I don't think it's possible to describe the feeling that this whole England squad will be going through after their early exit from a home World Cup. They have put their heart and soul into preparing for this competition and they have come up short in a manner that no one would ever have dreamt of.

To not get out of their pool will live with them forever but sadly that is sport and the only thing they can do is get on with it and live with it. The organisers, too, will be worried over how England's exit will impact upon the competition but I hope that what we saw on Saturday night, especially from Australia, and the quality of the play across the board will see the competition continue to capture the imagination.

The truth of the matter is this didn't go wrong for England against Australia, it went wrong when they lost a 10-point lead the week before to Wales. From there, the pressure that built on the England set-up during the week leading into the match against a strong Australian outfit became almost unbearable.

Look at Australia and you see a team under Michael Chieka who have solved, to a large extent, their scrum issues and have a backline that have the ability to be clinical with any opportunity that comes their way. England needed to fuel their fire with a good start to the match, instead they came up against a Bernard Foley-inspired Australia and the opening stages had the opposite impact of making England's job harder.

The clinical nature and sheer skill for Foley's second try should be an example to all of how the game needs to be played. The performances of Foley and Matt Giteau, who scored the final try with the last play of the match, show that this game is not all about size. Instead, Australia balance the size of Israel Folau, Adam Ashley-Cooper and Tevita Kuridrani with the magic wands that are Foley and Giteau. The first Australian side I ever watched when I was a kid had the Ella brothers - Mark, Glen and Gary -- in it and I have been a fan all my life of how they play the game and maximise what they are. Can Australia kick on and win the World Cup? Of course they can.

England players react after losing the 2015 Rugby World Cup Pool A match between England and Australia© Mitchell Gunn/Getty Images

What of England? Well they will have to endure the reaction, emotion and hysteria that comes as part of the package at elite level sport. Everyone will roll out their opinion and solution and the bigger and more controversial the call the greater the headline it will make.

The populist call will be for heads to roll but Ian Ritchie, CEO of the RFU, has already spoken about been measured in the reaction. Johnny Wilkinson and Will Greenwood have spoken brilliantly, they were both involved when England failed at the 1999 World Cup. Granted, they didn't crash out in the pool stage but were thrashed by a Jannie De Beer inspired South Africa. There were calls for change then but the RFU stuck by Clive Woodward and four years later he became Sir Clive Woodward.

So while everyone is calling for change, take a step back and think. England were the team in the Pool of Death who came up short, the damage was done when they lost to Wales, but they have a load of young players who will learn some hard lessons about sport and life and they need to harness that.

The World Cup will be hard to watch for this England team in the coming weeks, a constant reminder of what might have been. But they will have to get their heads on playing against Uruguay and then getting back to their clubs. Hopefully we will get to see Henry Slade exposed to World Cup game time on Saturday and not just the environment. He will be the type of player that will be better for this experience having seen things up close without having the undoubted scars some will bear.