A hickup after the bye and suddenly we are neck and neck in a Minor Premiership race. We had our opportunities but didn't finish off the Dragons who took their opportunities late in the game. Still 2 wins for a Top 4 birth but a Minor Premiership shootout is looming for round 26.

Its been a tough year for Greg Inglis but he will a few weeks with injury from the last SOO game. Lets hope that doesn't come back to bite us.

After a month of disruption from the weather the Bears get a well earned rest last week as they continue on their quest for a top 4 finish.

Another strong performance by our U20s and this has them just 1 point out of the Top 8 and snapping on the heals of 3 teams.

Congratulations on the Quensland Maroons on securing the 8th series win. I remember attending the game before the run started and seeing the Blues win by 50 and thinking SOO period could be over with a possible return to a time where NSW won 20 series in a row. Now the talk is who will stop this Queensland team.

Statistically it was a drop in performance as we failed to play a 80 minutes of football. Completion rates dropped to 76% from 79% last week. With errors increasing to 14 from 8 and penalties up to 8 from 5 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle for the match dropped into a very poor level of 40.6m from 27.1m last week. And missed tackles dropped to a very poor level of 30 missed tackles from 21 last week. We allowed a increadible 27 opposition offloads after allowing only 8 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - Merritt-Goodwin-Sutton-McQueen (0-0-3-3) improved to 6 from 11 missed tackles last week. On the right side Everingham-Walker-Reynolds-Teo (3-3-3-2) was dropped to 11 from 4 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward was dropped but still very good level this week at 1424m. Teo, Walker, Everingham, Sutton, Asotasi and George Burgess lead the go forward making 10+m per run. With Sutton, George Burgess, Lima, Sam Burgess, Luke, Teo and Hunt making more that 100+m in the match. Defensively Luke was our best in the tackling raking up 40 tackles. With George Burgess, Goodwin and Merritt not missing a tackle.