Eddie Jones clears out red-rose coaching staff ahead of Six Nations

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Borthwick will look after the forwards

Eddie Jones, the new England Rugby head coach, poses at Twickenham Stadium (Getty )

England will have an entirely new coaching line-up under Eddie Jones for the Six Nations Championship, with the departed Stuart Lancaster’s three assistants, Graham Rowntree, Andy Farrell and Mike Catt, all leaving their roles.

Steve Borthwick, the former England captain and lock now coaching at Championship leaders Bristol, will join his former Japan colleague Jones to look after the forwards, although Bristol were understood to be hoping for a job share for the rest of the season.

England gather their squad for training at the end of January through to the Six Nations’ closing matches in the third week of March, after which Borthwick could in theory help complete Bristol’s push for promotion.

Saracens’ Paul Gustard, the former flanker who began his coaching career under Jones while the Australian was at Saracens in the 2008-09 season, will be England’s new defence coach.

Catt’s role was as attacking skills coach and it is thought there may be one more assistant’s role to be filled in Jones’s backroom staff.

It is understood that the existing coaches’ severance terms would be paid up to the end of their one-year rolling contracts in the summer, even though they signed deals up to the 2019 World Cup.

Bristol director of rugby Andy Robinson said on Friday night that it is “far from a done deal” for Borthwick to join England in Jones’s new set-up, but there is no doubt that the RFU will get their man.

Rowntree, a former Leicester and England prop, has seen his reputation as a world-class technical coach dip a little since England’s set-piece problems at the World Cup. But his expected departure owes as much to Jones’s desire to work with people he knows.