4th Jun 2025
Need to Play for 80 minutes
The game was was played in 3 thirds. The game opened with a strong performance in first 30 minutes by South Sydney to lead for almost all of the first half. The South Sydney dominated the final 25 odd minutes of the game as they came home in a strong finish. But its what happened in the middle 25 minute period, that lost the game. Letting in 2 tries in the final 10 minutes of the half and 3 tries in the openning 15 minutes of the second half. We need to stay focused for the 80 minutes as Top 4 teams will make you pay if your not focused for the full 80 minutes. Its now for a road trip to Canberra against the 2025 form team of the competition with snow hitting the Australian Alps and it will be a very cold match day. Still 8 more wins to make the finals.
Johnston Scores 200 tries
All hail Alex Johnstone the great. He scored his 15th hattrick of tries, bring up his 200th first grade premiership try. Only the second ever person to do so. And all for the same club our beloved South Sydney. During the match he also broke the record for the most tries at a single venue scoring his 90th try at Stadium Australia. I can say I have watched every one of his 210 tries across all 3 grades. The next target is 217 all time club tries to eclipse the great Benny Wearing's 216 senior 3 grade club try scoring record in all games(premiership, cup and tour) for a single club South Sydney.
Mitchell power game post Origin
Latrell Mitchell put in one of best performances in South Sydney colours to almost lead to a come from behind victory. It was brutt force for one of his tries, while he set up Johnston for two others. Throw in his 5 from 5 goals and you had a man of the match performance a few days after his mid week origin game. In a self imposed media ban he is letting his football do the talking.
Lua making an impact
Daniel Lua a mainstay of the junior grades, has stepped his year into seniors. A lock or prop to plays with passion and power. He is making his mark on the team as he steps up, and scored a try to put the team in lead. Another one of the SG Ball team stepping up. Looking forward to watching his progress.
NRL wants Bennett for PNG team
This the rumour mill is running rife with the NRL courting Wayne Bennett to head up the new PNG NRL franchise in 2028. Thats 3 years away and only 6 months into his current contract. It is disappointing to this attempt to destablise our campaign, this time from NRL HQ. We have no succession plan this time around. But it is disappointing to see this already in the media, rather than focusing on what matters, 2025.
Round 13 - Stat Attack
Statistically it was a average game. Completions dropped to 82% from 88% last week. Errors improved to 7 from 9 last week. We gave away 1 penalty and 4 6-again calls from 13 last week. Our best all season. Souths Effective 1st tackle improved to a average level of 32.4m from 33.9m last week. Our missed tackles improved to a good level of 29 from 38 last week. Opposition offloads improved to 9 from 19 last week.
Looking at our left side defence - Johnston-Tass-Humphreys/JGray-Duncan (0-1-6-5) was dropped to 12 from 8 missed tackles last week. On the right side BentleyHape/JGray/Graham-Graham/Aitken-Sullivan-Aitken (0-2-1-1) improved to 4 from 10 missed tackles last week. Ruck defence Arrow/Tatola/Moale-Havili/Arrow-Koloamatangi/Keppie-Hubner/Koloamatangi (5-1-3-4) improved to 13 from 19 missed tackles last week.
Our go forward dropped to 1541m from 1848m last week. With our props go forward improved to a average level of 436m compared to 633m last week. Johnston and Bentley-Hape made 10+m per run. Koloamatagi, Hubner, Johnston, Graham, L.Mitchell and Bentley-Hape made 100+m in the match. Koloamatangi made over 200+m in the match. Defensively Aitken was our best in the tackling raking up 45 tackles. Arrow, Johnston, Bentley-Hape and L.Mitchell didn't miss a tackle.
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Rd11 Wests-Tig Camp W 22-12 Rd12 BYE Rd13 Warriors StAu L 30-36
Rd11 Gold Coast Bruc W 40-24 Rd12 Warriors MtSm W 16-10 Rd13 Syd Rstrs SFS2 W 26-24
2022 Rd11 Dubb L 12-32 11,124 P.Gough 2023 Rd13 StAu L 26-33 12,382 G.Atkins 2024 Rd21 Bruc L 12-32 12,114 W.Raymond
First Grade Pe 6A SB OR SO
2024 Rd08 Melbourne MRSt L 20-54 25,149 Referee 4-7 4-3 1 1 - :
2024 Rd23 Melbourne StAu L 16-28 8,973 Referee 5-6 2-3 - 2 - :
2025 Rd06 Nth Qld PrSt L 16-24 31,347 Referee 5-6 2-2 1 2 - :
M W D L : PeW PeD PeL PeF PeA : 6AW 6AD 6AL 6AF 6AA : SB OR SO
v Canberra never
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