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Northampton Saints hooker Dylan Hartley is set to be confirmed as England captain by Eddie Jones on Monday.

The 33-man England squad met on Sunday evening at Pennyhill Park and Jones is expected to address the senior group on Monday morning before then facing the press in the afternoon, where confirmation of Hartley's appointment is due to be announced.

The announcement will see Hartley replace Chris Robshaw as captain and lead England into their first Six Nations under Jones.

Hartley has won 66 caps for England but that total could have been far higher but for his poor disciplinary record. He has spent a total of 54 weeks suspended in his career with the bans seeing him miss the 2007 and 2015 Rugby World Cups and the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour.

But Jones sees Hartley as the ideal player to get some bite back into England's pack after they struggled in the previous World Cup. England's Six Nations opener against Scotland on Feb. 6 is likely to be Hartley's first Test match since last year's championship and he said in his column for The Sun last week that he is not taking the captaincy for granted.

"I'm nearly 30 and I know I am not the finished article," he wrote. "Not being selected and everything that has happened in the past also motivates me more than ever. But before the Six Nations squad was even named I woke up one morning and heard all the stuff about the captaincy.

"No matter how much I try not to read into the hype - I don't have Twitter on my phone or anything like that - it got back to me that my name had been mentioned. It would of course be an honour to do it again but I'm not getting carried away by it.

"I led out the boys once when we drew against South Africa in Port Elizabeth in 2012. I just need to make sure I'm on that teamsheet before worrying about anything else. I just need to keep my head down and show my strengths out on the pitch."

For Jones, he expects his captain to be one of his closest confidents and also one of the first names on the teamsheet.

"Your captain's got to be your best player," Jones said earlier in January. "He's got to be one of the first selected in the team, and then he's got to lead by example. He needs to set standards for the team in terms of how we operate off the field, how we operate on the field, and he's got to be a conduit between the coaching staff and the players.

"Him and I are going to work so closely together. He is the coach of the team, he has got to be making that decision for the team on the field. We will probably be working more closely together than I will be with the other coaches."