Cheika: We will not 'scrounge' wins
The Wallabies came under fire for missing a bonus point in their opening 28-13 victory over Fiji in a pool that also includes fellow big guns England and Wales.
Cheika again revealed his hard-nosed approach to coaching by saying his focus was entirely on the Wallabies and not upcoming fixtures against England and Wales at Twickenham.
"I don't know how they'll be, that's their business," the coach said when asked about what he expected from England, beaten 25-28 by Wales on Saturday and currently third in Pool A.
"We are going to have to improve some of the pieces of our game so that we can get to the standard that we need to be at for the game."
Cheika added that he had no time for talk of bonus points.
"No one's won the World Cup unless they've won every game. I've never been here before but I figured that's what you've sort of got to do. I'm not being a smart-alec, our plan is not to just scrounge through, we've got to just play well every game and let the results take care of themselves.
"We're not sitting in front of the TV barracking for one team or the other. We are making assessments and looking at how we can improve our own game because let's be honest, we're going to have to improve from the first two matches to be able to compete with England," he added.
Australia outplayed Uruguay across the park, running in 11 tries for a 65-3 victory to give them a healthy +77 points difference atop Pool A.
A raft of handling errors from what was essentially a second-string Wallaby team meant the final score was kinder on the South Americans than it might have been.
"It was a pretty rugged game," said Cheika.
"The South Americans play the game physical and they've no shortage of desire. They came hard at us and I think we wanted to play the game in the physical manner as well. So I enjoyed that part of the game.
"But I think we've still got a lot of improvement, we probably left too many opportunities behind and we need to try and improve every day to get to the standard we want to be at."
AFP
