30th Jul 2025
Crash continues
It was one of our better games in some time, as we played a strong defensive game and led the Sharks at half time. 2 tries all but in the end it was missed goal the difference when we played with 12 men for a period with a unbeleiveable 2-10 penalty count and 1-5 6 again count. But it was our 8th staright loss as we dropped to last on the first grade table, as the disappointing season continues. Now we head up to Brisbane where the Broncos are looking to inflick another loss against their the former coach.
Fletcher get the chances
Thomas Fletcher is doing a Bradbury as he gets his cahce this week on the bench. A second rower from Coonable, who had a injury riddled season last year gets his chance after a slow and steady return during 2025. Good luck to a life long Rabbitohs fan living his dream.
Kelso called up
Cody Kelso was the latest name plucked from the Coogee Dolphins A Grade, during the Rabbitoh injury crisis He had a good debut in reserve grade from the bench and looks like a good size prop. He gets another chance this week. I like what I see in the son of Jamie Kelso.
Jennings Australian Schoolboy
Six players played in the Australian Schoolboys carnival on the weekend, with Dwayne Jennings being the pick getting selected in the AUstralian Schoolboys team who will play PNG at the end of the season. Jennings a star in our U19 team and it won't be long before he gets a opportunity in the seniors.
Yaranamua scores a double
Louise Yaranamua has been a revelation in our NSWRL Womens team. She has a great passing and running game for a big girl who plays five-eighth. She setup 3 tries and scored two herself on the weekend in a great performance, and a key reason why our girl are on the rise in 2025.
English Super League Expansion
There are moves over in England to move from 12 to 14 teams, where two clubs will step up into the top league once again. This expansion will be good for the game in the old Dart with clubs like York ready to make their mark. The English league however needs a stronger pressence down south in and around London. The ESL needs to create a rivalry of 2 to 4 teams. Once they do that they can finally become a true English league.
Round 21 - Stat Attack
Statistically it was a very poor game. Completions dropped to 80% from 92% last week. Errors dropped to 11 from 4 last week. We gave away 10 penalties and 5 6-again calls from 4 last week. Our worst all season. Souths Effective 1st tackle dropped to a very poor level of 47.1m from 31.7m last week. Our missed tackles improved to a poor level of 36 from 42 last week. Opposition offloads improved to 8 from 15 last week.
Looking at our left side defence - Johnston-Duncan-Dodd/Wighton-Aitken (0-3-2-5) dropped to 10 from 8 missed tackles last week. On the right side Munro-Tass-Wighton/Ward-Arrow/Host (1-2-3-7) was steady at 13 again this week. Ruck defence Tatola/Arrow-RGray/Havili/Ward-Keppie/LeBlanc-Hubner/RGray (4-4-3-2) improved to 13 from 17 missed tackles last week.
Our go forward dropped to 1260m from 1631m last week. With our props go forward dropped to a distratious level of 224m compared to 378m last week. RGray and Johnston one made 10+m per run. Tatola, J.Gray, Munro, Duncan and Johnston made 100+m in the match. Defensively R.Gray was our best in the tackling raking up 65 tackles. Best all season. Havili and Johnston didn't miss a tackle.
Rd19 BYE Rd20 Penrith WSS L 10-30 Rd21 Cronulla Gosf L 12-14
Rd19 Gold Coast Robi W 26-14 Rd20 BYE Rd21 Parramatta LngS L 20-22
2022 Rd01 LngS L 4-11 32,002 A.Klein 2022 Rd09 StAu L 12-32 9,242 G.Atkins 2023 Rd09 LngS W 32-6 40,102 A.Klein 2023 Rd21 SunS L 20-36 8,931 A.Klein 2024 Rd02 LngS L 18-28 35,507 G.Sutton 2024 Rd15 StAu W 22-12 12,202 A.Gee 2025 Rd10 StAu W 22-14 13,747 P.Gough
First Grade Pe 6A SB OR SO
2025 Rd08 Melbourne MRSt L 16-24 26,010 Referee 6-4 5-7 1 1 - :
2025 Rd10 Brisbane StAu W 22-14 13,747 Referee 6-7 3-4 - - - :
2025 Rd16 Melbourne StAu L 24-25 10,093 Referee 5-3 2-1 - - - :
M W D L : PeW PeD PeL PeF PeA : 6AW 6AD 6AL 6AF 6AA : SB OR SO
v Brisbane 5 2 - 3 40% : 3 1 1 39 27 59% : - - 1 3 4 43% : - - -
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