Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is facing an uncertain time at the helm of the Australian side, with media across the Tasman urging a "back him or sack him" approach from Rugby Australia.
With last weekend's defeat to the Springboks, Cheika's Wallabies have won just two of their last 10 Test matches, making for dire reading heading into next year's World Cup in Japan.
Writing for the Telegraph, Australian pundit Jim Tucker says that a call has to be made on Cheika's future, as soon as possible.
"No modern Wallabies coach has kept his job after a two-from-10 spiral although there is a significant difference between the Cheika case and Eddie Jones being given the boot with an identical record to end 2005," Tucker says.
"Castle's (Raelene Castle, CEO of Rugby Australia) recent public backing of Cheika is of the 'our support is behind Michael, he's contracted to the World Cup, he's got a plan' variety.
"Castle must go further with a 100 percent Cheika guarantee to best smother the sack Cheika chatter ... or off with the head of a coach whose winning rate has dipped to 48 per cent."
Cheika's Wallabies next travel to Buenos Aires where they'll face Argentina in their final Rugby Championship match.
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