Former Australian Rugby World Cup-winning coach Bob Dwyer has accused Wallabies assistant coaches Jim Williams and Richard Graham of not doing their jobs.
The Wallabies had been tipped as potential TriNations champions going into the TriNations after an impressive set of June internationals but slumped to five losses out of 6 matches which gave them the wooden spoon in the tournament.
In their final match of the tournament they suffered a big defeat going down 33-6 to the All Blacks on Saturday night which was their sixth straight loss to New Zealand.
Since the Wallabies reached the 2003 World Cup final they have managed just ten victories from 30 matches in the tournament and Dwyer says that he believes there needs to be an urgent focus on teaching players the fundamentals of the game.
"I can't believe that Robbie Deans is not a good coach but equally I can't believe that his coaching staff are doing the job," Dwyer told AAP.
"If they are doing the job, there would be results showing."
Dwyer also had little time for some of the selections that were made during the international season.
"I would say the same about the selectors, some of the selections beggar belief," Dwyer said.
"Who in their right mind ever thought that Richard Brown was a better footballer than Wycliff Palu. What element of his game is better?
"Whoever thought Pek Cowan, who I think is a talented youngster, who thought at this stage of his development that Pek Cowan is an international prop?
"There is no part of his game that is up to international standard, not one single part of his game."
After John Connolly left as Wallaby coach following the 2007 Rugby World Cup New Zealander Deans was appointed as Wallaby coach but despite being labeled as the saviour of Australian rugby has failed to come close to expectations.
The last time Australia had such a bad run was under Eddie Jones before he was sacked at the end of the 2005 season and replaced by Connolly.
Deans is also part of Australia's selection panel with Williams and high performance manager David Nucifora holding the other position.
Dwyer says that believes plenty of talented players were still being produced in Australia and mentioned players such as Matt Giteau, Berrick Barnes, George Smith, Rocky Elsom and Tatafu Polota-Nau.
But Dwyer said that players were falling short in fundamental areas of the game.
"I can't believe that those players have produced those sorts of things at training and not been able to produce them in a game," he said.
"I keep quoting Les Kiss (defence coach), `we have to do the fundamentals so many times and execute them so many times that they become part of our DNA'.
"The fundamentals must become part of your DNA so that you virtually can't do them incorrectly."
The Wallabies poor showing on the weekend meant that they went try less in consecutive matches against the All Blacks for the first time in almost half a century.
Former Test flanker Simon Poidevin said the Australians desperately needed to lift at the breakdown against the All Blacks in their next meeting on October 31 in Tokyo.
"Our Achilles heel right now against the All Blacks is the intensity at the breakdown contest, that is where they have got us every time over the last two or three years and that is where the side really needs to focus on its improvement," he said.
