In a Tri Nations dead-rubber where Australia was outplayed right across the park, Deans was most upset it threw the towel in with eight minutes left at Westpac Stadium.

After New Zealand repelled wave after wave of Wallabies attack to make the game safe at 19-6 at the 72 minute mark, it ruthlessly finished off the visitors with easy tries to Ma'a Nonu and Joe Rokocoko.

Deans admitted the three-try rout a sixth straight loss to NZ was a sobering step backwards after his developing outfit's last-start 21-6 upset of South Africa in Brisbane.

''The All Blacks were hugely desperate, played very well and the most disappointing thing from our perspective we essentially capitulated once the game was gone,'' Deans said.

''At that point when we weren't successful in scoring and the All Blacks did we rolled over and that was disappointing because that was the one thing we didn't want.

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