Monday 19 October 2015 14:47, UK
Australia coach Michael Cheika had little sympathy with Scotland over the disputed penalty that put his side into the World Cup semi-finals.
The Aussies ran in five tries at Twickenham but needed a last-minute Bernard Foley kick to secure a dramatic 35-34 win and set up a last-four tie with Argentina.
There were boos at the end over Craig Joubert's decision to penalise Jon Welsh for deliberately handling the ball while offside, a call that looked questionable as replays suggested the ball rebounded to Welsh off Australia's Nick Phipps.
Cheika conceded the Wallabies had enjoyed "a pretty good escape" overall but said of the penalty: "You have to live with the ones you get and the ones you don't. It is what it is and you just deal with it.
"Because of some things that have happened to me in the past, I've become quite neutral on the topic of referees."
Cheika also admitted he may have been "naive" in asking his players to persist with an expansive approach rather than shut the match down but said he did not want to compromise the Aussies' "identity".
"Although we've got massive improvements [to make] in certain areas, our try-scoring ability was there. We went after it like we continue to go after it, and we didn't go to a kicking game.
"And - you know what? - maybe that's a bit naive from me, maybe we shouldn't have opened it up for them, but we want to play the way our identity tells us and [stick with] what we represent, and that's to play running footy."
