I've been rewatching the game. We weren't as bad a I thought on first viewing. I think we had things under control and could have closed out...until the intercept try. That unleashed 9 minutes of chaos where the game slipped beyond us, and it all came down to one bad pass, two missed tackles and our narrow defense being exploited, this time fatally, for the 4th or 5th time in the game.
57:30 Libbok throws the intercepted pass
60th minute skew lineout throw, followed by a free kick against us at the scrum for "no gap"
63rd minute Arendse catches White's crappy box kick but loses it. Wallabies takes it wide quickly, Moodie and Kriel both miss Wright, Manie fails to keep outside on Wilson, try.
66th minute Aus again gets easily wide of the narrow Bok defense through JOC's skip pass and Jorgenson runs away, steps Libbok and scores.
A 9 minute blitzkrieg and game over - the final Wright try was of academic concern.
Outside of that it was a pretty competitive game.
There were some other things we can point to, like the certain try we blew at minute 48 when Grant got outside the inside defense, we had a 3 on 1 outside, but Kriel inexplicably came back inside onto Grant instead of staying outside to collect his offload, managing to actually collide with him. Had he stayed outside, we get the ball wide, we need to beat one defender with plenty of attackers. Beautifully manufactured opportunity with Esterhuizen's dummy run pinning the 10 & 12, and Grant getting into the space wide of them. Why Kriel ran a supporting line back towards the defense instead of outside into the space, who knows, but that was an almost comical end to the perfect opportunity to seal the game.