Ronan O'Gara says that he would be open to coaching England one day.
The former Ireland out-half is currently in charge of Top 14 side La Rochelle. He joined the French team as head coach in 2019, and was promoted to head of the team when Jono Gibbes left his role as director of rugby last year.
"Yeah, it would be a great job I think actually, what a team," O'Gara told BT Sport when asked if he fancied coaching England.
"I think there's so much potential there, serious rugby players, serious passion for the game in England. It's a cracking job. You'd love to have a go off that."
Last season, La Rochelle reached the Top 14 and Champions Cup finals, but lost both games to Toulouse. When it was announced in December that Johann van Graan would be departing as Munster head coach, O'Gara said that he had been contacted about the job but added he would not be breaking his contract with La Rochelle.
"There's some key lessons for people running the sport in how well looked after the Irish players are."
Ronan O'Gara raises an interesting point regarding player welfare with the example of Finn Russell's Six Nations in comparison to Jonny Sexton...#RugbyTonight pic.twitter.com/PweUPH68Kx— Rugby on BT Sport (@btsportrugby) April 3, 2022
Despite England winning just two of their five Six Nations games for the second consecutive year, Eddie Jones is set to continue as head coach for next year's World Cup.
Bill Sweeney, English rugby's chief executive, said last month that they intend to name Jones's successor ahead of the World Cup, and that the replacement will be English.
"We believe we’ve got such a wealth of English coaches in the game,” said Sweeney.
"As a leading rugby nation we should be developing English coaches and an English style of play. That should be long-term and therefore the preference would be to have an English setup as far as I’m concerned.
"We’ve got a war room that’s got every English coach you can imagine – based here and based internationally. We’ve got an advanced succession plan in place."
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