24th May 2023
Poor Finish
It was a tough day out at Allianz, as we missed the opportunity to go into outright lead, We fadded, as we did not control the offload this week, as we let in 24 points, in back end of the game. We did well to lead at the 50 minute mark, but the pressure of having a forward pack on the sidelines, and our tough early season schedule finally took its toll tonight against last years runners up. Still 6 more wins to qualify for the finals, as we come up to the halfway mark of the season. We now back to home for a match against Canberra who have just snuck back into the Top 8 and also looking to bounce back after a heavy loss.
Johnston double
AJ continues to add tries to his tally with another double on the weekend, as the left side attack improves. He now has 173 tries, all for the Rabbitohs.
Duncan call upTallis Duncan was rewarded for a strong start to the season with a call up onto the bench for this weekends match. He is a ball playing lock who has a high work rate in defense. He will be a worth fill in for Murray who is on origin duties.
Jye Gray Hattrick
He is tiny in a Alan Langer mould, but Jye Gray's ability to play a cheaky 5/8 role, with a step and speed to burn was rewarded on the weekend when he scored a hattrick of tries. He stepped up from SG Ball a few weeks ago and looks right at home, as helped guild the U21s team to victory.
Rabbitohs new website
This week the Rabbitohs launched their new website, which is a evolution from the Teltra NRL run website. While the early cutover is a like for like setup, with early teathing issues, it will allow the club to provide a new improved member and fan experiance. Looking forward to see it evolve over the coming years.
Round 12 - Stat Attack
Statistically it was a very poor game. Completions dropped to 70% from 85% last week. Errors dropped to 11 from 9 last week. We gave away 6 penalties and 1 6-again calls from 3 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle dropped to a very poor level of 39.4m from 28.2m last week. Our missed tackles dropped to a average level of 29 from 14 last week. Opposition offloads dropped to 18 from 6 last week. Our worst all year.
Looking at our left side defence - Johnston-Tass-Walker-Arrow/Host/Murray (0-1-4-1) dropped to 6 from 2 missed tackles last week. On the right side Milne-Graham-Ilias-CheeKam (1-3-4-2) dropped to 10 from 6 missed tackles last week. Ruck defence Tatola/HSele-DCook-Arrow/Knight/SulukaFifita-Murray/Knight (4-1-1-3) dropped to 9 from 6 missed tackles last week.
Our go forward dropped to 1558m from 1825m last week. Arrow, H.Sele, Tatola, Suluka-Fifita, Knight, Graham, Johnston and Walker made 10+m per run. Arrow, H.Sele, Murray, Johnston, Tass, Milne and Graham made 100+m in the match. Defensively D.Cook was our best in the tackling raking up 48 tackles. Arrow, Knight and Johnston didn't miss a tackle.
Rd10 Melbourne LngS W 28-12 Rd11 Wests-Tig StAu W 20-0 Rd12 Parramatta SFS2 L 16-36
Rd10 Canterbury LngS W 34-30 Rd11 Parramatta Bruc W 26-18 Rd12 Manly Bruc L 14-42
2020 Rd11 Bruc L 12-18 3,500 A.Klein 2021 Rd08 Bruc W 34-20 14,260 B.Cummins 2022 Rd11 Dubb L 12-32 11,124 P.Gough
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