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Champ Rugby winners Worcester Warriors have appointed former England, Harlequins and Wasps forward Joe Launchbury as their new head of academy.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 35-year-old retired from playing at the end of the regular Prem season<\/a> after three years with Quins and 51 appearances.<\/p>\n Launchbury won 70 caps for England, winning the Six Nations title three times and playing in two World Cups.<\/p>\n The bulk of his playing career was spent with Wasps, where he made more than 150 appearances in two spells.<\/p>\n He was with the club as it went into administration in October 2022,<\/a> shortly after Worcester suffered the same fate<\/a> before Warriors returned to the sport<\/a> at the start of last season.<\/p>\n Worcester’s first campaign back was a spectacular success on the field, with them thrillingly beating season-long Champ leaders Ealing on their way to winning the play-off final.<\/a><\/p>\n Launchbury said he was “really honoured” to get the job adding Worcester was “a club with a huge amount of history, especially in the academy area”.<\/p>\n “Working with the next generation, working with these younger players definitely excites me, and the opportunity to come here to Worcester was something I didn’t want to turn down,” he told the club website., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n