We blew this with a mountain of dropped ball. We never got into a position to create presure and the Souths forward pack needs to take a lesson out of teh last two weeks when opposition teams take us on up the middle.

3 players made their debut this week in the mightly cardinel and myrtle. Joel Reddy then Kyle Turner and finally Nathaniel Neale. With Neale taking a long path to making his NRL debut.

Up in Charlestown saw a number of our U20's starts make a handy debut at resrver grade level. It won't be long before we start seeing these three in first grade.

And in U20's we also saw two of our U18 stars make their debut with Devon Makoare-Boyce at fullback and Zane Musgrave at prop make thier start at the senior levels.

All of the RL community is shocked at the tackle to Alex McKinnon and the injury sustained. Its been almost 40 years since something similar occur and that led to end of the "push" in the scrum. This event will have ramifications on the "wrestle" in the tackle and the recent lifting of the legs tactic.

Statistically we were woeful this week. With all possesion and disapline stats looking very poor. Conceding 10 penalties also. Completion rates were very poor at 62% and errors were at a season high of 21. Souths Effective 1st tackle for the match poor at 43.8m. We made 30 missed tackles which was also good but allowed 7 opposition offloads.

After the injury to Inglis at the 5 min mark there were some adjustments to the team struckure. Looking at our left side defence - Tuqiri-Goodwin-Sutton-Turner (0-2-1-1) 4 missed tackles this week. On the right side Reddy-Lowe-Reynolds-Teo (0-1-5-2) was poor at 8 missed tackles this week.

Our go forward was shoking at 1072m. Luke lead the way in the forwards was the best making 8.8m per run. With only Sam Burgess making more that 100+m in the match. Defensively George Burgess was our best in the tackling raking up 42 tackles. With Tuqiri and Reddy not missing a tackle.