Warning for sale-bound Danny Cipriani

ENGLAND’S interim coach Stuart Lancaster warned Danny Cipriani his attitude will have to be right if he wants to break back into the national team.

Cipriani will join Sale Sharks on a three-year deal in the summer with the stated intention of reclaiming the England No 10 jersey for the 2015 World Cup. The 24-year-old won the last of his seven caps in the autumn of 2008.

Cipriani did not endear himself to Lancaster after being dropped to the second-string Saxons squad and he has been in disciplinary trouble for off-field incidents during his stint with the Melbourne Rebels. Lancaster, who has a list of around nine England stand-off candidates for the 2015 World Cup, said: “It’s great he’s come back to England, he has put his front foot forwards,” Lancaster said. “He will come back and have to do what every other player will have to do and that is play well for his club, try and get himself into the Saxons and then into the senior squad.”