Wales were under the pump from the off against the Springboks (Image: Huw Evans Picture Agency Ltd)

It's the morning after the night before and Wales supporters will be waking up thinking they have just endured a nightmare.

Defeat to South Africa by 73-0 was a massacre by anyone's standards. A new nadir? Welsh rugby always manages to somehow sink further into the abyss.

In WalesOnline's on-the-whistle analysis , rugby writer Steffan Thomas said now is "the most critical juncture in Welsh rugby's history since the game went professional".

WRU chair Richard Collier-Keywood will today face a grilling at the union's AGM being held at the Vale hotel. He is likely to endure an uncomfortable day when he faces the member clubs.

Around the world the reaction to the defeat has been emotiv

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