2025 - The Cyber View from the Hill

7th May 2025

Another Roadtrip Loss

The magic is fading fast on 2025 after our 4th loss in a row, once again on the road. Our forwards were once again dominated as we struggled to control the ruck. Until we address this fundamental issue we will see the same results We have fallen out of 8 and are now closing on the bottom 4 in first grade. As a club we are struggling to improve across the 3 grades with reserve grade and U21s also running last. We are home this week against a Broncos team who have been running well so far in 2025.

Wighton and Mamouzelos Injuries

We can't take a trick. JAck Wighton finally had a strong game and then we lose him for 4 weeks with a hamstring injury. Then as the game closed we lose Peter Mamouzelos for a extended period with a dislocated elbow. Rotten luck for these players. But the trend of losing 2 or more players across all grades every week continues. As well as Wighton and Mamouzelos we also lost Rugless from U21s.

Schuster Show

Josh Schuster had his best game to date with the club with a strong game in reserve grade as he regains fitness. He scored a try, and setup two more, one from a cut out pass and a second from a well placed kick. If the trend continues he will be pushing for inclusion in the first grade squad over the coming month.

Fong and Berryman step up

The first of the next generation got a taste of senior grade when they played U21s on the week end. Fong's speed on the wing came in handy when given a bit of room, and the way he worked with Towns to score was class. Berryman could a real sprise packet at hooker. He energy was very evident when he came on and has a great abilit to attack behid the ruck. Looking forward to seeing how both develop.

Welcome Back Perth Bears

Well its official, the Perth and the Bears are back in the NRL. We all felt for the supporters and players of Perth firstly when News Ltd shut them down during the SUper League after a great 1995 season launch. Then the same occurred when foundation club North Sydney were kicked out along with us in 1999. So its great to see a traditional rival return, all be it in a new form over in Perth rather than on the Central Coast as they were planning in 1999. So welcome back to the Bears. Another major wrong from the Super League War is corrected. Got to love the free front page press Perth gave the announcement to AFL fans. They now all know Rugby League is in town to stay.

Round 9 - Stat Attack

Statistically it was a poor game. Completions dropped to 79% from 83% last week. Errors were steady at 11 again this week. We gave away 3 penalties and 3 6-again calls from 9 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle improved to a poor level of 35.8m from 39.9m last week. Our missed tackles dropped to a horrid level of 49 from 48 last week. Opposition offloads dropped to 12 from 8 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - BentleyHape/Myers-Aitken-Dodd-Duncan (1-1-4-3) improved to 9 from 11 missed tackles last week. On the right side Graham-Tass-Sullivan-Koloamatangi (2-2-3-2) improved to 9 from 15 missed tackles last week. Ruck defence Keppie/LeBlanc-Mamouzelos-Tatola/Moale-Arrow/Hubner (9-9-5-5) dropped to 28 from 21 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward improved to 1995m from 1382m last week. Our best all season With our props go forward improved to a poor level of 367m compared to 334m last week. Tatola, JGray, Graham and Myers made 10+m per run. Hubner, Arrow, Duncan, Le Blanc, Moale, Graham, JGray, BentleyHape, Aitken and Tass made 100+m in the match. Defensively Duncan was our best in the tackling raking up 43 tackles. Moale and Myers didn't miss a tackle.

News This Week

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Round 10 Preview

Rd07  Canterbury StAu L  0-32
Rd08  Melbourne  MRSt L 16-24
Rd09  Newcastle  LngS L  4-30

Rd07  Warriors   MtSm L 18-20 (GP)
Rd08  Canterbury LngS W 42-18
Rd09  Penrith    LngS L  8-32

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

First Grade                                            Pe    6A   SB OR SO
2024 Rd26  Penrith    Penr L 12-34 20,176 Referee     10-11  1-2   1  2  - :
2025 Pre01 Manly      Gosf L 24-34  5,679 Referee      4-5   5-5   -  -  - :
2025 Rd08  Melbourne  MRSt L 16-24 26,010 Referee      6-4   5-7   1  1  - :

              M   W  D   L      : PeW PeD PeL PeF PeA      : 6AW 6AD 6AL 6AF 6AA      : SB OR SO
v Brisbane    4   1  -   3  25% :   3   1   -  33  20  62% :                          :  -  -  -