game, and he joined the Tigers coaching team where he made a rapid rise up the coaching ranks, becoming the forwards/scrum coach for the English national team ahead of the 2008 Six Nations Championship. He toured South Africa with the British & Irish Lions in 2009, acting as scrum coach, before being named forwards coach for the winning test series against Australia in 2013 and scrum coach for the drawn series with New Zealand in 2017. Following the resignation of head coach Stuart Lancaster on 11 November 2015, newly appointed head coach Eddie Jones sacked the whole coaching team, with Rowntree leaving his post with England after eight years in December 2015. At the end of the 2015–16 English Premiership season, it was announced that Harlequins had appointed Rowntree as their new forwards coach. Rowntree joined the Georgian national team in 2018, but left after the 2019 Rugby World Cup to join Irish province Munster as their new forwards coach. He signed a two-year contract extension with Munster in January 2022, and, in April 2022, the province confirmed that Rowntree would replace Johann van Graan as head coach from the 2022–23 season. Notes External links England profile Rowntree @ Planet Rugby Player stats from Planet Rugby Sporting heroes 1971 births Living people Barbarian F.C. players British & Irish Lions rugby union players from England England international rugby union players English rugby union coaches English rugby union players Leicester Tigers players Rugby union players from Stockton-on-Tees Rugby union props Munster Rugby non-playing staff