Nathan Hughes is readying himself for the "rough and tough" scrum session with Wales tomorrow as Eddie Jones looks to put his side in "uncomfortable positions" ahead of greater challenges.
Hughes has featured in every England Test match this year, including back-to-back wins over Argentina in the summer. With the Pumas visiting Twickenham next week, the scrum and lineout session against Wales in Bristol will provide extensive preparation.
"There will be a bit of rough and tough with it but it will be good," Hughes told ESPN. "I think it is about putting you in uncomfortable positions, this is probably one of them.
"We are not playing Wales until the Six Nations but it is good to go out there, do our lineouts, driving maul and scrum."
England trained in Portugal last week ahead of their Autumn internationals against Argentina, Australia and Samoa and will look to put what they learnt into practice against Wales.
"[I'm] Looking forward to that one. There's going to be a lot of mauling, lot of scrumming. We didn't get told what we wanted to do in Portugal. Eddie said we were going to do a bit of mauling in the sand, on the beach and everyone just went on with it, went out and gave 100 precent. It was a great session.
"Everyone looked at it and said he put us in uncomfortable positions and everyone came out on top so it was quite good. It is good to challenge yourself, challenge the team and everyone is delivering so far."
England utility back Henry Slade insists that there is always some bite in the training, to prepare them for upcoming tests.
"It would be nice [to have a session with the Welsh backs]. I think, like they say, if there's always a little bit of niggle in training it prepares you for the weekend. But the way we train, there is always a bit of that in sessions anyway, even when we are just training with ourselves.
"We are always trying to push each other as well as we can, but it would be nice to do a bit against the Welsh boys. I'm sure we will come up against them soon enough."
Hughes eyes 'rough and tough' session vs. Wales
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