Senior Australian players not focused on Super Rugby: Hansen All Blacks coach Steve Hansen. All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has suggested that established Wallabies scratching around for form in the early rounds of Super Rugby might already have one eye on the British and Irish Lions series. "Any time the Lions come to town or there's a big event on, your senior players gear themselves up for that and maybe their focus on winning the Super 15 is not quite as strong as it could be," Hansen has told LiveSport radio in New Zealand. But I think that they'll come together and produce a pretty good Australia team. Both the Waratahs and Reds, who provided the bulk of players invited to the Wallabies logistical camps earlier this year, have been unconvincing in the opening rounds, with NSW coach Michael Cheika already dropping the axe on Benn Robinson, Drew Mitchell and Sekope Kepu. Meanwhile, the likes of Dave Dennis and Quade Cooper have been overshadowed by the strong early performances of the Brumbies, raising the troubling prospect that the Wallabies will have to opt for either form or experience, but not both. However, Hansen saw similarities in the Reds' sluggish start with their 2012 campaign and said all experienced players would pace themselves to peak at the right time. "[Will} Genia has just come back for his first game back, so he's only going to get better," Hansen said. Queensland, even last year, they were up and down a bit early on in the season. It's a massive tournament now, the Super 15. To get right through to the end of June, July, and get into the play-offs, it's a long time smashing your body around, so you can't peak for the whole season. You've got to pick the right times to peak, and the senior players do that. Hansen, a former Wales coach, also admitted he enjoyed "a wry smile" at Wales' 30-3 demolition last weekend of the England side that has been showered with superlatives since their big win against the All Blacks last year. "Expectations on you grow and once you get higher expectations you get greater scrutiny, you get greater pressure," Hansen said. So perhaps they [England] are finding what life is like when you are considered a good side and they're not coping that well. They weren't in the match at all. Wales just completely thumped them. However, he warned that the Warren Gatland's Lions side would have "fundamental flaws" if it was selected too heavily from one nation. "There'll be a lot of Welsh guys in it, as there will with English [players], and there are some quality Irish players and Scotland stood up under Scott Johnson," he said. If he [Warren Gatland] gets the mix right then there will be harmony off the field and that is just as important.