Meeting between Aviva Premiership clubs and England rugby need not be a fight - Mark McCall

Saracens head coach Mark McCall insisted that the meeting to be held on Thursday between the Premiership Rugby clubs and head coach of England Eddie Jones need not be an agitated one.

The primary agenda of the meeting will remain the intensity at which the England players were trained especially coming from a match weekend in the recently concluded Brighton camp leading to the autumn internationals.

Wasps' Sam Jones is already out of action for the next few months due to an ankle injury while Anthony Watson and Jack Nowell too sustained significant injuries.

With a number of players struggling to train following the conclusion of the training camp, the Aviva Premiership coaches slammed Jones for the method of training adopted in Brighton. McCall, went a step further and criticised Premiership Rugby for giving importance to money at the expense of clubs referring to the recent agreement signed between them and the Rugby Football Union.

Recently, Wasps boss Dai Young urged for better co-operation between the England set-up and the Aviva Premiership clubs and McCall echoed his views.

"It's good to have a face-to-face meeting," McCall said. "I agree with what Dai Young says - this shouldn't be a fight. It doesn't have to be a fight.

"The best thing for both parties is for it to be a real co-operative relationship and there is no reason why it won't be.

"We've had very good co-operation with England and Eddie so far and I don't see that changing.

"My point was people who make these decisions really don't understand performance needs. They could have asked a few directors of rugby whether they thought it was okay to have the camp 10 days before (European fixtures)."

Reports indicate that at least half of the Premiership Rugby clubs will not attend the meeting which will be chaired by Premiership Rugby's director of rugby Phil Winstanley.