Scrum and forwards coach Tony Windo has penned a new three-year deal with the Worcester Warriors.

The 40-year-old former prop, who was due to be out of contract at the end of this season, will remain with the backroom team at Sixways until at least 2013.

Windo, who featured in more than 400 first team games for Gloucester and Worcester during his successful playing career, retired from the field in 2008 and joined Warriors in the full-time coaching role.

"I always found it a great honour to play for Warriors," said Windo.

"I thoroughly enjoyed my ten years as a player and now, as a member of the coaching team, I remain determined to give something back to a club that has already given so much to me.

"As a player my target was to get the club into the Guinness Premiership, not only have we achieved that aim, we have become an established member of the English top-flight.

"My challenge as a coach is to now see the club reach the potential it richly deserves and to win some silverware and compete at the highest level and get into Europe.

"I'm delighted to have signed the new contract and my aim now is to try and develop a ruthless set of forwards at the Warriors that will help us achieve our aims."

Worcester director of rugby Mike Ruddock hailed Windo and the influence he has had at Sixways, particularly on the club's rising stars.

"Part of developing the 'Worcester Way' at the Warriors is through the promotion of younger players from the academy, people like Miles Benjamin, Matt Mullan and Tom Wood who are all now regular fixtures in the first team," said Ruddock.

"We also want to promote great servants to the club from playing positions to coaching positions and Tony Windo represents everything that is good about Worcester Warriors.

"He's been a fantastic player for the club, very reliable and dependable. Now he is a first-class coach."