Souths fans continue to turn out in force whenever we go up and play on the Gold Coast. Another Rabbitohs v Gold Coast ground club record was set and another good win for the boys. Only one more win for a Top 4 birth and the Minor Premiership race is now really on.

After starting in a number of Bears game of late Luke Keary returned to first grade with a statemet that says he wants to stay. In a short 15 minute stint he scored two spectatular tries.

After Maguire made a number of changes after the loss the previous week, the dropped FG players made a statement this week in their 64 point hiding of Parramattas reserve grade team Wentworthville. One more win to sucure a Top 8 finish.

Another strong win by the U20 boys and they are now back in the Top 8. Still a lot of workto go to make the finals.

As a RL fan I continue to feel cheated that we don't have 3 grades on game day. I am paying more for a season ticket than ever before and on some days fans are only offered 1 game on game day. We need to bring bring the 3 game experiance for fans and get rid of the 45 minute grass growing period.

Statistically it was a powerful performance by the team with the first time Tom and George Burgess played together for Souths. Completion rates improved to 80% from 76% last week. With errors improving to 8 from 14 and penalties steady at 8 this week. Souths Effective 1st tackle for the match improved to a average level of 31.1m from 40.6m last week, on the back of a season best first half of 19.3m. And missed tackles improved to a very good level of 12 missed tackles from 30 last week. We improved opposition offloads to 8after allowing 27 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - King-Goodwin-Sutton-McQueen (0-1-0-0) improved to 1 from 6 missed tackles last week. On the right side Farrell-Walker-Reynolds-Teo (0-0-3-1) was improved to 4 from 11 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward was improved to a season best 1688m this week. Keary, Merritt, King, Farrell, Reynolds, McQueen lead the go forward making 10+m per run. With George, Sam and Tom Burgess, King, Merritt, Farrell and Walker making more that 100+m in the match. Defensively Luke was our best in the tackling raking up 38 tackles. With Luke, George Burgess, McQueen, Asotasi, Merritt, King, Walker, Farrell, Sutton and Keary not missing a tackle.