"We've got a team at the moment that can't catch and can't pass. Wallaby teams in the past were never like this. Anyone who knows anything about Australian rugby knows what it's famous for - loops, angles, switches, counter-attack, creative play."

Harsh words from the mouth of one of Australia's best-ever players, David Campese, that should serve as a grim warning to head coach Robbie Deans 
about the current state of the side he's in charge of.

But is he right to question Deans' methods and openly suggest he is not the right man to lead the Wallabies forward?

Certainly, it is fair to say Australian rugby is in the doldrums at the minute and they do not have an air of invicibility around them that was no prominent 
when Campese was pulling the strings and scoring for fun back in the 80s and 90s.

The Wallabies began their four-match European tour with defeat against France in Paris last Saturday and now head to Twickenham this weekend 
hoping to avoid a third straight reverse against old rivals England, though the latest Rugby Union Betting suggests they may not. 

The stats do not get much better upon closer inspection, either. Australia have managed just 12 tries in 12 Tests, they lost at home to Samoa last year and then 
famously to Scotland when Andy Robinson's side also took advantage of a blunt forward line. Then they roused themselves to win in Argentina and drew 
with the All Blacks. 

However, any thoughts that the Wallabies were waking from their slumber were firmly put to bed when they were outplayed, outfought and and out-thought in THAT 33-6 capitulation to France last time out.

It's that chastening defeat which has led former Test winger Campese to stick the boot in on head coach Deans, going as far as claiming he has "destroyed Australian rugby".

As Will Greenwood said in his latest column, this is not to say they do not possess enough talent to again emerge from their current low to see off an England team in transition at Twickenham, but the knives are clearly out for Deans and it appears he has a tough job to win over his critics from here.

 
Fit-again wing Digby Ioane returns to boost the Australia side in one of four changes made by Deans for Saturday's Test against the Red Rose but no-one would be
overly surprised if they slump to another defeat in London - a fact in itself which shows just how far they have fallen in the past 12 months or so.

Campese's outburst will likely be ignored in the Wallabies' dressing room but could also serve as a much-needed wake-up call to some players, who have struggled
to impose themselves in big matches.

Deans will have to do his very best to inspire a squad that looks weighed down by stiff criticism, gripped by an apparent lack of confidence and reeling from poor recent results. 
Campese, though, has already made up his mind and says, clearly: "I want him to go".

Another heavy defeat this weekend, and he might just get his way.