Ill-advised cut-out passes, defensive lapses, poor kicking and a lack of impact of the bench.
These are just some of the factors behind the Wallabies' 57-22 hiding at the hands of the All Blacks in Auckland on Saturday night.
The defeat sees the Bledisloe Cup remain in New Zealand for a 19th consecutive year, and long-suffering Wallabies fans are once again left wondering where it all went wrong.
Down 21-15 at the break, coach Dave Rennie's side was in the hunt at halftime - as they were a week ago.
But another second half blitz from the men in black blew Australia off the park, with New Zealand running in five tries in the second 40 for a dominant 35 point victory.
Making matters worse is the fact that the ABs were barely impacted by the sin-binning of Ardie Savea early in the second half.
Rennie was able to pinpoint the areas his side were beaten. It is not a short list.
"We were well beaten because we didn't treasure the ball well enough," he said afterwards.
"I thought we defended really well in the first half, but we made some really poor decisions defensively.
"We turned the ball over, kicked poorly, got exposed down short sides, threw a couple of intercepts when there was clear space in behind to put the pressure on them.
"It's disappointing."
Last weekend it was Hunter Paisami guilty of throwing a cut out pass that was intercepted for an All Blacks try. This time around it was Noah Lolesio and Matt Toomua, throwing speculative cut-out passes which were picked off by Reiko Ioane and Sevu Reece respectively.
"It's disappointing," Rennie said of the continued intercept tries.
"It highlights what we've talked about. If they're going to play high, you've gotta turn them around and put the ball in behind them.
"It's disappointing we're not seeing that and communicating it.
"It sounds like the second one there was plenty of talk but we didn't react."
While his reserves bench had played a key role in a series win over France last month, Rennie said fresh legs didn't have the desired impact against the All Blacks.
"There's a number of men who emptied the tank prior to coming off, and pretty disappointed with the impact we got off the bench," he said.
"Compared to the French series were our bench were outstanding.
"So, that's stuff we'll look through and we'll look through some footage and get some clarity on that."
Both sides have a week off next weekend before the third trans-Tasman clash in Perth on August 28.