But they might be thwarted - one local newspaper has told Australians to make a noise outside England's hotel all night, or even to set off the fire alarms.
Ian Williams reports from Sydney on the off-pitch games:
Pom-bashing, they say, is a national sport. And this week’s performance has been impressive.
Well “Dad’s army” has an average age of 30, just four years more than the Wallabies.
Jonny Wilkinson, pictured, today practising what he does best. The team unmoved by all the taunts.
But losing to the poms is unthinkable here. Across the airwaves of Rugby-obsessed Australia, comedians and commentators have ridiculing the clinical way England has played.
And the newspapers have been having a field day - full of arrogant poms and their boring rugby.
It’s just a bit of fun, they say. And unbowed, the Sydney papers are preparing for the big day, promising a Grande finale of pom-bashing.
Tens of thousands of English supporters are in Sydney for the game - the barmy army, they call them.
Traditional beach sports have been pushed aside by the oval ball. And remarkably many English fans have been sober enough to read the local papers.
Even the opera house has been bathed in gold for the occasion.
But it’s been raining tonight. And rain’s forecast for tomorrow - conditions ideal for those grumpy old men from the mother country.
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