What a year Souths secoured their first semifinal appearance in 5 years and their first Top 4 finish in 23 years. Its semifinal time yeah baby !

Inglis pulled off one of the tackles of the season in his try saver against Uate. He stopped the try, then stripped the ball while forcing Uate over the sideline. And Merritt was there to make sure things were cleanup.

Firstly congratulations to our NYC U20 team who secured teh semifinal position with a big win over Newcastle. In 2012 we had teh honor of seeing all 5 grades make teh semifinals. Here are their final positions on the ladder.

First Grade        - 3rd
NSW Cup (Reserves) - 2nd
NYC (U20)          - 6th
SG Ball (U18)      - 2nd
Matts (U16)        - 1st (Minor Premiers)

A strong defensive game where we held teh Knights out to only 1 try. But they did need close on a few occasions. Missed tackles was very poor this week at 41. Effective 1st tackles was again good at 24.0m this week.

Looking at our left side defence - Merritt-King-Sutton-Pettybourne (1-4-3-2) was poor at 10 from 4 missed tackles last week. On the right side Everingham-Farrell-Reynolds-Taylor (2-2-4-4) was also poor at 12 from 10 last week.

On the positive side our completion were good and we controlled the weather conditions well. Our go forward was steady this week with Sam & Luke Burgess, Taylor, Crocker and Luke cracking the 100+m. Defensively Peats was our best in the tackling raking up 34 tackles. But everyone missed a tackle which is poor.