Tough night: Skipper Michael Hooper reacts to another All Blacks try. Credit:AAP "I can't overestimate how angry I am at seeing an Australian team have skills that are non-existent," said Lynagh on Sky Sports. "Passing and catching and making tackles and trusting the bloke beside you are pretty basic even at schoolboy level. Australia has had a month to work together to try and create stuff and do things and they come up with that in the first 40? Very, very disappointing." Cheika conceded Australia's defence was not at the standard of an international team. "It was pretty plain to see that our defence wasn't good enough at all," Cheika said. "With adherence to the way we want to defend, plus also the tackling in itself, it's got to be better. It's not the level you can be at [at] all in any game, let alone a game against them. "It's not attitude, it's just maybe that little bit of doubt creeps in.

Too easy: Ryan Crotty makes a break through the threadbare Australian defence. Credit:AAP "There's no one-two step process for that type of stuff, that comes down to a deep belief between players. You have to acknowledge what you did wrong first of all and then say, 'OK, we've got to fix those things and go and do it'. This group of players here, they've got a very strong connection." Grey, who is in charge of the defence portfolio, has been under pressure this year at the Waratahs after they recorded their worst year on record from a defensive viewpoint. Scything through: Ben Smith leaves defenders in his wake. Credit:AAP From four Tests this year, the Wallabies have conceded 132 points – an average of 33 per game.

Asked whether Grey had his support, Cheika replied: "100 per cent". Lynagh also took a swipe at Wallabies captain Michael Hooper and Nick Phipps in the wash-up. "The thing that lingers with me is the first half, how poor that was," Lynagh said. "Michael Hooper there seemed pretty content with the second half and that we scored a few tries. We still lost by 20 points at the end of the day and at half-time we were 40 points down. "That's an international halfback Nick Phipps; passing one ball to his right and it goes above a bloke's head. It was just so poor. "The simple skills of passing and tackling were non-existent in the first half and that's very worrying."