Rugby Australia, Wallabies on Gilligan's Island, not the real world

"For gorsake, stop laughing, this is serious!"

Australia's most famous cartoon is Stan Cross's 1933 depiction of two workers involved in a building construction. There has been a mishap, and one is hanging onto a girder hundreds of metres in the air. His mate, to stop himself from falling, has grabbed onto the other one's trousers, pulling them down to his ankles, and is now looking upwards convulsed with laughter.

Replace the hanging man's shirt with a Wallabies jersey, and you have the complete picture of the mess Rugby Australia has got itself into - through no fault but its own. Rugby Australia has been caught with its pants down.

We have just witnessed another pathetic, no make that completely humiliating Bledisloe Cup campaign, where in just over a week Australian rugby has been exposed as second rate in so many areas - preparation, motivation, skill level, tactics, player selection, endeavour and application.

And with it died in the wool Australian rugby followers are walking away in their droves.

Sadly many won't come back. There is only so much puerile rubbish sane people can endure, especially as the All Blacks could have easily won by almost 50 points at Eden Park on Saturday night as they had three tries disallowed against a mob rudely awakened from their island resort slumber. And the All Blacks were without four of their leading players: Sonny Bill Williams, Ryan Crotty, Dane Coles and Rieko Ioane.

To add to the stupidity those brainless dolts at Rugby Australia send out an email at 8.30am Sunday morning telling the kiddies to "Give Dad something special for Father's Day! Tickets to the Rugby Championship."

Hey you clowns, the Wallabies have no hope in the Rugby Championship. It's all over. Only a kid who detests his father would even consider buying him Wallaby Test tickets.

Really, who is running Rugby Australia ala SS Minnow. Gilligan. Definitely not the Professor?

For such inanity there must be casualties, and quite a number of casualties. The call was made here this time last week that Michael Cheika and his support staff must be replaced.

Nothing has changed. It has just become far more urgent. The changes should now be even more widespread, as the motives of numerous others on handy salaries at Rugby Australia must also be questioned, because they are not providing value for money.

The debate last week over whether Cheika deserved to go was sadly blunted by those crowding and pushing each other off the media soapbox either being too closely aligned to the national coach, the players, the staff or with the cash-cow known as Rugby Australia.

This was Pravda media propaganda 101. Mates scratching other mate's backs.

It turned Monty Pythonish, with those from Rugby Australia's whiz bang high performance unit being wheeled out to vehemently defend Cheika. Wow what a shock. That's like asking Elvis Presley's mum to speak glowingly of her son's version of Love Me Tender.

The focus should be more on what those on the high performance and national coaching advisory panel actually do. Clearly nothing special. They haven't got any results to boast about. And those on the Rugby Australia board who appointed them need to start getting their act together, and stop making decisions to the detriment of the local game.

What is so bleedingly obvious from those defending Cheika is that mediocrity is now accepted in the Rugby Australia ranks. Being second best is okay. Putting up a bit of an effort is apparently good enough. Getting away with wheeling out feeble excuses is now accepted.

Sorry that is not the real world. Australian sport has thrived on playing above its weight. Why sport is so crucial to our national culture is that this country has so often defied the odds. Our sportspeople inspire and revive our nation. It is expected, no demanded, that Australia are winners. Anyone who thinks otherwise should not be allowed anywhere near an Australian sporting team. So maybe some at Rugby Australia should start thinking of other options.

Then there are those who say that changing the coach a year out from the World Cup is stupid. Maybe these apologists should do a bit of research for a change. Cheika was appointed to the job just over 10 months from the last World Cup.

And since the 2015 World Cup, Cheika's coaching record has been diabolical. Just 14 wins from 34 Tests, a success rate of 41 percent. That is simply unacceptable.

There are numerous able candidates out there who can take over. But you can understand some don't want their names associated with this poisoned position.