A frustrated John Connolly is insisting the Wallabies had behaved "fantastically" on the European tour and reports of players being disciplined for late-night drinking sessions were a storm in a teacup.

The Nine Network has named tour captain Stirling Mortlock among a group of players who had been out until the early hours of the morning after Australia's scrappy 25-18 Test win over Italy in Rome.

But Connolly maintained, as he has for the past nine days, that no players had been disciplined.

"A couple of the guys got in a little bit later than we'd have liked but we told them to go out and enjoy themselves," the coach said.

A furious Mortlock said later there was nothing to the incident.

"Basically there were a few guys that came home later than what we should have and I was one of them and it has been dealt with internally as it should have been," he said.

The Wallabies had an eight-day turnaround between the match in Rome and their next Test, against Ireland in Dublin, and were not scheduled to train on the Sunday after the players had been out late.

"It didn't affect the team performance. They're grown men and you can't lock them up in their room the whole time," he said.

"They went out, out to dinner, went to a club afterwards or whatever, and there were no third-parties involved.

"Any young guy in Australia would go out 'til after midnight, or three in the morning.

"This week is totally different. None of them are drinking. They're having a quiet week."

The Wallabies are known to be furious about the reports, and particularly the timing of them - the day after their 21-6 loss to Ireland.

"It was eight days ago that this happened," Connolly said.

Wallabies team manager Phil Thomson, a former police officer, added: "There's no cover-up. We would be upfront if there had been any incident."

Asked if Mortlock's captaincy was in jeopardy, Connolly said: "No, not at this stage."

"We'll get through this tour and we will review everything," he said.

"We think he's done a good job on this tour, his first tour (as captain)."

Connolly acknowledged that Mortlock had been involved in a minor disagreement with assistant coach Scott Johnson on the Sunday after the Rome Test but said an argument between grown men who live out of each others' pockets for five months of the year was natural, and that the two were fine the next day.

The introduction of curfews on future trips will be one of the discussion points of the Wallabies' review of the tour.

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