Maro Itoje is urging rugby bosses to act now to prevent the drain of top English rugby talent overseas from becoming a flood.
Itoje and Marcus Smith are the latest England stars to be weighing up what to do when their current contracts expire.
Jack Nowell, Joe Marchant, Sam Simmonds, David Ribbans and Luke Cowan-Dickie have already decided to jump ship - making them unselectable under England’s policy of only picking from the Premiership.