Stephen Moore welcomes England's 'Bodyline' approach
Australian captain Stephen Moore stated that the Wallabies are well prepared to take on England's new-aggressive approach ahead of the first Test in Brisbane on Saturday.
England coach Eddie Jones has been showing the footages of the famous 1932-33 series to the squad where the England cricket team under Douglas Jardine employed the Bodyline approach to claim Ashes victory in Australia.
The 56-year-old has repeatedly asked England to adopt the aggressive approach on the field and has acquired the services of his long-time friend and former Australian assistant coach Glen Ella as the skills coach for the upcoming series.
Moore, who has made 102 appearances for his country insisted that Australia are confident of combating any amount of aggression from England.
"Test rugby is physical, probably more so than Super Rugby, we know the importance of that, we've prepared for that and we want to make sure that part of our game is solid," Moore said.
"That is one part of the game, but it is an important one. Eddie's always been a great fan of cricket, which is, I guess, why he used that analogy."
Earlier, England prop Dan Cole had said that his team will be aiming to expose the weakness in Australia's scrum during the upcoming Test series.
However, under Michael Cheika, Australia have shown progress at their scrum as evident in the previous encounter between the two teams where Moore's men defeated England 33-13 in the 2015 World Cup.
Playing down Australia's ascendancy at the scrum in the World Cup encounter, Moore admitted there is still work to be done.
"It's a long time ago now. A lot has happened since then and we've got it reset the bar," Moore said.
"We haven't played together as a front row yet this year so this is our first opportunity to get out there and show what it means to us.
"We've worked hard on that part of the game as we did last year. We know how important it is in Test level.
"I think we did a lot of work on that part of our game last year to get to a point but didn't get what we wanted to."
