England today assembled at Loughborough University for their annual summer training camp.
Fifty-five players will undergo strength and conditioning assessment as well as rugby training and depart at lunchtime on Wednesday.
Leicester prop Dan Cole, Northampton No.8 Sam Dickinson and Bath‘s centre Ollie Devoto will not be involved this week due to injury.
The 33 players for the EPS squad and the 32-man Saxons squad will be announced in October by head coach Stuart Lancaster.
He said: “This camp will give us a chance to get the wider squad together and an opportunity to review the New Zealand tour.
“It will be an important few days for us in terms of complementing the work that the clubs have been doing in pre-season with their strength and conditioning but also from a rugby point of view. The next time we meet will be two weeks before we play New Zealand in the QBE Internationals so this time together is vital.
“In collaboration with Premiership Rugby we have been given the flexibility to announce the England Senior and Saxons squads in October, much closer to our four international matches in November.
“We appreciate their support of our proposal which enables time to assess the first part of the club season and therefore select players who are in form leading into an important series for us. It also allows an opportunity for players not involved in the training camp this week to put down a marker in terms of their performances ahead of the squad announcement.”
England training squad
Loose-head props: Alex Corbisiero (Northampton), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Matt Mullan (Wasps), Mako Vunipola (Saracens)
Tight-head props: Kieran Brookes (Newcastle) , Henry Thomas (Bath), David Wilson (Bath)
Hookers: Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter), Dylan Hartley (Northampton), Rob Webber (Bath), Tom Youngs (Leicester)
Locks: Dave Attwood (Bath), Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton), Geoff Parling (Leicester), Ed Slater (Leicester).
Back rows: Calum Clark (Northampton), Tom Croft (Leicester), Will Fraser (Saracens), James Haskell (Wasps), Tom Johnson (Exeter), Matt Kvesic (Gloucester), Ben Morgan (Gloucester), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Billy Vunipola (Saracens), Tom Wood (Northampton), Jackson Wray (Saracens).
Scrum halves: Danny Care (Harlequins), Lee Dickson (Northampton), Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens), Ben Youngs (Leicester).
Fly halves: Freddie Burns (Leicester), Danny Cipriani (Sale), Owen Farrell (Saracens), George Ford (Bath), Stephen Myler (Northampton), Henry Slade (Exeter).
Centres: Anthony Allen (Leicester), Brad Barritt (Saracens), Luther Burrell (Northampton), Kyle Eastmond (Bath), Jonathan Joseph (Bath), Henry Trinder (Gloucester), Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester), Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester).
Back threes: Chris Ashton (Saracens), Mike Brown (Harlequins), Ben Foden (Northampton), Alex Goode (Saracens), Jonny May (Gloucester), Jack Nowell (Exeter), Chris Pennell (Worcester), Marland Yarde (Harlequins), Christian Wade (Wasps), Anthony Watson (Bath).
