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Michael Cheika may have just overseen Australia��s 13th consecutive win over Wales but he was already bristling at the prospect of taking on England on Saturday. ��We understand the pundits over here don��t think we have much of a chance,�� he said. ��They have already given England 3-0 for November. One guy said: ��All respect to Australia, but a decent club side would beat them.�� So I don��t think there is too much for them to worry about. We will prepare every day like we are going to play our best game on Saturday and http://www.nflbengalsofficialshop.com/Nike-Giovani-Bernard-Jersey.html go from there.�� Naturally, when Brandon Tanev Jersey Australia and England meet these days, thoughts turn to the battle of wits between Cheika and Eddie Jones, his old mate from Randwick. Cheika did his best to insist, as ever, that there was nothing in it. ��It is irrelevant. It is Australia versus England, that��s all that counts. It is not about ��fun�� with Eddie. We will have fun on our own in camp, and then we will prepare ourselves each day the best we canFor Wales, the misery of that 13th defeat in a row to opponents they must face again in the pool stages of the World Cup in two years�� time was compounded by the likelihood Jonathan Davies��s autumn is over. ��It looks like an ankle injury,�� Warren Gatland said. ��He��s just being strapped up and is on crutches. It doesn��t look brilliant, but we��ll know more in the next 24 hours.�� To lose a player of such experience from Wales��s new-look midfield would be a terrible blow but Gatland was pleased with how the three players making their home debuts played, as well as the blooding of three new caps from the bench. He rued the controversial try with which Australia took their lead out to 13 at the start of the final quarter while Wales were pressing to retake the lead. Nevertheless, he was not of a mind to make anything of it. ��If Kurtley Beale hadn��t scored that freakish try, there was a good chance we could have won the game. I haven��t had a look at [the knock-on]. Sometimes those decisions go for you. It��s one of those things. I��m not going to dwell on that.�� A run of 13 like that might be enough to disturb some. Wales, though, are adamant there is no mental block for them when it comes to playing Australia. ��No, not at all,�� said their captain, Alun Wyn Jones. ��We showed our attacking approach in spades out there. We need to work on the balance of how, when and where we do that. We don��t want to be doing it in our own 22, because if you give teams like that too much time in your 22 they��ll take those gifts and keep the pressure on. I definitely wouldn��t say it��s a mental block, because we��ve come too close for it to be that. ��We probably should have [won]. We��ve got to stay confident and keep playing this way.��little bit wider, it gives him that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��tlittle bit wider, it gives him that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��t On Saturday, a win against Georgia is non-negotiable, before attention turns to the All Blacks. Their record against them, of course, is even worseAll the talk in the buildup to the start of England��s autumn internationals was how they would perform without Owen Farrell and Maro Itoje. But the biggest miss for Eddie Jones was Billy Vunipola. Eddie was spot on when he said England just didn��t click, but while I thought a lack of cohesion would be understandable there was a fair bit more of it than I expected. And Vunipola��s absence is massive in that respect. Billy is such a huge focal point for England in terms of go-forward. He gives you 15-20 carries a game, it��s always over the gain line, and when you don��t have someone doing that it means you don��t have enough front-foot ballAt times England looked good; when George Ford was able to get on the front foot he could bring players into the game, but it just didn��t happen enough. When Billy is there, it does. He��s their go-to man, he��s their talisman, and I��m not saying Nathan Hughes had a bad game �C because he was actually one of the best players �C but he just doesn��t have the impact that Billy has. ADVERTISEMENTlittle bit wider, it gives him that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��tlittle bit wider, it gives him that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��t That then becomes a problem for the midfield because they can��t get into the game as much as they��d like, and I think we saw that with Henry Slade trying just a bit too hard. He was overeager to impact the game. Because England weren��t getting much of that front-foot ball, he wasn��t able to get the space he wanted. As a consequence, the centres weren��t much of a factor until the end of the game when it opened up a little bit more �C Alex Lozowski came on, got that front-foot ball immediately and all of a sudden they were off. Danny Care was a big part of that, too, as the ball quickened up a bit more. But I would have loved to have seen Slade at 13. I can��t remember the last time I saw him play at 12 �C he seems to have always been 10 or 13 �C and it��s important to bear in mind that it��s a very different position. People think, ��oh, he��s right next to the outside-centre, it shouldn��t be too different��, but it really is. This is a fly-half talking here, but it��s like telling a loosehead to play tighthead because it should be pretty much the same. It doesn��t work like that. Advertisementlittle bit wider, it gives him http://www.officialpittsburghpenguins.com/Adidas-Joe-Mullen-Jersey that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��tlittle bit wider, it gives him that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��tlittle bit wider, it gives him that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��t With Slade at 13 and being that little bit wider, it gives him that bit more room. On Saturday he was right next to Ford and it didn��t seem to work �C the two playmakers cancelled each other out. But having him in the wider channels, influencing things out there, would be great to see. The fact that there is no big ball carrier in the backs only emphasised how much they missed Billy. In terms of the 10-12-13, they��re all much of a muchness really. I know Jonathan Joseph isn��t a 10, but neither he, Ford nor Slade are going to bash down the house. Farrell will, because although he��s a playmaker he��s abrasive, he��s a bit different in that regard. Additionally, if you have someone like Manu Tuilagi or Ben Te��o out there it makes a big difference, because defences have to watch them more. I��m a big fan of that approach, of having another ball player in the midfield, but having the big battering ram in the centres as well. That��s how Samu Kerevi did it for Australia against Wales or Robbie Henshaw for Ireland against South Africa, running these hard lines and opening up extra fractions of seconds for other players �C like a Slade, or an Anthony Watson �C to come into the line. On the plus side for England, defensively they were comfortable, and while Paul Gustard will no doubt be frustrated with Argentina��s late try and a few too many penalties, he��ll be Brandon Tanev Jersey pleased with Sam Underhill. 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