The first Test of the Ashes ended inside two days and as a result, the overreactions and calls for change have been running rampant for both Australia and England.
After looking right on top at the end of day one, the tourists capitulated on day two and a century from Travis Head was enough to give the Aussies an early lead.
With a significant gap until the second game – which has been made even longer by the early finish in Perth - selection question marks will now linger over both sides.
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Who faces the new ball for Australia? Will the England bowling attack hold up?
Wide World of Sports looks at the biggest selection questions heading into the Gabba.
Who will open the batting for Australia?
This is quite clearly the biggest talking point coming out of Perth from a pure selection perspective and the debate will only continue until the team is named.
Usman Khawaja was the talk of the cricket world after failing to open the batting in the first innings, having spent too much time off the field while England were batting.
The left-hander instead came it at No.4 and was dismissed for two, before sitting out the second innings as Australia chased down 205 to win with eight wickets in hand.
In his absence, Head was shuffled to the top of the order and made the most of it, scoring one of the all-time great Ashes centuries to give the hosts an early series lead.
The question now is whether Head should stay as an opener alongside Jake Weatherald, possibly forcing Khawaja out earlier than anticipated in the twilight of his career.
The 38-year-old has been a brilliant player for Australia, but his record over the past two years at Test level has been hit and miss.
Khawaja failed to reach fifty in the tour of New Zealand in early-2024, before again struggling on home soil against India last summer.
He returned to form in Sri Lanka, which was admittedly a batter's paradise, reaching a career-high score of 232 to wave off any pressure at the time.
That pressure has since returned, however, and his decision to play golf in the days prior to the Ashes beginning has seen Khawaja cop plenty of criticism. Many are now calling for him to be axed from the side in Brisbane and replaced by Head.
If that does come to fruition, Beau Webster would earn a recall in the middle-order after he was the unlucky man to miss out for the first Test.
As it stands, this feels like a genuine 50-50 call between Khawaja and Head, which was only made murkier when Andrew McDonald spoke to media on Monday morning.
"We've got a lot to consider," the Australian coach said.
"We'll discuss and work through what it looks like. It's a conversation that we have had.
"We've had a conversation around Travis opening the batting for a long period of time and Travis has been on the record this week around that also.
"Will we do it? If it presents at the right time, potentially."
What will England's bowling attack look like?
It's no secret what England's plan was from a bowling point-of-view in Perth, but the issue was they could only sustain it for one innings.
The all-out pace attack of Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Brydon Carse, Gus Atkinson and Ben Stokes looked to have worked wonders when Australia were rolled for 132.
Archer was back at his rapid best, Wood was as dangerous as ever and Carse – who was a relative unknown for many Aussies – wreaked plenty of havoc for the batters.
The skipper was the star of the show with the ball, at least in terms of figures, taking 5-23 from six overs as the visitors ripped through a seemingly fragile Aussie order.
But less than a day later, things changed completely when Head bludgeoned a century and Labuschagne hit fifty to win the game for the Aussies.
The likes of Archer and Wood started to struggle with the ball and couldn't maintain the type of pace they were sending it down with on the opening day in Perth.
Both men had serious question marks over their fitness heading into the series and Wood has already gone on the record to state there is no way he plays all five games.
Archer likely fits into that same category, while Carse and Atkinson could feature more prominently given they have a less prevalent injury history and less miles in the legs.
The issue now for England, however, is that they simply need to win and can't afford to give Wood or Archer a rest – even though they only bowled a combined 28 overs across two action-packed days and have a long break before the clash in Brisbane.
If we were to make an educated guess, England will likely trot out the same bowling attack, particularly with the pink ball being used at the Gabba this time around.
Josh Tongue is the next man up from a pace perspective, while both Shoaib Bashir and Will Jacks are in the squad as potential spin options.
Who misses out if Pat Cummins is fit to play?
The inspirational captain was unavailable for the series opener but it mattered little in the grand scheme of things as Mitchell Starc stood up and finished with 10 wickets.
However, despite how well Starc bowled across the two innings and as much as Brendan Doggett impressed on his debut, Cummins is an automatic pick if he's deemed fit to play.
It would leave selectors with a tough call to make, especially with the Aussies holding the 1-0 lead to start the series heading into a day-night fixture they are expected to win.
Starc is a no-brainer and does serious damage with the pink ball, while it would be hard to see Scott Boland miss out even if he underperformed in the first innings at Perth.
Doggett, after battling away for years to earn a Test debut, certainly looked up to the task and would be a nightmare to face under lights with a swinging pink rock.
So that poses the question – does Nathan Lyon hold his spot?
The off-spinner was barely used in Perth and the hosts will be more than confident of taking 20 wickets with an attack that features at least Starc, Cummins and Boland.
McDonald conceded there is a chance the country's third-highest Test wicket-taker could be on the sidelines in Brisbane, but a decision won't come until next week.
"It's not something that we like doing, it's not the starting point for anything," he said.
"We felt as though in the Perth Test, if that game had been elongated that the spinner would have come in into the Test. It wasn't to be.
"I don't think it's something that we sit here right now and decide upon. It's something when we get there we look at the conditions, the pink ball and how it goes.
"Will we ask ourselves the question? Of course we will, we do every game."
The decision around the attack may also depend on which way selectors lean regarding the batting order, with Webster a handy spin option along with his medium pace.
The wildcard in the mix is Michael Neser, who is in the wider squad and is seen as a Gabba specialist, while his lower-order batting would be useful for Australia.
Neser was a perennial 12th man for many years at Test level and has fallen behind in the pecking order in the past few years, but still has plenty to offer with bat and ball.
Is there pressure on Zak Crawley?
He's already become somewhat of a laughing stock for Aussie cricket fans after a pair in the first Test, but is there actually pressure on Zak Crawley's spot in the side?
The logical answer to that is no, even if some smart judges believe there should be.
Crawley is one player who has been at the forefront of the Bazball era, but has failed to find genuine consistency at the top of the batting order for England.
The towering right-hander averages just under 31 runs per innings in his 60 Tests to date, scoring five centuries and striking in the mid-60s.
During the last Ashes series on Australian soil, he only played three matches and made 77 at the Sydney Cricket Ground but struggled elsewhere.
Two years ago, Crawley was one of England's better performers with the bat, scoring 189 at Trent Bridge and another two half-centuries to go with it.
His stint in the Test side since the last Ashes series has been wildly inconsistent and things couldn't have started much worse this time around.
The issue for England selectors when it comes to Crawley is their lack of depth in the opening role, which could save the 27-year-old for the entire series.
The possible solutions, should they decide to drop him, would be moving Ollie Pope up to the top and bringing in young prodigy Jacob Bethell at three, or going with a left-field option and moving someone like Ben Stokes or Jamie Smith to the top.
Will Jacks has faced the new ball in first-class cricket before, but isn't a genuine opener and appears more likely to be utilised in this series as a bowling all-rounder.
For those reasons, don't expect to see Crawley miss out in Brisbane – or perhaps for any of the Test matches this summer, for that matter – with Brendon McCullum already publicly endorsing him as someone the national side has plenty of faith in.
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