10th August 2022
Best First Half of the Year
As the team focuses on the run into the final, they put in one of the best first halves of football ever in the club's history. The 6 tries we scored destroyed the opposition as the forwards clicked and paved the way for the dominate display. Which was then finished off out wide with our leading try scoring wingers. Still 2 more win to make the finals. Now for the first of 4 Top 8 clashes to finish off the season.
Murray Leads the way
Cameron Murray lead from the front this week against the Warriors as he almost single handly tore apart their forwards. He setup 3 tries in his first 30 minute stint in his best display in first grade.
Duncan sets up a win
Tallis Duncan has been in and out of reserve grade all year as he stepped up from U21s. This week after a few weeks on the bench, was a break out match for him. In a period of 3 minutes he turned the match from a great crunching tackle to then score a barnstorming try to put SOuths on the right path to victory. He will now be a big part of our RG finals campaign, as we sit 1 point out of the 5 with 3 rounds to play.
Bijorac Double
Zane Bijorac enjoyed his return to his home region when our Serbian international and local Queanbeyan boy, scored a double in front of family and friends. Playing centre which is his preferred position it was good to see him coming back from injury well.
Souths caught up in the Stadium War
Well this week Souths got caught up in a cat fight between the NRL and the NSW Government over the NRL location. The NRL says that the NSW Government has reniged on its deal to upgrade Stadium Australia and diverted funds to the SFS upgrade and again on the funding for suburban grounds, so its contract to play the Grand Final in Sydney withe the NRL is null and void. Added to this Stuart Ayres, NSW minister for sport, and Penrith a avid AFL fan and who sat on the SCG Trust and now NSW Venues has been forced to resign because of corruption claims. The NSW Government is diverting funds to address the flood relief while venues like Leichhardt Oval which was upgraded in 1973, had a safety collapse on the weekend while the NRL puts pressure to not lose the funding. While the Penrith stadium had been given approval to proceed, this now may not got ahead also. But in all of this Souths had signed a 10 year agreement a 2 years ago to remain at Stadium Australia till 2030 on the condition the Stadium Australia would be refurbished to a start of the art rectangular stadium. All that has happened since has been adding of a new very large southern screen, with talk of the roof finally being added. With the main upgrade being cancelled. Souths have said the deal is null and void, and have applied to move to the new Sydney Stadium as was planned during the contruction period in 2023. But this is now being blocked by the NSW Government as Venues NSW will no longer have a regular tenant at Stadium Australia. After seeing the new light rail run to Rabbitohs heartlands of Randwick and Kingsford and Souths Juniors Leagues Club, it is logical that we now return to our territory.
Rabbitohs TV - Weekly Segment
The boys recap Round 21 game
Round 21 - Stat Attack
Statistically it was a good game. Completions dropped to 76% from 84% last week. Errors were dropped to 13 from 7 last week. We gave away 5 penalties and no 6-again calls from 7 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle improved to a good level of 28.6m from 34.0m last week. On the back of our best half of football all season. Our missed tackles dropped at a average level of 34 from 22 last week. Opposition offloads improved to 6 from 11 last week.
Looking at our left side defence - Johnston-Tass-Walker-Arrow (1-6-4-3) dropped to 14 from 7 missed tackles last week. On the right side Thompson-Paulo-Ilias-Koloamatangi (0-5-5-1) dropped to 11 from 7 missed tackles last week. Ruck defence Tatola/Havili/Moale-DCook-Suluka-Fifita/Nicholls-Murray/Havili (3-3-2-0) was steady at 8 missed tackles again this week.
Our go forward improved to 2171m from 1865m last week. Tatola, Nicholls, Moale, DCook, Thompson, Johnston and Paulo made 10+m per run. Tatola, Murray, Koloamatangi, Suluka-Fifita, Nicholls, Moale, Arrow, Tass, Thompson, Johnston, Walker, Ilias and Paulo made 100+m in the match. With Tatola making 200+m. Defensively Arrow was our best in the tackling raking up 36 tackles. Murray, Havili, Thompson and LMitchell didn't miss a tackle.
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Recent 2022 Form - South Sydney (6th)
Rd19 Melbourne StAu W 24-12 Rd20 Cronulla Ende L 20-21 Rd21 Warriors SunS W 48-10
Recent 2022 Form - Parramatta (5th)
Rd19 Brisbane WSS L 14-36 Rd20 Penrith WSS W 34-10 Rd21 Manly Brok W 36-20
2019 Rd12 WSS L 14-26 21,645 A.Gee/G.Badger 2020 Rd16 WSS W 38-0 7,012 G.Sutton 2020 MSF WSS W 38-24 14,510 G.Sutton 2021 Rd12 StAu W 38-20 20,743 G.Sutton 2021 Rd21 Robi W 40-12 0 A.Klien 2022 Rd16 StAu W 30-12 10,102 B.Cummins
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