“We have a good solution here in England. There are high-quality clubs that are well-resourced with good coaching staff, good strength and conditioning coaches and good facilities. If we can work with them to make sure the players are doing the things they need to do to be at their best for the club and for their country then we have a good ­solution. We can cope with any ­difference. And then it comes down to whether we have enough talent and desire to do it. We are now ­looking ahead rather than looking at what’s happened.

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“Each player has an individual plan and we have just got to make sure the clubs agree with it. It is a process that has started today and which will continue over the next couple of weeks.”

Jones is booked in for visits to Bath, Saracens and Northampton as he looks to liaise with personnel there over individual programmes for each of their players in the ­England squad.