Leicester, shipped 92 points in two matches against two Irish provinces, Ulster and Munster."
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