Australia coach Michael Cheika unsure on attending meeting with referee Jaco Peyper

Australia head coach Michael Cheika stated that he is yet to decide on whether he will be attending England boss Eddie Jones' meeting with referee Jaco Peyper ahead of the high voltage clash at Twickenham on Saturday.

Jones had requested for a discussion with Peyper to address the scrummaging technique employed by the Wallabies which did not go well with Cheika, who later targeted England prop Dan Cole.

The recent exchange of words between the former Randwick team-mates, Cheika and Jones, had escalated the tension for the Saturday's game and the Wallabies coach insisted that he has no intention of influencing referee unlike his counterpart.

Asked if he would attend Friday's meeting with referee Peyper, Cheika said: "I don't know, we'll wait to see if the referee tells us what time it's on.

"I think they may have but I'm not sure as yet what the story is.

"And then we'll decide whether we're going to go.

"But I think we're probably just better off letting them have their own meeting, and see if they can influence the referee that way through having the meeting.

"I don't think there's anything I can do to influence the referee, so we're better off just maybe staying quiet and letting them have the meeting themselves.

"I don't know, I'll see how I go tomorrow."

Earlier, Cheika had accused Jones of tarnishing his image in Australia, which is his country of birth and urged him to stop playing smokescreen by criticising the scrummaging technique of Wallabies to hide the deficiencies in his own team.

"I think he's done that to take the heat off his own scrum: it's pretty logical, it's the oldest trick in the book," said Cheika, when quizzed on Jones' criticism of Australia's scrummage.

"You know what I mean: 'Oh I don't want them looking at ours so I'll point to someone else's', you know?

"At the end of the day what goes on on the field is what's going to count.

"But that's why I'd say he's done it."