Ben Earl has called for a alteration to the Nations Championship format aft England's "brutal" docket successful the summertime limb of the inaugural competition.
England had to play 3 Tests successful 3 antithetic continents connected successive weekends and accumulated 25,000 miles of travel.
Victory implicit Argentina connected Saturday keeps Steve Borthwick's squad successful the hunt for a spot successful the last connected 29 November astatine Twickenham's Allianz Stadium.
However, 4 agelong haul and 4 abbreviated haul flights successful the past 4 weeks person contributed to players losing slumber and a reduced grooming schedule.
"It's been brutal, there's nary 2 ways astir it," England fig 8 Earl said.
"We've been speaking astir it – wherefore would we not each beryllium playing successful 1 country? So you conscionable don't travel, you spell to 1 federation and person that festival feel.
"I'm not paid to marque those decisions but it has been tough. It's been pugnacious coming astatine the extremity of what's been rather a agelong play anyhow for astir of us.
"It's been backmost and forth, coming backmost to England, seeing your families and past going distant again.
"It has seemed a spot weird but it's conscionable thing we're going to person to get utilized to due to the fact that I deliberation it's conscionable the beginning."
The contention resumes aboriginal successful the twelvemonth for the autumn limb with England adjacent successful enactment against Australia connected 8 November.
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