2026 - The Cyber View from the Hill

25th Feb 2026

6 from 6 What a Weekend

Last weekend was one of the best weekends of mens football in a very long time. We came away with 6 wins from 6 games. While 3 were trials it does show we should be heading in the right direction as a club after the horror 2025 season. Our first grade squad near full strength, and our left edge while rusty showed what it can deliver. And while the opposition watched our left side our right side showed what it can do, lead by young Ward who is improving with every outing. Its now a week off while the NRL is over in Vegas before we kickoff the new season.

Arrow and Cheese concerns

As we head into 2026 our injuries seem to be mounting up once again. Arrow is out indefinitly from a shoulder/neck complaint which seems to be nerve related, and is under going specialist review. With talk of medical retirement circling. While Brandon Smith has suffered a moderate calf strain at training which will have a 3 to 8 week recovery. Hope both injuries are not as bad a they sound.

Kirk Double

It was a strong final outing for our reserve grade team against Manly. Kirk a new recruit from the Queensland Cup, combined well on the right side to score two tries for the afternoon. Looking forward to the ongoing improvements.

Ballard hattrick

Josh Ballard is enjoying his football on the end of a high quality U19 backline. His right side play outside of Jennings is helping to score tries with his speed and positional play. On the weekend he scored a hattrick of tries, almost getting a fourth. Keep up the good work.

Mafi triple & Mission double

Our U16 development squad got underway in the set of development trials on the weekend. And two players stood out, Tevita Mafi who scored 3 tries at centre and Cooper Mission who scored two himself on the other side of the field at five-eighth. These boys will be the nucleus of next years U17 squad.

Vegas Growing, possible Miami Game

Las Vegas continues to grow every year off the field every year. There are reports that 20,000 people have headed over, with it becoming a off field Aussie marketing push as well. Garlo's are over there selling 50,000 pies. Basically the evnt is becoming bigger than just Rugby League, at least from a hype point of view. The NRL is now also considering a game in Miami and talk of a London game. The Global Round round continue to gain momentum.

Pre-Season 2 - Stat Attack

Statistically it was a good game. Completions improved to 79% from 85% last week. Errors dropped to 12 from 10 last week. We gave away 7 penalties and 7 6-again calls from 5 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle dropped to a average level of 32.7m from 28.2m last week. Our missed tackles improved to a very good level of 23 from 45 last week. Opposition offloads improved to 2 from 5 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - BentleyHape/Afaolo-Mitchell/Seigwalt-Walker/Humphreys-Fifita/Garlick/Fletcher (0-1-3-2) improved to 6 from 14 missed tackles last week. On the right side Graham/Mazzone-Wighton/Tauaa-Ward/Humphries-Duncan/Aitken (2-1-5-0) improved to 8 from 10 last week. Ruck defence Tatola/Keppie-Smith/Mamouzelos-Koloamatangi/Radel-Murray/Hubner (1-5-0-1) improved to 7 from 15 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward improved to 1781m from 1457m last week. With our props go forward dropped to a very poor level of 317m compared to 342m last year. Fifita, Tatola, Graham, Mitchell, Smith, Humphreys, Dufty and Tauaa made 10+m per run. Koloamatangi, Fifita, Graham and Walker made 100+m in the match. Defensively Smith was our best in the tackling raking up 30 tackles. Tatola, Mitchell, Aitken, Hubner, LeBlanc, Fletcher, Radel, Bentley-Hape, Graham, JGray, Tauaa, Afaolo and Humphreys didn't miss a tackle.

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