Club, Country relationship is good in England - Dai Young

Wasps boss Dai Young insisted that the relationship between the Aviva Premiership clubs and England national team will continue to be on the right side despite the recent argument over the Brighton camp training.

England coach Eddie Jones came under heavy criticism from the Aviva Premiership clubs' bosses following the three-day training camp in Brighton, where a number of players got injured due to the high intensity of the training.

Sam Jones, Anthony Watson and Jack Nowell were the latest casualties from the camp while a number of other players struggled to train following the three-day programme. Saracens head coach Mark McCall slammed the Premiership Rugby and also Jones, questioning the timing of the training camp ahead of the European competitions.

A meeting held between Aviva Premiership clubs and Jones on the issue ended on a positive note and Young admitted that they have sorted out the differences.

"Obviously Eddie's always going to back his corner and we're always going to back ours; we have slightly different agendas," said Young.

"But when it comes to player welfare and looking after players we've got the same agenda.

"From our point of view it will be doing nobody any good for us to be falling out with the national set-up. And to be honest I don't ever really see that happening, not in this day and age.

"We all realise that and as I said you can't have a bigger brother in this situation.

"We've got to be equals and coming out of that meeting I didn't feel anything other than this is a relationship that will continue and will not be a problem."

Exeter boss Rob Baxter also expressed his frustration on the workload assigned to Nowell by Jones considering the 23-year-old was recovering from a thumb injury.

At the conclusion of the meeting in London, both Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby released press statements ensuring both the clubs and the country will continue to co-operate with each other for the welfare of the players.

Even though the Brighton camp issue was the major focus of discussion during the meeting, Young is confident both clubs and country will continue to have a strong relationship with each other.

"The meeting was hijacked a little bit by a lot of things that went on in the camp, because that meeting was pencilled in for a long time," said Young.

"It wasn't a showdown meeting, that was never the case, it was always arranged for Eddie to come along and discuss what his plans were.

"It was an excellent meeting, what we expected, and the previous meetings I've had with Eddie have always been positive and respectful from both parties.

"I totally respect what England want to do and try to support that as much as we can.

"I've never had anything back the other way that wasn't replicated from their side.

"So they obviously had a couple of unfortunate incidents where people got injured but people do get injured, as in any training.

"From our point of view it's part and parcel of sport and these things happen.

"Leaving that meeting everyone was totally confident that we don't see any problems in the relationship moving forward."