MY LIFE IN PICTURES… STEPHEN JONES

CHANGE OF DIRECTION

“I always knew that I would like to go into coaching but you never know how things are going to pan out. Fortunately, I was given the opportunity by Wasps and Dai Young (in 2013) and I’ll always be grateful for that.

“It helped me that I’d only been there as a player for one year – it might have been different (going from player to coach) had I done three or four years as a player.

“You have to learn a new skill-set – how you teach, how you coach, how you get your point across – and get comfortable with that. I worked with some brilliant players there. Andy Goode was great to deal with, then there were youngsters like Joe Launchbury, Sam Jones, Elliot Daly, Christian Wade… Brilliant people.”

ENJOY THE MOMENT

“It was an amazing experience being a Lion again and winning a Test (after five Test defeats in New Zealand and then South Africa). That series is the one that