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Wallabies supporters endured a living nightmare early Monday morning as Australia crashed to a record defeat against Wales to essentially be knocked out of the Rugby World Cup.
Wales's 40-6 victory in Lyon means, barring a miracle, the Wallabies will crash out of the World Cup in the pool stages for the first time in their history.
Here are five quick hits from a humiliating defeat that saw Wallabies fans leaving their seats well before full-time.
1. Wallabies' discipline bites them in under 60 seconds
After being lauded for a disciplined display against Georgia first time out, the Wallabies returned to bad habits against Fiji, coming out on the wrong side of a very lopsided penalty count.
So discipline against Wales was going to be crucial.
But the Wallabies came unstuck at the very first ruck of the match when Dave Porecki was pinged for not rolling away.
It was the first of 12 penalties the Wallabies conceded in the match.
Wales kicked down field to get field position — an early signal of their intent to kick ball away as often as possible throughout the half.
2. Wales score the simplest of tries
That early field position proved to be incredibly important for Wales, who scored the simplest of tries in the third minute to put the Wallabies on the back foot.
Eddie Jones described it as an "easy try" and it was, the most basic of attacking moves executed to perfection by the Welsh.
Skipper Jac Morgan made the linebreak off an inside pass, passing back inside to the supporting Gareth Davis, who dotted down under the posts.
It was such a crucial moment because it was one of the only times Wales had a sniff inside the Wallabies 22 for the first half hour.
Morgan's linebreak was the first of just three that Wales managed in the entire game.
3. Wallabies turn down points, get punished
It goes without saying that you live and die by the decisions that you make on the pitch — and simply put, the Wallabies made the wrong ones.
At one stage in the opening half hour, the Wallabies had enjoyed close to 80 per cent of possession and played most of the game in the Welsh half of the field.
Struggling to break through Wales's defence and trailing 10-6, the Wallabies received a penalty 15 metres out dead in front of the posts to have the chance to close to within a point.
But they didn't.
In just his second match as Wallabies captain, Porecki opted for the attacking option, kicking for touch and looking for a rolling maul from the lineout.
The lineout was a disaster, the ball overthrown as the Wallabies failed to even jump.
Wales took possession and earned a lineout of their own 15 metres from the Wallabies' line courtesy of a massive 50:22. The Wallabies were subsequently penalised and Gareth Anscombe knocked over the points.
The Wallabies could have been trailing 10-9 had they converted their kick — instead they were 13-6 down just three minutes later.
4. A terrible start to the second half
Trailing 16-6 at half-time, the Wallabies were still in the contest. Ten minutes later, they were very much not.
Tate McDermott said after the game the Wallabies "let ourselves down big time in that second half" — and it started right from the opening minutes.
The Wallabies turned over possession straight from the restart as Wales held up the tackle to create a maul, earning a scrum on the Wallabies' 22 and earned a penalty from that scrum, which Anscombe knocked over to make it 19-6.
After Wales gave away a penalty soon after the restart, the Wallabies failed to throw straight in the lineout, handing the Welsh a pressure-relieving scrum, which they again managed to wheel around and force another penalty to be awarded.
They hacked the ball down field for another 50:22 and off that lineout, Anscombe chipped over the defensive line into the vacant space abdicated by fullback Andrew Kellaway — who had joined the defensive line — and Nick Tompkins did the rest.
Then, in the phase following the try, Samu Kerevi conceded a penalty for a high tackle and Anscombe added another three points.
In the space of eight minutes, the Wallabies conceded 13 points and were virtually out of the game.
5. A comedy of errors to round out a humiliating defeat
Trailing 29-6, the Wallabies rolled the dice, introducing benched fly-half Carter Gordon to the fray.
But it was wishful thinking expecting the 22-year-old to spark a revival, with the wheels rapidly coming off for Australia as Wales turned the screws.
The Wallabies, so dominant in possession in the first half, couldn't help but turn the ball over in the second.
Australia seemed reluctant to spin the pass much past centre Samu Kerevi as the attack stuttered without any clear ideas of how to break through the shackles imposed upon them by the Welsh.
Somewhat emblematic of the Wallabies' attacking woes came when Kerevi dropped the ball cold on one of the rare occasions he did look outside.
But the circus that was the second half turned almost funereal with five minutes remaining, when Gordon kicked a penalty dead in goal when looking for the corner.
The Wallabies were already down 35-6 after Anscombe's sharp drop goal, but the penalty was the final insult.
Australian supporters had seen enough, leaving the stadium in droves, wondering where it had all gone so badly wrong.
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