New Zealand coach Graham Henry is unlikely to hit the panic button, as his team heads towards their final Tri-Nations Test of the season - against Australia in Wellington on Saturday.

Despite a mere 50 percent success record and faced with the possibility of a record fifth defeat in a year, indications are that Henry will spare his under-performing players the axe.

The All Blacks have come under heavy criticism after their 0-3 whitewash against the Springboks, following a 29-32 loss in Hamilton at the weekend.

But assistant coach Steve Hansen said there was no need to panic.

"I've got no doubt that we've got the right players," Hansen told reporters on Monday. "I've got no doubt at all."

Hansen doubted there's any players on the domestic scene that can force their way in.

"Yes we'll look at the form, but you've got to put it in context, it [the Air NZ Cup] is our third [tier] competition.

"You can have a look at a player there and say 'oh yeah, he's going great'. [But] most of the sides, looking at the line-out, in the NPC don't even compete."

Hansen's comments suggest there will be minor adjustments at best to the Tri-Nations squad for the end-of-year tour to Japan and Europe.

There is room to inject a handful of other names as the tour squad size should be expanded marginally to 32 or 34.

Players such as hooker Andrew Hore, prop Tony Woodcock, flank Jerome Kaino, utility back Stephen Donald, wing Joe Rokocoko and fullback Mils Muliaina are among the more experienced names to have struggled for their best form, particularly against the Springboks.

New Zealand will name their squad to play Australia on Tuesday and flyhalf Dan Carter said the players all wanted the chance to make amends.

"We're not happy with the way we're executing at the moment - it's just not up to standard," he said. "We really want to go into this game and fix the mistakes we've been making in the Tri-Nations and really finish the campaign strong.

"I think we've got the players in our team to do it and we've shown it in patches."

Injury to wing Sitiveni Sivivatu will see either Cory Jane or Hosea Gear injected while, as usual this year, there must question marks over Rokocoko's retention.

With two losses on home soil this year - the weekend's defeat and the season-opening loss to France in Dunedin - the All Blacks will be desperate to avoid what would be an historic third loss.

New Zealand's worst season at home was 1994 when they lost twice to France and drew with South Africa.

The team underwent a light recovery session indoors at Porirua on Monday.

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