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ENGLAND woke up to a Gabba horror story on Sunday, or as one newspaper described it, "slaughter at the Gabbatoir".
Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Lyon and Stuart Broad received praise but the UK press were less forgiving with the rest of the English team.
And the Aussies are never far from a stinging criticism or two.
After the dominant 381-run win, England's media was clearly unimpressed with the manner of Australia's victory.
David Warner was Australia's leader of the chirp in Brisbane and obviously got under the skin of several English players and reporters.
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Former Test player-turned commentator David "Bumble" Lloyd was most unhappy.
"We have the benefit of using a stump microphone which is not allowed to go to air and I have to say that some of the stuff that was going on there went too far," he said.
"I'm a big lad who has heard a few things in my time but David Warner in particular came out with some really nasty, horrible stuff. I would like to take him back to 1980 and listen to what he had to say to Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge and Dessie Haynes.
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The Daily Mail's Lawrence Booth also expressed his concern but admitted the chat had done the job.
"(It) felt a little unnecessary, for the unvarnished truth would have hurt England more than bit of sledging: Australia, a team without a win in nine Tests, had just handed them one of their most monumental thrashings," he wrote.
"But how to sum up that state of mind now? There are broken men wherever you look - most glaringly Jonathan Trott and Matt Prior, but closely followed by Graeme Swann."
After such a big loss, often, the only thing to do it look forward.
England will head to Alice Springs for a two-day game before flying south for the second Test in Adelaide.
The Daily Telegraph's Nick Hoult suggested the tourists use their Brisbane disaster as motivation.
"It is very unusual for Cook to be so outspoken about any aspect of cricket so his comments on Warner indicated the anger which is building within the England dressing room over the antics of some of the Australian players," he said.
Matt Prior is struggling for runs in his last eight Tests. AFP PHOTO / Saeed KHAN Source: AFP
"It has been evident from the moment England set foot in Australia that they would face aggression from their opponents at every turn. It has come from the players on the field, taunts in media interviews and taken up by certain sections of the Australian press eager to unsettle the English, even inciting the crowd to abuse the players.
However, former England captain Geoffrey Boycott painted a bleaker picture should the team shoulder arms again and fall two-nil behind.
"There comes a point in every player's life - once you have done it at the highest level and proved you have been a top class player - that you have a bad run. And you get a bit of leeway, because everyone knows you have done it before, as opposed to a new kid who gets dropped after two games."
"(Matt) Prior's ... dismissal have been unbelievably bad. There comes a moment in time when either he gets runs or he has to go. And for me this is his last chance."
John Etheridge, writing in The Sun, said Cook "watched his team brutalised on the field and bad-mouthed off it by an Australian side hell-bent on revenge."
He added: "This was an embarrassing mismatch, men against boys, sawn-off shotguns against pea-shooters. It will take a miracle for England to win the series now."
In The Guardian, Mike selvey wrote of Johnson's redemption.
"This was a bowler a world away from the one lampooned by fans visiting this country three years ago, used sparingly by Clarke in short bursts and backed up admirably by Ryan Harris, ploughing in like a dreadnought butting through the north Atlantic, and the indefatigable banana-eater Peter Siddle," Selvey wrote.
One man who wasn't shocked by the intensity of Australia's aproach is former England great Ian Botham.
"Welcome to Australia. And guess what, there's no red carpet for you to walk on, unless it comes courtesy of blood from a cricket ball," Botham wrote in the Daily Mirror.
"There are some things that never change about coming to this country and I think the current crop have been given a brutal reminder of what it takes to be successful.
Courage and bravery are two traits that are a must here, as well as fight, skill, patience and aggression."
He described England's performance as "ordinary, verging on embarrassing" and added the inability to score more than 200 in either innings was "failure on an epic scale".
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