Wales have finished the calendar year winless for the first time since 1937 [Neville Chamberlain PM] after they got battered into submission by South Africa in Cardiff.
There was plenty of effort and endeavour from this young Wales side who frustrated the world champions at times but there was only one winner in Cardiff. Due to the lowly state of the regional game, which has been allowed to rot over the past 15 years, the players are no longer adequately prepared for Test rugby.
It was men against boys for large periods of this game while Wales did not have the power, the pace, the size or the physicality to live with the world champions. At times in the first half, this was like a Rugby World Cup pool match between a tier one nation and a minnow like Romania or Uruguay, where the only relevant question was how many points would South Africa win by?