2023 - The Cyber View from the Hill

12th April 2023

Easter Massacre

After a emotional fortnight, Souths were finally able to refocus on football. A refocus they did. After a tough openning period, Souths tore open the opposition through a 3 try blitz is the final 10 minutes of the first half. Then again after a tough opening we saw another 15 minute massacre where we scored 5 tries, to score our second ever 50 point result against the Dogs, in what will be known as the Easter Massacre. The team now heads up to Brisbane to face new chums the Dolphins lead by our former coach, who have started the season well.

Trell 26 points

Latrell Mitchell became the third highest premiership point scorer in a game for Souths when he notched up 26 points from 3 great tries and 7 goals. The record is held by Johnny Graves who scored 29 points in a game. It was a delight to watch the big man in action.

Not to be outdone Campbell Graham also scored a hatrick as he chimmed into the line with perfection, as our right side continues to impress in seaso 2023.

Duncan strong again

Tallis Duncan has adopted a super sub rle of late in reserve grade. He has been coming off the bench and playing 60 minutes. He scored another try and had another try assist while doing a mountain of defence at lock.

Kaho double

A strong win by the U21 boys saw the team work the ball well in backline movements, with Carson Kaho once again scoring a double out wide on the left. He is coming along nicely, and has speed to finish those ball movements.

Redfern NRL Training Farewell

It was a emotional farewell to Redfern as a NRL training facility during the week, as the team prepares for the move to Heffron Centre. We saw Mario Fenech and George Piggins join the team on the field after the captains run in a final reflection. While NRL training will relocate to Heffron, pathways games will still be held at Redfern and our Senior pathways teams will start using Redfern Oval as their training base.

Bunnies TV - Weekly Segment

The boys recap the weekend

Round 6 - Stat Attack

Statistically it was a average game. Completions dropped to 73% from 77% last week. Errors dropped to 13 from 11 last week. We gave away 3 penalties and 3 6-again calls from 7 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle dropped to a average level of 31.4m from 26.4m last week. Our missed tackles improved to a outstanding level of 12 from 24 last week. Opposition offloads improved to 6 from 11 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - Milne-Tass-Walker-Host (0-1-3-1) improved to 5 from 8 missed tackles last week. On the right side Thompson/Graham-Graham/Cartwright-Ilias-Koloamatangi/Cartwright (0-1-1-2) improved to 4 from 5 missed tackles last week. Ruck defence Tatola/Moale/Suluka-Fifita-DCook-Burgess/Sele-Murray (1-0-2-0) improved to 3 from 10 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward dropped to 1900m from 2064m last week. Host, Suluka-Fifita, Sele, Cartwright, L.Mitchell, Graham, Thompson and Tass made 10+m per run. Burgess, Kolomatangi, Murray, Suluka-Fifita, H.Sele, L.Mitchell, Graham, Thompson and Milne made 100+m in the match. Defensively D.Cook and Murray were our best in the tackling raking up 31 tackles. D.Cook, Murray, Suluka-Fifita, Moale, H.Sele, Graham, Milne, Thompson and L.MItchell didn't miss a tackle.

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Round 7 Preview

Rd04  Manly      StAu W 13-12
Rd05  Melbourne  StAu L 10-18
Rd06  Canterbury StAu W 50-16

Rd04  Brisbane   LngS L 12-18
Rd05  St Geo-Ill Woll L 12-38
Rd06  Nth Qld    NQSt W 32-22  

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