10th Sep 2025
Disappointing season ends
A disappointing season comes to a end. We end on a poor second half and finish the year in 14th spot, 4 wins out of the Top 8. Injuries ravaged this year more than they did in 2024, so this off season will be all about recovery and getting the team on the paddock for 2026.
J.Gray Another big effort
Another big effort at back from Jye Gray. Gray has run for over 200m for 3 weeks in a row with a huge 350m two weeks ago. He is making the fullback his own, and they try he setup for Ward was agreat solo effort. It will be a interesting competition for spots in the off season at the back.
Top First Grade Scorers
Alex Johnston finished the seaso with 15 tries as our top try scorer in first grade and 210 tries in his career just two tries short of the great Ken Irvine. Latrell Mitchell while only playing 11 games finished the year as our Top Point scorer with 66 from 2 tries, 28 goals and a 2 point fieldgoal.
Ward Top 3 Grade Scorer
Ward finished as the clubs Top Scorer across the 3 grades with 110 points 7 tries and 41 goals. While Jacob Fong scored 17 tries in 2025 between juniors and seniors. And Charlie Poynton scored 142 points from 12 tries and 47 goals between juniors and seniors.
Mailangi double but not enough
Seli Mailangi continues to be a star in our Womens team as she steps from U19s. On the weekend she scored a double a she tried to lift the team. But alas it wasn't enough as the women bowed out of finals contention. With Louise Yaranamua being the leading try scorer and Kiara McGregor the Top point scorer.
Resting players may backfire
2025 has seen clubs resting players on mass in the last two rounds, as the teams focus on being ready for their final campaign. Each team that did this copped heavy losses but none more so that Canberra who had cemeted minor premiership being belted by 62. While the some players will be fresh for the finals, it has exposed a weak underbelly that could bite they in the final campaign.
Round 27 - Stat Attack
Statistically it was a very poor game. Completions dropped to 78% from 95% last week. Errors dropped to 9 from 5 last week. We gave away 7 penalties and 3 6-again calls from 6 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle dropped to a very poor level of 43.1m from 21.2m last week. Our missed tackles dropped to a very poor level of 43 from 13 last week. Opposition offloads dropped to 17 from 5 last week.
Looking at our left side defence - Johnston-Wighton-Humphreys/Walker-Duncan (0-3-3-6) dropped to 12 from 2 missed tackles last week. On the right side Munro-Tass-Ward-Arrow/Host (0-4-4-3) dropped to 11 from 2 last week. Ruck defence Keppie/Murray/Arrow-Havili/BSmith-Koloamatangi-Hubner/Humphreys (6-4-6-4) dropped to 20 from 9 missed tackles last week.
Our go forward dropped to 1467m from 2205m last week. With our props go forward dropped to a poor level of 355m compared to 383m last week. No one made 10+m per run. Koloamatangi, Duncan, J.Gray, Wighton and Johnston made 100+m in the match. J.Gray made 200+m in the match. Defensively Arrow and Koloamatangi was our best in the tackling raking up 36 tackles. Murray, Johnston and Munro didn't miss a tackle.
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