That's all very well, but don't forget that the bulk of this same England team that is now being reviled retained the Ashes in England not too long ago. A few new faces have been introduced in the current game in an effort to give them experience, a good move in my opinion. As has been pointed out by others, a lot of the Australian team are almost to the veteran stage and, while they are going extremely well in this series, they are playing an England team that give the impression they want to be somewhere else. There is absolutely no doubt that England have been completely outplayed, even humiliated, and I think that started in Brisbane when their confidence was undermined by a red hot bowling attack. They never recovered.
Who knows which of the current Aussie crop will contest the 2015 series? Australia should be bringing in new young blood too, and fairly soon, otherwise we will be in the same predicament we were when the likes of Warne, Gilchrist, McGrath etc retired. We have a deep pool of young, talented players who need to be given a chance, and not immediately dropped if they fail at their first, or even second and third attempts.
One thing that has most definitely helped the Aussies in this series is the stability of the team. Past policy has been to rotate players from match to match, supposedly to rest them, but since Darren Lehmann has been in charge he has fielded basically the same team throughout the series. This seems to have created a greater unity within the team, which has shown through on the field.
Peter.