Congratulations on Souths achieving 1000 wins in First Grade premiership matches.

Welcome back Nathan Merritt after around 9 weeks on the sideline. Nathan made asuccessful return via the Bears.

Luke Keary and Adrian Ha'angana continue to impress, both getting a call up into NSW Cup as a reward.

Referees need to re-read the rule book as players continue to break to early from the scrum.

A much better overall go farward this week. Up to 1394m from 969m against the Warriors.Handling errors improved to only 10 and missed tackles were steady at 27. We made a whopping 370 tackles on the weekend up from teh usual 280-300. Effective 1st tackles were better at 37.1m. But the second half was poor at 44.2m.

Looking at our left side defence - Merritt-Farrell-Sutton-Pettybourne (2-2-4-1) were steady at 9 missed tackles between them. On the right side Everingham-King-Reynolds-Taylor (0-2-0-1) was graet improvement with only 3 missed tackles between them.

On the positive side Taylor, Luke and Geddes all cracked 100+m. With Taylor and Tyrrell both averaged 10+m per run each. Defensively Crocker was outstanding in the tackling raking up 50 tackles. With Geddes, Starling and Reynolds not missing a tackle.