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title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;province">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;province">Weight</th><td class="infobox-data">110 kg (17 st; 240 lb)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;province">School</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Cleveland_College" class="mw-redirect" title="John Cleveland College">John Cleveland College</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #b0c4de;">Rugby union career</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox infobox-3cols-child infobox-table"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><b>Position(s)</b></th><td colspan="3" 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title="Leicester Tigers">Leicester Tigers</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 398</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (82)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e0ffff;">International career</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><b>Years</b></th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <b>Team</b></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> <b>Apps</b></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> <b>(Points)</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">1995–2006</th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/England_national_rugby_union_team" title="England national rugby union team">England</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 54</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (0)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/1997_British_Lions_tour_to_South_Africa" title="1997 British Lions tour to South Africa">1997</a>, <a href="/wiki/2005_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_New_Zealand" title="2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand">2005</a></th><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-a" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/British_%26_Irish_Lions" title="British & Irish Lions">British & Irish Lions</a></td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-b" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> 3</td><td class="infobox-data infobox-data-c" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right"> (5)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e0ffff;">Coaching career</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><b>Years</b></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <b>Team</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2007–2008</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Leicester_Tigers" title="Leicester Tigers">Leicester Tigers</a> <i>assistant</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2007–2015</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/England_national_rugby_union_team" title="England national rugby union team">England</a> <i>forwards</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/2013_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_Australia" title="2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia">2013</a>, <a href="/wiki/2017_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_New_Zealand" title="2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand">2017</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/British_%26_Irish_Lions" title="British & Irish Lions">British & Irish Lions</a> <i>forwards</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2018</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Harlequin_F.C." title="Harlequin F.C.">Harlequins</a> <i>forwards</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2018–2019</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Georgia_national_rugby_union_team" title="Georgia national rugby union team">Georgia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2019–2022</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <a href="/wiki/Munster_Rugby" title="Munster Rugby">Munster</a> <i>forwards</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap; font-weight: normal;">2022–2024</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> Munster <i>head coach</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="infobox-full-data" style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold; color: #555; text-align: left;">Correct as of 29 October 2024</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p>  </p><p><b>Graham Christopher Rowntree</b> (born 18 April 1971)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> former player and former head coach of Irish club <a href="/wiki/Munster_Rugby" title="Munster Rugby">Munster</a>. He played <a href="/wiki/Prop_(rugby_union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prop (rugby union)">loosehead prop</a> for <a href="/wiki/Leicester_Tigers" title="Leicester Tigers">Leicester Tigers</a> and <a href="/wiki/England_national_rugby_union_team" title="England national rugby union team">England</a>. He was capped 54 times for England, despite having to compete for his position with one of the world's most capped forwards, <a href="/wiki/Jason_Leonard" title="Jason Leonard">Jason Leonard</a>. Rowntree was born in <a href="/wiki/Stockton-on-Tees" title="Stockton-on-Tees">Stockton-on-Tees</a>. He was educated at <a href="/wiki/John_Cleveland_College" class="mw-redirect" title="John Cleveland College">John Cleveland College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinckley" title="Hinckley">Hinckley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a>, which has also produced other rugby union players. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Graham_Rowntree&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1988 he joined <a href="/wiki/Leicester_Tigers" title="Leicester Tigers">Leicester Tigers</a> from <a href="/wiki/Nuneaton_R.F.C." title="Nuneaton R.F.C.">Nuneaton</a> and made his first-team debut against Oxford University in 1990. He was given the nickname Fruit Pastille Man early in his career, owing to sharing a surname with the confectionery brand that manufactures the well known sweet. For much of that time he was in harness with the famous ‘ABC club’ alongside <a href="/wiki/Richard_Cockerill" title="Richard Cockerill">Richard Cockerill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Darren_Garforth" title="Darren Garforth">Darren Garforth</a>. At Leicester Rowntree enjoyed great domestic success, and started both the <a href="/wiki/2001_Heineken_Cup_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 Heineken Cup Final">2001</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/2002_Heineken_Cup_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Heineken Cup Final">2002</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Heineken Cup finals. </p><p>In 1993 he made his England A, <a href="/wiki/Barbarian_F.C." title="Barbarian F.C.">Barbarians</a> and Midlands debuts, and on 18 March 1995 he gained his first full England cap against <a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_rugby_union_team" title="Scotland national rugby union team">Scotland</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1995_Five_Nations_Championship" title="1995 Five Nations Championship">1995 Five Nations Championship</a> as a temporary replacement for <a href="/wiki/Jason_Leonard" title="Jason Leonard">Jason Leonard</a>. He subsequently played in the <a href="/wiki/1995_Rugby_World_Cup" title="1995 Rugby World Cup">1995 Rugby World Cup</a>. He also made the <a href="/wiki/1997_British_Lions_tour_to_South_Africa" title="1997 British Lions tour to South Africa">1997 British Lions tour to South Africa</a>, playing 6 games and the <a href="/wiki/1999_Rugby_World_Cup" title="1999 Rugby World Cup">1999 Rugby World Cup</a>. </p><p>After the 1999 World Cup Graham was not capped for almost 2 years until a series of fine performances for his club forced him back into international contention. He was prominent throughout the pre-<a href="/wiki/2003_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2003 Rugby World Cup">2003 Rugby World Cup</a> years. He was selected for the England squad to tour Canada and the US in <a href="/wiki/2001_England_rugby_union_tour_of_North_America" title="2001 England rugby union tour of North America">2001</a>, participated in all that season's Autumn internationals — being named as man of the match in England's 21–15 Cook Cup victory over Australia — and started in each of the <a