Great Britain's assistant coach Brian Noble has warned not to over-react in the wake of their record 64-10 Test defeat against Australia last Friday.

And the Bradford Bulls coach is urging people within rugby league to still support its international revival.

Noble, who arrived back from Down Under on Sunday, said: "We shouldn't throw the baby out with the

bath-water.

"To use an analogy, we took a dip on Wall Street and the share price went down, but everybody should still invest in international football."

Noble hit back at critics such as former Great Britain coach Maurice Bamford and former Great Britain skipper Garry Schofield: "It is still on the agenda as far as I am concerned, but there are a lot of people trying to make some mileage out of their own situations here.

"However, things need looking at clinically as to what went right, what went wrong, and let's not over-react.

"That is so dangerous in situations like this. I can remember playing in a semi-final for Bradford Northern against Wigan and losing 72-10, and we played them the following year and were beaten 13-6.

"I just don't look at it the way some other people are looking at it." David Waite's No 2 did concede, however, that "the future of the one-off Test in Australia is probably dead and buried if you are only going for a week.

"It might have been okay if we had had three weeks to prepare for it - that would have been fine. We would have had time to acclimatise.

"I don't have a problem with one-off Tests in principle, but I do if there is only a six or seven-day turnaround like we had.

"However, hindsight is a wonderful thing. We tried to shake off jet-lag, but I want to re-emphasise that the boys' preparation was fantastic, even though we couldn't do anything for the first three days because we were acclimatising.

"We practised really, really well and the boys dug in. It was a tough ask, but none of the players will use jet-lag as an excuse."

Noble also reckoned that the quality of the Australian side has been overlooked in the aftermath of Britain's crushing defeat.

He said: "We were beaten by a very, very good team, and the facts of the first half say that we had nine sets and they had 23.

"And you don't need to be a rocket scientist to realise that with statistics like that against you we are going to struggle.

"I am not an excuses man, and there were many reasons why we didn't perform, but we weren't good enough on the day to get the job done.

"However, that is not to say that we won't get the job done on another day."

Former Rugby Football League chief Greg McCallum has claimed that the fixture was imposed on Waite and himself by Super League football director, Leeds Rhinos' chief executive Gary Hetherington.

Noble said: "I don't know the politics of how the match was arranged, but I do know that we did a pretty good job in preparing the team.

"Maybe in the future a three-match series with warm-up games down under is the way to go."