Injuries are starting to impact the team with two of our spine out in Inglis and Sutton and that Melbourne hoodoo extends to 11 games. A very lucky start by Melbourne had us 12 points down and we never recovered. Now off to Gosford for our 4th game on the road but at least its only a short drive. Still only one game away from a Top 4 finish but Minor Premiership is becoming a issue.

After suffering a injury in SOO III Greg Inglis finally returns after 5 rounds and Sutton make a timely return.

Another strong performance and that that makes it 5 wins in a row for our reserve grade side as they move into 2nd place, with one more win to secure a Top 4 finish.

In our battle for a Top 8 finish we secured a critical 1 point victory of Top 8 rival Melbourne. Still 3 more wins to secure that Top 8 finish.

As a South Sydney fan it will end up being 8 weeks gap between Souths playing games on a weekend at home. This is becomiing very frustrating as a fan and something our club needs to address in future not only for the fans but also for the players.

Statistically we improved after a poor start. Completion rates dropped to 69% from 78% last week. With errors increasing to 11 from 8 and penalties improved to 6 from 7 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle for the match improved to a average level of 34.2m from 40.2m last week. And missed tackles dropped to a goog level of 15 missed tackles from 25 last week. With opposition offloads to dropping to 11 after allowing 7 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - King-Goodwin-Keary-McQueen (1-1-0-1) improved to 3 from 10 missed tackles last week. On the right side Everingham-Farrell-Reynolds-Teo (1-1-0-1) was improved to 3 from 6 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward was improved to 1377m this week. Luke, Lowe, Merritt and King lead the go forward making 10+m per run. With Tom Burgess, George Burgess, Luke, Te'o, Merritt and King making more that 100+m in the match. Defensively George Burgess was our best in the tackling raking up 36 tackles. With Luke, George Burgess, Tom Burgess, Keary and Reynolds not missing a tackle.