England wary of threat from Australian lock Rory Arnold

Scrum coach Neal Hatley revealed that England have plans devised for the Australian lock Rory Arnold ahead of the first Test between the two teams in Brisbane on Saturday.

Arnold is one of the three Australian players, who is set to make debut against England in the first Test at the Suncorp Stadium and Wallabies coach Michael Cheika believes his 6'10" height can prove handy in disrupting the line-out of their opponent.

The 25-year-old is also set to become the tallest player to have represented the Wallabies beating the previous record held by Dan Vickerman (6'8") and Hatley knows it will be a daunting task for the England team to negate Arnold.

"Arnold poses a definite threat. We've watched some of the clips from him from the Currie Cup in South Africa all the way through to the Brumbies," Hatley said.

"It's going to be hard work to negate him, but we've put things in place that hopefully will be able to sort that out."

England coach Eddie Jones has insisted the red rose team to play the 'Bodyline' approach in Australia and has even hired the services of former Australian assistant coach Glen Ella to help the team adopt the attacking game-play.

Hatley, who left Bath after the 2015-16 season to join England as a scrum coach believes playing with aggression will be key when facing a relentless team like Australia.

"We've worked ridiculously hard. It's going to be confrontational and that's what it's about in international rugby, especially at the set piece," said Hatley, who reported a clean bill of health for the first Test.

"We'll have to be unbelievably tough and hopefully that will set the platform for what's to come after that.

"We will have a tough and uncompromising approach. Bodyline for us is about changing what we do and presenting a different picture."