That’s it, folks.

The Springboks, the world champions, just way too good. Even when they’re fielding a second-string team and it’s bucketing down and the ball is a bar of soap, there’s not much the Wallabies can do.

Australia did well to hang in for as long as they could, but hanging in can only get you so far. At some point you need to lay a glove on your opponent and that didn’t happen. Meanwhile, the Springboks took their chances in the second half but left a lot of points out there in the first.

“A lot better from us today,” as Tom Wright puts it post-match on Stan. “But ‘almost’ doesn’t get it done, unfortunately.”