HALLAM Amos says that fellow Newport Gwent Dragons young gun Jack Dixon belongs at Test level after making the breakthrough into Warren Gatland's World Cup training squad.

Dixon has been rewarded for a superb second half of the season by being called up to the 47-strong group for England 2015.

The uncapped 20-year-old from Newbridge is an outsider for a place in Gatland's final 31 given that Jamie Roberts is a shoo-in at 12 with Scott Williams, George North, Cory Allen and Tyler Morgan as midfield options.

But Dixon, who played in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Junior World Championships, has been on the radar of the Welsh management for some time and a call-up would have happened years ago were it not for unfortunate timing of injuries.

Amos is certainly no Test veteran – the 20-year-old has just one cap to his name, won against Tonga in autumn 2013 – but has spent plenty of time in Gatland's squad.

And he isn't surprised that his clubmate has taken to the set-up like a duck to water as World Cup preparations are ramped up at the National Centre of Excellence.

"It looks like he is settling in really well and doing well in the fitness," said the wing/full-back.

"Jack's a great player, I've played with him for the best part of a decade now (from Dragons age-grade teams) and he has always upped his game to whatever level he is at.

"I'm sure he would have been in past squads were it not for injury but it's great that he will now be playing at the level where he deserves to be."

Wales travel to Switzerland on Wednesday for the first of their rigorous training camps where Amos knows the conditioning team will "really start turning the screw".

The wing admitted last week that he can't wait to try and force his way into the XV for the two Tests against Ireland in August, a target aided by Liam Williams' foot injury, but knows that first he must get through the necessary evil of fitness toil.

"We are not looking at the games yet and haven't done any tactical rugby stuff, we've done skills under fatigue but the focus has been on the camps rather than warm-up games," he said.

"Some of the boys love the running but I'm not a fan of the fitness and would much rather get down to the rugby but this is the modern game and it will help those boys who make the final squad when they get to the tough end stages of matches."