Pumped Poms ready for brutal match Date: November 17 2012 Gavin Mairs LONDON: England have been ramping up the intensity on and off the field as they prepare for the Test against Australia at Twickenham on Saturday. The players were still feeling the bruises on Thursday two days after the most brutal training session of coach Stuart Lancaster's tenure, which was designed to ensure that the squad meet head-on the expected Wallaby backlash. As the players recovered, fullback Alex Goode was savouring the rivalry of this particular contest. ''I grew up watching the Aussies stick it to us in pretty much every sport, handing out verbals in that confident way they have,'' Goode said. ''It's about us now as a team taking it to them.'' Lancaster described the Tuesday training session as ''the best that I have seen'', while the players spoke with enthusiasm of the intensity of the collisions, one of which left lock Tom Palmer requiring stitches to a cut near his eye. ''It was up there in intensity in any of the sessions that I have seen,'' Lancaster said. ''I don't think we will be lacking for that. We had 30-odd players training - including some very good players who aren't in the squad - and we had 15 on 15 and it was very, very competitive. ''You look for tell-tale signs through the week of anxiety or complacency or overconfidence. Tuesday told me we won't be lacking. We'll be ready for them.'' Prop Joe Marler said