RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney says Eddie Jones is under no pressure to hire Englishmen when he looks to revamp his backroom staff.
The England coach is expected to finalise his assistants next month after scrum expert Neal Hatley and attack coach Scott Wisemantel left following the World Cup in Japan.
He could add a third if forwards coach Steve Borthwick also departs.
It has been the case that at least one of England’s backroom team has been English, but Sweeney revealed:
“There hasn’t been any predetermined, ‘You have to have a certain minimum number or a number of English coaches’.
"It’s about what is the best coaching team we could have in place.”
Jones’s contract expires in 2021, two years before the next World Cup, but Sweeney is relaxed about the situation, adding: “I wouldn’t say there is a date in the diary when we say, ‘Right, we have got to make a decision by then, otherwise we are not ready for France’.”
