Today. Kick-off 3.10pm, Allianz Stadium, Twickenham

Tommy Freeman has warned England to clean up their act or be punished by the Wallabies in today’s Nations Championship clash.

With 14 yellow cards and one red this calendar year, England players have spent more time on the naughty step than off it which helped account for their worst Six Nations in history.

Boss Steve Borthwick has been hammering home not just the sin bin message but the silly penalties that England give away.

And the Australians, with centre Len Ikitau returning and flanker Fraser McReight all over the breakdown, will take advantage of any England ill-discipline.

Wing Freeman said: “A lot of it is a concentration thing and with technique, it’s tackle height.

“We don’t want to be giving away penalties like that. There’s stuff we’re doing to make sure we don’t have those lapses of concentration.

“You’ve got to be in the game the whole time. Offside is the easiest penalty you can give away. Offside at a kick, things like that.

“It is just real silly stuff where you’ve just not worked quite hard enough to put yourself in a good position.

“We drive the standards in training and we’ll definitely see an improvement there.”

Australia arrive at HQ having been together since the summer while England, who had two short alignment camps before the current one, have only been in a week.

“They’ve got some serious athletes,” said Freeman.

“They’ve got good pace out on the wide channels and some unbelievable tackling and jackaling threats, so pretty much the whole game.

“And they’re an outfit that’s been together for a while.

“They’re very good in attack. They’re free-flowing, and they kind of go off instinct, which is dangerous.”

Freeman is one of the first names on the team sheet these days but missed out on the last World Cup when he was chopped by Borthwick.

Now a British & Irish Lion, Freeman who made his England debut in 2022 in Australia, was in Borthwick’s training squad for France 2023 but got left out the week before the warm-up games started.

With Anthony Watson injured, Borthwick, instead, took Elliot Daly, Henry Arundell, Jonny May, Max Malins, plus Joe Marchant, to fulfil the duties out wide.

Freeman was on holiday with Northampton Saints team-mate Alex Mitchell when the axe fell, although Mitchell was later called up, but insists Borthwick made the right call at the time – brutal as it may have been for the Northampton man.

The 25-year-old added: “It’s gutting to miss out on the World Cup squad you, think it’s the end of the road and you’re not going to be in England’s future plans.

“But if I’m honest, I think it was probably the best thing for me at that time.

“Now, reflecting on it, I probably wasn’t ready.

“There were things in my game that I definitely needed a lot of work on compared to other players that did go.

“Initially it is heartbreaking and it’s kind of the end of the road and you think the worst.

“I was in the sun somewhere, with Mitch, and then he got called back in. I thought, there’s a chance!”