26th Mar 2025
Struggles at the Swamp
Last weeks game in the heat played its part in this game as we ran out again to play in the hotest part of the day. Our forwards struggled to establish field position. It was our first match against a team who is considered a genuine Top 4 team, and they showed us that we have a long way to go to catch up still. In a worrying trend we lost another player through injury out of this game. Now for a 5 day turnaround against the 4 time premiers, who are struggling after coming back from Vegas.
Welcome back AJ
Finally the return of one of our troops. Welcome back to our record try scorer Alex Johnston. With the arrival of Ravalawa for the first time in many moon's we will go into a match with genuine wingers. Looking forward to AJ adding to 195 first grade tries.
Blacktown RMC boys return
In 2025 we have a arrangement with Blacktown to play up to 4 players in their Ron Masey Cup (2nd Division) squad. This week we see two players who played last week for Blacktown added to our reserve grade squad Plath and Ngatikaura. When players return from injury this will help keep our squad a the necessary match fitness levels for our fringe reserve grade players.
Gallo adding some muscle
While our U21s struggle the presence of Nathaniel Gallo when he comes off the bench is very welcome to this squad. He is our biggest forward at this level and adds some agreesion to our pack. Looking forward to see him develop as the seaon progresses.
Fong and Alvarez show
Our lethal left was on full display in our U19s clash against Penrith. Fong, Jennings, Alavarez and Matthews tore up the Penrith defence with Fong and Alavarez scoring hattricks in a dominate display just before the finals.
Tarau double steals the game
Tarau was the hero of the touch afternoon in the U17s Matthews Cup win. He scored the match winner right on fulltime, his secodn for the match, off a great step against a tired defence. He is proving a dominate player in our young squad. The win keeps up in the run for a Top 6 position with 2 weeks to go.
U19 girls bow out
In a much improved displayed our U19 girls took the early lead in the game. But Penrith were ale to seal the game in the last 3 minutes, ending the girls season with this loss.
Reggie Gate
What a shit show off the field, with a Sharks fan tormenting our beloved mascot and many Souths players as they finished the game. The security guard dealth with the situation when the fan grabbed our mascot, but the media latch onto any negative press . Our 80 year old mascot, who does this for free and the love of South Sydney issued a apologie. I hope we don't lose Charlie a great community worker and image of the game over this.
Round 3 - Stat Attack
Statistically it was a very poor game in the heat. Completions dropped to 71% from 81% last week. Errors dropped to 12 from 10 last week. We gave away 6 penalties and 2 6-again calls from 4 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle dropped to a very poor level of 45.9m from 27.7m last week. Our missed tackles dropped to a horrendous level of 49 from 31 last week. Opposition offloads remained steady at 13 again this week.
Looking at our left side defence - Tass-Wighton-Walker-Koloamatangi (0-3-3-2) improved to 8 from 10 missed tackles last week. On the right side Ravalawa-Graham-Humphreys/Sullivan-Arrow/Duncan (4-4-5-3) dropped to 16 from 11 missed tackles last week. Ruck defence Keppie/Tatola-Mamouzelos-Moale/Havili-Duncan/LeBlanc (10-6-1-2) dropped to 19 from 10 missed tackles last week.
Our go forward improved to 1354m from 1737m last week. With our props dropped to a horrendous level of 243m compared to 407m last week. Duncan and Havili made 10+m per run. Graham, Ravaawa and Walker made 100+m in the match. Defensively Mamouzelos was our best in the tackling raking up 63 tackles. Havili, LeBlanc and Tass didn't miss a tackle.
Rd01 Dolphins WSS W 16-14 Rd02 St Geo-Ill Woll W 25-24 Rd03 Cronulla Ende L 12-27
Rd01 Cronulla LVgs W 28-22 Rd02 Syd Rstrs WSS L 32-38 Rd03 Melbourne MRSt L 24-30
2022 Rd04 Penr L 12-26 20,521 A.Klien 2022 Rd23 StAu L 22-26 15,206 A.Gee 2022 MF StAu L 12-32 50,034 A.Klien 2023 Rd02 Penr L 10-16 16,906 G.Atkins 2023 Rd08 StAu W 20-18 19,548 G.Sutton 2024 Rd09 StAu L 12-42 8,155 A.Gee 2024 Rd26 Penr L 12-34 20,176 P.Gough
First Grade Pe 6A SB OR SO
2024 Rd03 Syd Rstrs SFS2 L 6-48 37,594 Referee 5-5 5-1 1 - - :
2024 Rd06 Cronulla StAu L 22-34 12,207 Referee 6-2 5-2 - 1 - :
2025 Rd02 St Geo-Ill Woll W 25-24 16,111 Referee 4-3 5-1 - - - :
M W D L : PeW PeD PeL PeF PeA : 6AW 6AD 6AL 6AF 6AA : SB OR SO
v Penrith 5 3 - 2 60% : 4 - 1 35 31 53% : - - 2 3 5 38% : - 3 1
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