Laportes men, who were looking for a major improvement after their shock 24-14 loss to Argentina the previous week, were outclassed by Graham Henrys All Blacks, who ran in five tries to silence 80,000 home fans at the Stade de France.

The France coach has now admitted that changes to the team are inevitable, as he cannot continue with the same group, and fly-half Frederic Michalaks place in the starting XV is now seemingly up for grabs.

We were incapable of doing anything, said Laporte.

I felt we could play for another few hours without scoring. We were very fragile and we could not do anything about it.

We have thought about a few changes, there is a dimension missing in our game and that's the ability to break the opponents defence.

When you lose to Argentina and the All Blacks, you cannot continue with the same group.

For now we will look at a lot of players in the third row as well as at fly-half and scrum-half.

We could try Brian Liebenberg at number 10. We will re-organise the team and instil new blood into it.

Laporte would also like his side to take on southern hemisphere rivals on a more regular basis.

I am worried about our potential to win the World Cup in less than three years time because we have realised the amount of work we have yet to achieve to challenge teams like New Zealand, Laporte added.

We must be given the opportunity to play against New Zealand, Australia and South Africa every year until the World Cup.

We are going to make changes and we will define a sporting policy which could be for example to call up 10 news faces for the Six Nations, knowing that we will then have a summer tour in Australia and South Africa where they will be tested further.

The next challenge for Laportes troops is the defence of their RBS 6 Nations crown, with the first match against Scotland at the Stade de France on February 5.

Meanwhile, prop Pieter de Villiers is out of action for five weeks after seriously injuring his right arm during Saturdays heavy defeat.