THE process behind Eddie Jones' selection as England’s new head coach remains flawed, according to Worcester Warriors chief Dean Ryan.

Jones officially begins work as England head coach today with the identity of his assistants the most pressing item on the agenda.

Jones has carte blanche to wield the RFU's chequebook to build his preferred coaching line-up.

Ryan said he didn’t have an issue with Jones’ selection but the method by which Jones was appointed.

He felt Stuart Lancaster was right to leave his post after England’s failure to qualifying for the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

But Ryan believes questions still need be asked about the people who were in charge of appointing England's new supremo.

The first thing the English RFU should have done, according to Ryan, was to decide the direction they wanted the national team to head in.

“My issues have been around the process and the process that was undertaken has confirmed my issues,” said Ryan.

“Eddie Jones is the England coach now and that’s not an issue for me or anybody else.

“Now we have got Eddie I have not got any issues with that.

“People should not get blinded by the decisions made over the last 12 years just because we have the golden glow of a new coach over an optimistic Six Nations.

“The process sat behind that selection still wasn’t right.

“I don’t know Eddie and I am just in the same danger as everybody else who is speculating.

"I don’t know the bloke. I didn’t interview him and I don’t know him.”

Warriors full-back Chris Pennell missed out on selection for the World Cup but is hoping hard work could propel him into the England reckoning for the Six Nations.

Ryan said: “Chris Pennell will be a bit frustrated he hasn’t played as well as he would have wanted.

“I think we have spent a lot of time under pressure with field position in games so he’s got to understand his patience as well as his opportunity to show how well he can play.”

Ryan didn’t think Lancaster’s ill-fated England squad “was a million miles away from the best 31 players in the country”.

"There might be two or three people you would change,” said Ryan.

“We have to keep things in context while everybody plays the game and says another 25 players should be coming in.

“Roughly, that England squad contained the best players in England.

“The selection of the best 15 was probably an undermining factor of England's World Cup but when you name a 31-man squad everybody seems to take great joy in adding another 25 names.

“It will be interesting to see what the changes will be. I don’t think they will be wholesale changes. I am as intrigued as anyone else about what the changes will look like.”