Graham Rowntree: 'There’s a different stress. There’s an expectancy now'

Graham Rowntree is entering his third season as head coach of Munster and is finding the journey to date enjoyable but more stressful that his first season. 

ENJOYABLE YET STRESSFUL: Munster's Head Coach Graham Rowntree is heading into his third season and is finding the journey enjoyable yet stressful. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Ask Graham Rowntree for his thoughts on the upcoming season, his third as Munster head coach, and his answer perfectly encapsulates why he describes the current nature of the role as both enjoyable and more stressful than when he took the job.

URC champions in his first year after a rollercoaster league campaign, losing semi-finalists in year two of the Rowntree project after another go round of ups and downs and the former Leicester and England prop is not expecting his professional life to get any easier in 2024-25.