Two-time Lion Lawrence Dallaglio has slammed the decision that allowed memebers of this summer's touring team to write personal diaries for the media.

Articles written by the players caused controversy after controversy, with the coaching staff, training methods and Australian opponents all coming under fire.

Dallaglio believes such actions were unprofessional and undermined the spirit within the camp Down Under.

He told Sky Sports: "It's a very contentious issue, should players be allowed to do newspaper columns?

"Fran Cotton in 1997 banned it and made it a rule that no player was to write one and, to be fair, nothing went wrong.

"In Australia we were allowed to write columns but I think there is a genuine, unwritten rule that you don't have a go at your own team-mates, you generally don't have a go at the opposition and if you can keep to those rules, everything goes okay."

Dallaglio believes that some of the criticism aimed at the coaching practises were valid, but that they should have been aired within the sanctuary of the camp.

"Ultimately the players have got to take responsibility, if things are going wrong we've got to voice our opinions privately, not publicly," he declared.

"There were things that were going wrong, things that the players weren't happy with, and I don't think the players complained about it as vocally as they should have done.

"It's difficult from my point of view because I was injured and I was on the back foot from the start of the tour and I wasn't perhaps my usual self and able to put my point of view across.

"But certainly there were things that were going unreported by players and players were moaning and bitching to each other about it instead of actually grabbing Graham Henry and Donal Lenihan and saying 'look, this is what's wrong'.

"I'm not so sure anything would have been done about it but players should voice their opinions privately and not publicly in the media."

Dallaglio refused to criticise any of the coaching staff individually but feels that collectively they did struggle to instil the necessary team spirit within the squad.

"All the guys came in there with big reputations," he added. "Phil Larder, tremendous, done a great deal of work with England; Andy Robinson had come off the back of a tremendously successful season; Graham Henry we didn't actually know a great deal about but a lot of his rugby knowledge was fantastic.

"I truly believe he's a great coach but it's a difficult thing to throw a group of guys together and get the best out of them in a short space of time.

"And you have to say we did fail in that respect because I just don't feel the squad had the unity of purpose that other squads had in the past."