Where did things unravel since 2012 with Meyer as coach

When Mayer came on board at Springbok coach there was general optimism that the time when the senior players ran the team and we had a nominal coach was over.  How did that optimism been realized over the past nearly 4 years or are we as badly off as we were in the 2011?
Meyer started off the 2012 selection campaign by pleading with first Matfield and afterwards Du Preez to return and take over the Springbok captaincy.  Matfield for some reason or another denied this request and Du Preez indicated that he was injured and would not be able to take up the role.   He then decided on Jean de Villiers as captain - which turned out to be a good decision.
But then things started to go wrong - he selected players not based on merit, but on the basis that he knew them.  The main beneficiaries were Blue Bulls players who went through a turnstile - 14 of them in 2012 alone was in the Springbok team in 2012, either in the starting line-up or on the bench.   Meyer himself said that it was a mistake he made in his first year as coach. 
One of the Bulls players who was a total disaster in 2012 was Morne Steyn.  He was poor in all matches he played in - so much so that in the PT test in June 2012 the public could not take it anymore and boo-ed him for a totally useless performance.  That was followed by the Argentina test in 2012 - where all the players were lauded with good play against a team two of whom committed hara kiri through getting carded.  In the subsequent 
*   in the Argentina away test Morne Steyn was atrocious as well and the Springboks by a fluke managed to draw the game;
*   in the away test against Australia Morne was disgustingly poor as well; and 
*   in the away test at Dunedin his only asset - his kicking at goal - deserted him completely and he missed sitters, while his donkey kicking out of hand was described as BS by the commentators. 
After that fiasco Meyer was virtually in tears when he announced that he is replacing Morne as flyhalf.  However, that was not the end of that saga- he took Morne back on board in 2013 - where he was desperately poor in both tests against the AB's.   At that stage Morne was playing for Stade Francais and it soon became clear that the club regarded him as not good enough to be their first choice flyhalf. Notwithstanding that Morne was retained as Springbok flyhalf in June 2014 against the Welsh.  He played two shockers and Morne was involved in subsequent tests against Argentina where a shocking kick charge-down in the home test was his only achievement and in the away test where - when he came from the bench - his goal kicking was up to standard - but he made a rueful kick directly into touch. which put the Springboks under extreme pressure at the end of the game - a penalty or drop kick would have lost the test for them.   That was followed by a disastrous performance in the Perth test against Australia where Morne virtually on his on managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.   Morne Steyn has not played international rugby since that test, but is still in the Springbok squad despite being desperately poor in more than half of the tests he played in.   
In the EOYT in 2012 Meyer develop an even worse  tendency by starting to select players from NH clubs for the Springbok team.  He started off with Francois Louw,  Gurthro Steenkamp, Heinke van der Merwe and Schalk Brits - good players in their hay-day, but decidedly below par at that stage.  That was followed by a string of similar players in 2013 and 2014 - inclusive of Bakkies Botha, Fourie du Preez, Juan Smith and ultimately Victor Matfield.  Most of the ex-Springboks had either average games or failed in games.  They were all over the age of 30 - some well over that age and obviously their performances was substantially worse than it was earlier in their careers.  
Th floundering around by Meyer since 2012 resulted in one serious deficiency - we have less than 60 days before the WC serious deficiencies in the Springbok team at this stage.  Meyers main problem was he did not start building up a sustainable squad to take us into the 2015 WC during his tenure as coach and instead goes for way past their best players in his squads.  When some of his favourite players were serious flops in Super 15 = he panicked and now we are in serious trouble in getting a reasonable and established squad in place.   That is how Meyer's tenmure as coach will be remembered in future.