Eddie Jones believes he is still the right person for the job after his Australia side capitulated against Wales to leave their Rugby World Cup hopes hanging by a thread.
Jones had said before the crucial Pool C clash he had no doubt his team would win the game.
But Wales rammed those words down his throat with a dominant 40-6 success in Lyon, with two Ben Donaldson penalties Australia's only scores.
The defeat, following last week’s setback against Fiji, left the Wallabies facing a humiliating pool stage exit.
Jones apologised for his side’s performance but is confident he can turn things around.
"Firstly, I would just like to apologise to all the Australian supporters. Our performance was not up to the standard that was required," the former England boss said.
"I came back to Australia trying to help. At the moment I am not giving much help, am I? But that doesn’t mean my commitment to helping has changed.
"I am a proud Australian. I hate to see Australian rugby do as poorly as we have been doing, particularly under my reign.
"I think I have got the ability to turn things around. I was hoping we would be able to do it by now, but we haven’t been able to.
"I take full responsibility, I haven’t done a good enough job and I disappointed about that.
"A process unfortunately takes time, takes some pain. Sometimes it takes more pain than it does pleasure.
"While it looks at the moment like it’s a shambles, I can guarantee it is not."
Wales coach Warren Gatland basked in the afterglow of an "outstanding" performance but insisted they wouldn't look beyond their final pool game against Georgia, a team who won in Cardiff late last year.
Gatland's men are guaranteed to top the group if they defeat the Georgians next month, setting up a likely quarter-final clash against Argentina in Marseille.
"We haven't looked past anything yet, it has been one game at a time.
"Australia came into this game feeling confident about winning. We felt confident to produce a performance today. I thought we were clinical.
"Our focus will be on Georgia, a team we lost against in the autumn (last year).
"We need to rectify that and we need to make sure we don’t drop our standards. I think these players are well aware of that – they have worked incredibly hard.
"We have put a lot of work in the last four months as a team together. We are a momentum team, we build on confidence in terms of performances.
"Today was an outstanding performance in terms of what we wanted to achieve. We were blowing a bit at half-time, but I thought we went out and controlled the second half fantastically well."