href="/wiki/2002_Six_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Six Nations">2002 Six Nations</a> games. He started in England's 15–13 win over New Zealand in Wellington in <a href="/wiki/2003_England_rugby_union_tour_of_the_Southern_Hemisphere" title="2003 England rugby union tour of the Southern Hemisphere">2003</a> and put in a particularly memorable performance against the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_team" title="New Zealand national rugby union team">All Blacks</a> when England's pack was reduced to just 6 men. Despite playing in the 2003 pre-World Cup trial match in France, Rowntree was omitted from <a href="/wiki/Clive_Woodward" title="Clive Woodward">Clive Woodward</a>'s squad, which won the tournament. <a href="/wiki/Clive_Woodward" title="Clive Woodward">Clive Woodward</a> admitted that leaving Rowntree behind was one of the hardest decisions he had to make in his time as England head coach. </p><p>Rowntree returned to the England side in the <a href="/wiki/2004_Six_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Six Nations">2004 Six Nations</a> and was the first-choice loosehead prop for the <a href="/wiki/2004_end-of-year_rugby_union_internationals" title="2004 end-of-year rugby union internationals">2004 Autumn Internationals</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coaching">Coaching</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Graham_Rowntree&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Coaching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rowntree retired from rugby in 2007 after 17 years playing the 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 <a href="/wiki/2008_Six_Nations_Championship" title="2008 Six Nations Championship">2008 Six Nations Championship</a>. He toured South Africa with the <a href="/wiki/British_%26_Irish_Lions" title="British & Irish Lions">British & Irish Lions</a> in <a href="/wiki/2009_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_South_Africa" title="2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa">2009</a>, acting as scrum coach, before being named forwards coach for the winning test series against Australia in <a href="/wiki/2013_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_Australia" title="2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia">2013</a> and scrum coach for the drawn series with New Zealand in <a href="/wiki/2017_British_%26_Irish_Lions_tour_to_New_Zealand" title="2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand">2017</a>. </p><p>Following the resignation of head coach <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Lancaster_(rugby_union)" title="Stuart Lancaster (rugby union)">Stuart Lancaster</a> on 11 November 2015, newly appointed head coach <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Jones_(rugby_union)" title="Eddie Jones (rugby union)">Eddie Jones</a> sacked the whole coaching team, with Rowntree leaving his post with England after eight years in December 2015. At the end of the <a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_English_Premiership_(rugby_union)" class="mw-redirect" title="2015–16 English Premiership (rugby union)">2015–16 English Premiership season</a>, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Harlequin_F.C." title="Harlequin F.C.">Harlequins</a> had appointed Rowntree as their new forwards coach.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rowntree joined the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_national_rugby_union_team" title="Georgia national rugby union team">Georgian national team</a> in 2018, but left after the <a href="/wiki/2019_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2019 Rugby World Cup">2019 Rugby World Cup</a> to join Irish province <a href="/wiki/Munster_Rugby" title="Munster Rugby">Munster</a> as their new forwards coach.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rowntree signed a two-year contract extension with Munster in January 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, in April 2022, the province confirmed that Rowntree would replace <a href="/wiki/Johann_van_Graan" title="Johann van Graan">Johann van Graan</a> as head coach from the 2022–23 season.<sup id="cite_ref-Rowntree_Head_Coach_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rowntree_Head_Coach-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Munster won silverware in Rowntree's first season as head coach, ending a twelve year trophy drought when they defeated South African side the <a href="/wiki/Stormers" title="Stormers">Stormers</a> 19–14 away from home in the <a href="/wiki/2023_United_Rugby_Championship_final" title="2023 United Rugby Championship final">final</a> of the <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_United_Rugby_Championship" title="2022–23 United Rugby Championship">2022–23 United Rugby Championship</a> on 27 May 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Munster confirmed a two-year contract extension with Rowntree in September 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 October 2024, Munster announced the departure of Rowntree by mutual agreement after four losses in six games in the <a href="/wiki/2024-25_United_Rugby_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="2024-25 United Rugby Championship">2024-25 United Rugby Championship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Graham_Rowntree&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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title="Neil Jenkins">Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Gibbs" title="Scott Gibbs">Gibbs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Greenwood" title="Will Greenwood">Greenwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Guscott" title="Jeremy Guscott">Guscott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Grayson_(rugby_union)" title="Paul Grayson (rugby union)">Grayson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Stimpson" title="Tim Stimpson">Stimpson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Tait" title="Alan Tait">Tait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_Townsend" title="Gregor Townsend">Townsend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Underwood" title="Tony Underwood">Underwood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Coach</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Ian_McGeechan" title="Ian McGeechan">McGeechan</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jim_Telfer" title="Jim 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red, inset -1px -1px 0 red;;width:1%">Backs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Beal" title="Nick Beal">Beal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyran_Bracken" title="Kyran Bracken">Bracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Catt" title="Mike Catt">Catt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Dawson" title="Matt Dawson">Dawson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_de_Glanville" title="Phil de Glanville">De Glanville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Grayson_(rugby_union)" title="Paul Grayson (rugby union)">Grayson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Greenwood" title="Will Greenwood">Greenwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Guscott" title="Jeremy Guscott">Guscott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Healey" title="Austin Healey">Healey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Luger" title="Dan Luger">Luger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Perry_(rugby_union)" title="Matt Perry (rugby union)">Perry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Rees_(rugby_union,_born_1974)" title="David Rees (rugby union, born 1974)">Rees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonny_Wilkinson" title="Jonny Wilkinson">Wilkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Lloyd" title="Leon Lloyd">Lloyd</a> (injury replacement)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martyn_Wood" title="Martyn Wood">Wood</a> (injury replacement)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:white; color:navy; box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 red, inset -1px -1px 0 red;"><div>Head coach: <a href="/wiki/Clive_Woodward" title="Clive Woodward"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:navy">Woodward</span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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