Twenty minutes and 14 seconds.
That was all it took for Wales' Six Nations opener against Ireland to realistically be done as a contest.
1,214 seconds. In that time, Wales had conceded three tries and were making their way under the sticks for another post-mortem in their own in-goal area. Whatever Warren Gatland's plan was on his return to the Wales job, this wasn't it.
But just what went wrong?
The plot became clear mere seconds into the match. Tomos Williams' exit didn't find touch and Ireland set up camp in the Wales half. In 10 seconds, they move it to the other edge - finding a kink in the Welsh defence.
The first phase sees Ireland run with Johnny Sexton tucked tightly behind a pod of three forwards. They hit the middle man, with Sexton's presence keeping the option of a pull-back pass out the back open until the last moment.
That forces Wales' defence to hold their feet, allowing Ireland's carrier to meet a passive tackle. When they recycle, they move to Sexton at first-receiver.
Playing off fast ball, the fly-half is able to bypass most of the forwards in the Welsh line with a pass out the back to Stuart McCloskey. That leaves George North and Josh Adams treading water, with McCloskey floating a pass out to James Lowe on the touchline.
With Wales defending in a pendulum-like 13-2 system, Liam Williams is forced to step up from the backfield once Adams is bypassed. Recognising this, Lowe immediately kicks the ball behind Williams and get him turning to defend.
The goal-line dropout rule has now made it trickier for defenders. Where Williams would once have shepherded the ball over his line, dotted it down and made do with a 22 drop-out, the goal-line dropout now puts greater pressure on players to run their way out of trouble close to their line.
Here, Williams tries that, is cornered and, as such, Adams' under-pressure clearance kick goes out about seven metres from the line. That set the tone for the afternoon.
From Ireland's first venture into the Welsh 22, they run a fairly normal 31 play. Three phases infield, then one back against the grain towards the blindside. It does a nice job of sucking Welsh defenders inwards, before they then strike with one big carry from James Ryan putting them into striking distance.
On the phase before, Justin Tipuric gets half-tempted by a jackal attempt that is never on, delaying him folding behind the ruck to get to the guard position. As such, Jac Morgan checks his own movement to step in - leaving him disconnected from the next defender, Taulupe Faletau.
Sexton recognises this and gives an inside ball to Ryan, who hits an angle that moves him away from Morgan and sucks in plenty of bodies. Wales can't fold numbers around and North is stuck defending at guard with two team-mates outside him and multiple options to read.
It's a simple opening score for Ireland to register from there. Former England captain Martin Johnson said, "there's nothing complex" about Ireland's carrying game. They just do it very, very well.
That perhaps robs of them some credit, as this isn't just one-dimensional brute force. Wales have shown they can deal with that in the past.
Even though this side lacks the physicality to consistently win collisions, they have the sheer grit and determination to put their bodies on the line over and over again - as shown by a win in South Africa last year.
However, introduce some ball movement and footwork around the fringes and things unravel. That's the job for new defence coach Mike Forshaw to deal with.
It was a similar story with Ireland's second. A cheap penalty - the bane of Gatland's opening quarter - from Adam Beard for offside handed Ireland field position, before Ireland once again proved difficult to live with.
This time, it's a 21 play from a lineout that draws in Wales' three-quarter line before isolating their half-backs out wide. The first phase sees Garry Ringrose spin through contact, bypassing Dan Biggar, Joe Hawkins and North. On the next phase, the same trio try to offer some linespeed, but Sexton times a nice pass to Dan Sheehan to get over the gainline in the face of Biggar's spot-blitz.
Ireland then move back to the blindside, negating Hawkins and North and targeting the pack of forwards with a powerful carry from Andrew Porter. The late run of Josh van der Flier as the final option of the pod draws the attention of Gareth Thomas and Taulupe Faletau, allowing Porter to slip through the initial tackle.
At this point, Biggar and Tomos Williams have folded around to the right wing. Even as Wales slow down Ireland's ruck speed, the visiting side still have the numbers to isolate the half-backs in a wide channel.
Williams initially attempts to spot-blitz Sexton, but the sheer number of options around the fly-half forces him to abort that - leaving him to drift in no-man's land. As such, Lowe and Hugo Keenan are able to get outside Williams and Biggar for a huge gain.
Some more close-range carries then result in a penalty, which Ireland tap-and-go in search of more carries in the tight. The final piece of good work from Andy Farrell's side is the late pass from Finlay Bealham to try-scorer James Ryan. Threatening to pick-and-go, Bealham sucks in Morgan from guard before slipping the pass to Ryan - allowing the second-row to target Hawkins close to the line.
Ireland's third try didn't come from their strong carrying, but instead from when Wales were in possession. Farrell spoke afterwards about how Wales had tried to play expansive rugby.
Wales continuously looked to move the ball from the initial carrier, either through a tip-on or pull-back pass. Perhaps that was an admission that they needed to do something different than just simply carry into contact to win collisions.
However, while the intention was admirable, the detail was off. Their first attacking set came to an end as Liam Williams was tackled into touch.
It just felt a little frantic. After a phase where a tip-on pass had got them momentum, Biggar calls for the ball as he arrives late from the other side of the ruck. Williams ends up hitting Adam Beard, who then proceeds to give Biggar an unplanned pull-back pass.
That puts Biggar under pressure, although he still gets the pass away, and Ireland are able to drift off the fly-half and cover the space outside him.
Later on in the half, with Wales chasing while 17-3 down, we saw more examples of Wales trying to be expansive in what would ultimately become Ireland's third try. While the move ended with Lowe racing away for an intercept score that killed the game, there were some nice moments.
As a ball-playing 12, Hawkins has the awareness to read the spot-blitz when taking the ball out the back, timing a pass to Rio Dyer that allows the wing to then run at passive defenders.
Then there's also the way that Adam Beard gives a tip-on pass while mid-stride. That little subtlety helps disguise it, allowing Ken Owens to meet the ball at pace and dictate the contact.
There are still some flaws. Wales occasionally get drawn into forcing offloads and tip-on passes that turn things lateral. Alun Wyn Jones flicked this offload to Biggar while the fly-half was getting set for the next phase - although Dyer does well to turn things around with a smart step off Josh Adams' pass.
But as the phases go on, it feels like Wales are running out of road a little. The shape appears to go and the passes are fizzed in at greater pace.
It ends with Biggar attacking the short side with Adams, Williams and Hawkins outside him. However, there's little variation in depth and Lowe is able to read the recipient of the pass and step in.
Ultimately, Wales were forcing things and that showed here, as well as several times later on when they created openings but failed to take them. But there's signs of positivity with ball in hand, particularly with Hawkins at inside centre.
Perhaps that's why Gatland didn't seem as disappointed as you might have expected afterwards. He put the slow start down to a few daft penalties that gifted Ireland possession and territory.
That's true. But there was a little more to it than just that. There's flaws that will need to be ironed out if Wales aren't to repeat their awful opening quarter later on in the tournament.
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