Sack Robbie "Dingo" Deans.

Those are the painful words I never thought would find their way into this column.

That is until, da da, da, da, da, da, da, da (to the theme music for Jaws) along came - no, it can't be true - SCOTLAND!

Wallaby coach Deans has been left with mighty teethmarks in the reputation thanks to these shock Scottish monsters who live deep down the rugby rankings.

Here's a quick test. Name someone in the Scotland rugby side.

There you go.

There are many things you can get away with in rugby but not losing to Scotland.

ARU boss John O'Neill has loudly backed Deans but in private Australia's rugby Napoleon should at least consider sending Deans packing. If he doesn't, there might be a few Aussie powerbrokers thinking about sending O'Neill to his own Elba.

Until the Murrayfield defeat, Deans deserved a very cautious pass mark after two years in charge of the Wallabies. Now he has hurtled into the failure zone.

Not only are Scotland Scotland, but they're coached by the English flop Andy Robinson. That's a recipe for disaster, a Scottish disaster that is.

Deans was supposed to raise the bar, not drop it into a big vat of porridge.

It's not entirely his fault by a long way, because some of Dingo's Drongos are so bad they'd have trouble getting into the Blues. The Aussie player stocks have been left to rot by their own hand. But losing to Scotland?

The only reason Scotland are ranked ninth in the world is because all the teams below that have to survive on scraps. These Wallabies should still be much better than that.

Deans is joined at O'Neill's hip, the way the All Black and England rugby coaches are to their overlords. Here's the big problem for O'Neill then. As bad as things have got, they could get a lot worse if the win-loss ratio keeps heading this way.

Australians don't dwell too much on losers, especially when they play a niche upper-class game where blokes spend 80 minutes falling on top of each other and you only get to see the ball when it is being hoofed to the heavens or into the carpark.

The Aussies are quitting rugby in droves, according to their union's latest survey, which revealed crowd and television numbers are crashing.