Australia undaunted by scoreboard pressure and ready for a full 80 minutes | Gerard Meagher

Michael Hooper admits to nerves but says Australia have prepared to play until the final gong strikes and afterThe war of words never materialised this week. Eddie Jones and Michael Cheika have been on their best behaviour; offered no end of long-hops, the pair have shouldered arms at practically every opportunity. Ricky Stuart, the Australian rugby league coach who has spent the week in the England camp, got momentarily caught in some mild cross-fire but short of a small dig from Cheika in response to Jones’s claim that “the typhoon gods were smiling on us”, hostilities have not been renewed.…