Jason Holland rules himself out of vacant Munster head coach role

The Thomond Park favourite is part of the All Blacks set-up preparing to face Ireland on Friday.

GOING DUTCH: All Blacks Assistant coach Jason Holland speaks to the media on Monday. Pic: INPHO/Tom Maher

It’s seven years since Jason Holland expressed an interest in returning to Munster one day in a coaching capacity, but the province’s former centre has no designs on fulfilling that particular ambition just now.

A vacancy for the head coach role opened up early last week with the surprise announcement of Graham Rowntree’s departure six games into the URC season. Holland, in Dublin this week as backs coach with the All Blacks, was quick to nip any tenuous link in the bud.