AN EMOTIONAL Wallabies forwards coach Michael Foley described the Twickenham triumph as the moment when his Test pack "effectively buried a demon".

Not surprisingly, Foley was ecstatic over the Australian scrummaging performance, which involved two tighthead scrum wins and several penalties going their way, along with comprehensively outpointing a pack that for the past three seasons has delighted in embarrassing the Wallabies.

After being ridiculed in the British media all week, the Wallabies' get-square was big, with the visiting pack's performance a prime reason England fell well short.

"I am so pleased for all of the Australian forwards, because they gave themselves a real clarity of what they are capable of," Foley said. "You meet up with New Zealand and South African players a lot in the Super 14, but to come over here and venture into largely unknown territory, which has been an unhappy stamping ground for us in recent years, and to perform like they did, well, we are all just so proud to share it with them.

"They were absolutely outstanding. I was so rapt for them, especially for someone like Al Baxter, who had been maligned for so long. Stephen Moore went through a very difficult time with the World Cup quarter-final last year, and then to come here and play the way they did was fantastic for him.

"Going forward, their attitude will be that there is no doubt they are good enough, which has not necessarily been straightforward, considering the hard time they had during early phases of their career."

Foley's involvement with the Wallabies will end following this tour when he moves across to the Waratahs. All the Wallabies forwards say a major reason for their improvement is the amount of work Foley has devoted to getting their set piece right. All three front-rowers - Baxter, Moore and Benn Robinson - often mention Foley and his importance. No wonder there was a strong embrace between the four in the dressing rooms after the game. The toil had been worth it.

"This was satisfying more than anything else," Baxter said on Sunday. "We've always had a fair bit of confidence in our ability, because we've been scrummaging reasonably well all year. And all the comments made about us in the press were in the end really just fluff on the side. We weren't really concerned about the history, because we feel we're a new side and have moved on."

Moore credited a lot to their training. "We've done an enormous amount of work on our technique," he said. "Once you bed that down, you get the attitude out on the field, and it is amazing the results you can achieve. I knew we'd scrummage well. We all did, and that was the key. And there was a real rush of emotion at full-time."

Robinson explained the richness of the reward, saying: "When we walked off, it was just a surreal moment."