Michael Cheika concerned more about Wallabies and not Eddie Jones

Wallabies lock Rob Simmons and fly-half Bernard Foley insisted that head coach Michael Cheika is more focussed on getting Australia back on track on the field rather than targeting England coach Eddie Jones ahead of their clash at Twickenham on Saturday.

Ever since he reached London, Cheika's major target in media conferences was his counterpart Jones as he accused the 56-year-old of tarnishing his own image in the country of birth.

Jones' decision to meet referee Jaco Peyper to address the scrummaging technique employed by the Wallabies did not go well with Cheika either as he slammed the England boss of deceiving the match officials from the illegal scrum technique employed by Leicester Tigers prop Dan Cole escalating the tensions between the two sides.

"Well you haven't seen anything, if you reckon Cheik's fired up in a media conference," said Wallabies lock Rob Simmons, of Cheika's famous no-nonsense coaching approach.

"I haven't really noticed any difference in his mood, because he gets stuck into us forwards every day."

Australia had a promising start to their European tour where they won against Wales, Scotland and France before their chance of Grand Slam went dashing with 27-24 defeat to Ireland last weekend.

Foley, 27, said that Cheika is more frustrated at the performance of the Australian team against Ireland than verbal exchange with Jones.

"I think Cheik's pretty fired up in every meeting we have with him, so there's not much change there," said Foley.

"He's far more disappointed over the loss on the weekend.

"We watched the review yesterday and it wasn't that pretty. We left a lot of opportunities out there and left a lot of chances that we just didn't take.

"And that was the disappointing thing.

"It took us 35 minutes to get into the game. Against a quality side like Ireland you can't afford to do that.

"We created a lot of opportunities and we didn't start playing footy until half an hour in, or that second half.

"So that's something we've addressed and have to be better at.

"When this side's playing good footy we match it with anyone in the world.

"But we have to do that for the full 80 minutes rather than just one half of rugby; that's not enough at this level.

"It's such a big occasion playing England at Twickenham, they are going really well, and it's a great challenge for us. So that's where the excitement comes from."

Foley was instrumental in Australia's World Cup 2015 win over England that knocked the hosts out of the high profile tournament. However, last summer England whitewashed Wallabies for the first time in Australia 3-0 drawing a lot of criticism on Cheika and his men.

The fly-half denied the idea of labeling Saturday's match as a revenge game but insisted that Wallabies are a improved side since the last time the two teams met.

"A lot of guys were on debut or in Test footy for the first set-up back in June," said Foley, in a year where Australia have handed out 13 debuts.

"So just as a squad being able to gel real combinations, and just spend time together, that's been massive for us.

"This year's been very character-building for this side, and I think that's shown.

"I think guys will walk away from this year having learnt a lot and will be far better in the future because of it.

"We've matured a lot and now need to reap the benefits of that."