England v Wallabies Preview: Can Australia deny England a record-equalling win?

England coach Eddie Jones – an Australian – began the back and forth, saying he would seek a meeting with referee Jaco Peyper ahead of the game at Twickenham to address what Jones perceives are the Wallabies’ illegal scrummaging techniques.

It has been a week of verbal grenades with Jones starting the war of words on Saturday with comments over Australia’s scrum.

Down through the years the pair have always been good value for providing soundbites but do you remember who said what?

“The only danger for us is letting complacency set in”, Brown said.

Wilkinson has worked in the England camp this year as a part-time kicking and skills coach, and was part of the side that won 14 straight matches from 2002-2003, a record England can equal this weekend.

Apart from the sideshow involving Michael Cheika and Jones that has been played out in the media, there is unmistakable intensity about the Wallabies on the training paddock in London.

“With that World Cup teams have got so long to prepare and we had three or four months of preparation together as a squad to come together and at the time it is the biggest thing you can do”.

In the lead up to Australia’s last match of 2016 against England, Cheika hit back at comments made from Ella that he is still having “nightmares” about being whitewashed in June.

“(I learned in June) that Test footy’s a matter of margin”, he said.

Jones, the former Wallabies coach now in charge of England, indicated from the get-go he would organise a meeting with Peyper to iron out a few “issues” in relation to Australia’s “illegal” scrummaging that was on display against France. I think we’ve improved and we’re going well and we’ll stay working on our things and when the bigger tournaments come around we’ll see if that plan worked out or not for both sides.

“We’ve extended an invitation to Cheika, so it will be up to him whether he accepts it or not. I’m not too anxious about who is going to attend”.

England are expected to name their team to face Australia on Thursday British time.

Cheika started the week on the front foot by questioning Jones’s legacy, after previously adopting a low-key approach during the 3-0 series loss in Australia.

“I don’t know if he’s bitter”.

Cheika repeated his claim that Jones had attacked Australia’s scrum as a way of diverting attention from England’s set-piece problems.

“I’m not telling him what to do”.

As someone who upset an bad lot of people in his career, I can say that Eddie knows exactly what buttons to press.

“I like a winger with pace and I like a winger with work rate”, said Jones.

“My brief encounters off the field with him as well, he’s been a really great bloke and more importantly on the field he’s a fierce competitor, which I love”.