Boks hand woeful Wallabies record loss

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AWFUL. THE Wallabies nosedived to an embarrassing record loss to South Africa that became more one-sided than the Federal election.

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Newly-elected coach Ewen McKenzie admitted in the numb aftermath that the Wallabies might have to consider "dumbing down" their approach after countless errors handed the inspired South Africans the momentum for a 38-12 triumph.

Four straight losses for the Wallabies cannot be stomached as the recession we had to have. The Wallaby forwards were belted on Saturday night, bullied at the breakdown on so many occasions by a more physical, technically superior pack.

MATCH CENTRE: Wallabies v Springboks

"Dumbing down" is the wrong term. Dumb fits better. The side-to-side stuff from the Wallabies started from the outset but rarely with any crashing go-forward from the pack to earn the right.

The Springboks, led by man-of-the-match flanker Francois Louw, simply lined up the gold jerseys, knocked them down and fleeced the ball.
The scrum was again poor, 18 turnovers were coughed up and the structure of play was haphazard.

McKenzie did not mince words after his third straight defeat as coach while the Boks celebrated their biggest win on Australian soil.

"We're not going to throw in the towel. We do have to handle the pressure better but playing from behind again put us in a situation where we just dug a bigger hole," McKenzie said.

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"The simple errors are not acceptable. I can't offer that every week ... maybe we have to dumb it down, make things simpler.

"We definitely wanted to keep the tempo up and play footy but we didn't conserve the ball. Four times in front of their posts we turned it over."

Wallabies fans are wavering after the big losses to the British and Irish Lions (41-16), All Blacks (47-29) and now the Boks in Australia's last three outings on home soil when 14 tries have been conceded.

"I do hope the public keep faith. We have to keep faith as a team and get that balance of winning and being entertaining," captain Will Genia said.

The Springboks snapped one of their biggest hoodoos. They had not won in Brisbane for 42 years and never at Suncorp Stadium.

Winger Nick Cummins summed up the Wallabies' fractured play. He dropped two balls, put on a rattling hit on Boks fullback Zane Kirchner and zoomed into open space off a Quade Cooper short ball before slipping to a stop.

Recalled five-eighth Cooper threw some lovely passes, made a trysaving tackle and added some width to the Wallabies game but also pushed passes when chasing the game. Israel Folau had his moments too at fullback but there was so little regular front-foot ball that he is still an unfulfilled weapon.

Such subtlties are meaningless when a side is so comprehensively beaten at the breakdown.

It was a record margin of victory on Australian soil for the Boks, topping the 18-6 win in Sydney in 1971.

With 20 minutes to play, the Wallabies had imagined a comeback from 19-12 down but yet another breakdown turnover forced by Louw put the Boks into counter-attack. Captain Jean de Villiers crossed. The floodgates opened when the Wallabies defence out wide splintered.

The Test was strangled at times by "Clancy of the Overflow", Irish whistleblower George Clancy.

The Wallabies lost energy in the second half when flanker Michael Hooper was highly frustrated when sinbinned for a lifting tackle on Bryan Habana which for decades has been regarded as a strong tackle defending the tryline 15m out. Habana came down on his back.

McKenzie said early in the week that the Boks set up three times as many lineouts in the opposition quarter as any other top nation. His research was unfortunately spot on because prop Coenie Oosthuizen barrelled over from a lineout drive after just seven minutes.

Steady-headed play was the only way to quell the Boks and the Wallabies weren't showing it. When the Wallabies surged to within metres of the South African tryline just before half-time, No.8 Ben Mowen was penalised for not releasing the ball as more hungry Bok hands groped for it.

Five-eighth Cooper defended in the frontline as if McKenzie was making a point to predecessor Robbie Deans that he was equipped to do so.

Cooper repaid that faith in the seconds before half-time when he joined with replacement forward Ben McCalman to save a try when barrelling livewire winger Willie le Roux into touch just metres out. .

SOUTH AFRICA 38 (Coenie Oosthuizen, Jean de Villiers, Zane Kirchner, Willie le Roux tries; Morne Steyn 3 conversions, 4 penalties) d AUSTRALIA 12 (Christian Leali'ifano 4 penalties).

See how all the action unfolded in our match blog below

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