Thursday 31 October 2019 13:32, UK
What happened to Sam Jones was a complete freak accident and you have to really feel for the lad.
A few people will be questioning the role of judo in these sessions, but we were doing judo with the Leicestershire Police 20 years ago and three weeks ago, we were doing it with Paul Gustard and Maidenhead RFC.
Rugby is a contact sport and you cannot wrap these players up in cotton wool. However, when you have two massive men trying to better the other then sometimes these accidents do happen.
All the coaches will be looking to maintain a healthy squad - they do incredible warm-ups and warm-downs and they do prehab now as well.
It is just the nature of the beast. I have been involved in England teams where these training field injuries happen - Phil Greening did his knee on the training ground during a Lions training session.
You need to look at these training camps and at what Eddie Jones is trying to achieve. He needs to get his players ready for Test rugby, which is a step up from what they are used to in the Premiership.
If you speak to players from the 80s and 90s, they will talk about these long two, three hour training sessions that went on and on at around 70-80% of your heart rate. That is not what you need when preparing for an international.
I was amazed how short the training sessions are now - they train intensively for such a short period of time - a 45-minute session and that is it.
But it has to be at one heck of an intensity. You cannot turn up for a Test match and hope to do something that you have just looked at in the classroom or not trialled at the pace and intensity required. Otherwise, you get into a Test match against, say, South Africa - which is the first one in November - and you walk into a tornado.
Eddie Jones will want to push his players as much as he can, but not at the expense of their physical well-being. He wants to push them mentally, to be prepared for the onslaught of Test rugby and to get the players to demand more from themselves.
