It was like a grand final and the crowd turned up in force setting a regular season crowd record. But we missed a classic opportunity when Dylan Walker failed to ground the ball. You can't fail to convert changes in the big games as we found out that a 6 point lead quickly translated into a 12 point defecit. But we still ended up equal first our best result since 1989 and with the Ron Coote Cup. Now for the finals after our 2nd Top 4 finish in 2 years and weface our hoodoo team Melbourne but up here in Sydney.

In a game where we needed our stars to stand up, Sam Burgess was a standout leading the forwards against the monster Roosters pack.

Bears have been dominating of late with another big win on the weekend. They ended up 3rd in a very successful year. Now for the finals.

A narrow loss but our U20s team still made the Top 8 finishing 7th on the ladder. Another succesful year with all 5 grades making teh finals.

The game was a event the first Minor Premiership show down in round 26 for 45 years and the fans came out in droves. Rugby League needs to keep its big event games on big event dates. This means more RL games on Monday long weekends at 4pm rather than Monday Night football.

Statistically it was a game of too many errors. Completion rates dropped to a very ppor 66% from 79% last week. Our equal worst all year. With errors increasing to 13 from 9 and penalties conceeded increasing to 5 from 3 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle for the match dropped to a poor level of 36.3m from 32.8m last week. And missed tackles dropped to a horrid level of 35 missed tackles from 26 last week. With opposition offloads to dropped to 9 after allowing 5 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - Merritt-Goodwin-Sutton-McQueen (0-3-2-3) improved to 8 from 9 missed tackles last week. On the right side Farrell-Walker-Reynolds-Teo (0-2-1-1) improved to 4 from 7 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward dropped to 1286m this week. With Merritt and Kery making 10+m per run. With Sam Burgess, George Burgess, Sutton and Lima making more that 100+m in the match. Defensively Sam Burgess was our best in the tackling raking up 38 tackles. With Merritt and Farrell not missing a tackle.