2026 - The Cyber View from the Hill

9th Sep 2026

Jai's 100th Celebration

What a emotional moment seeing Jai Arrow run out for the his 100th and last time as a South Sydney Rabbitoh. The sold out crowd were in tears, as the game opened. The Roosters rolledout a makeshift team as they rested many players and South Sydney took full toll scoring 10 tries in a record win at the new stadium. The regular season is now over as the team needs to put emotion behind them and focus on a finals campaign.

Johnston equals 30 try record

Another try and Alex Johnston equaled his 30 try record for the 3rd time, and was once again the NRL top try scorer for the regular season for the 4th occassion. It was his 240th try in first grade and his 250th career try across the 3 senior grade premiership games. And to think, he has plenty more to come.

Murray Player of the Year

What a honour for captain Cameron Murray being award South Sydney player of the year and receiving the George Piggins Medal. He has been outsanding in his comeback year after missing most of the previous season. A great year from our inspirational leader.

McGregor Finals double

Our Womens team is just one win away from the grand final after another strong performance. Kiara McGregor had a another strong game scoring two tries to guide the team to victory.

Wildcard Weekend

The NRL continues its growth path, and the finals format will also need a update. Wildcard weekend is now a serious option. Rather than playing a full round of finals, the new plan is for the Top 6 teams to get a week off. And for a 7 v 10 and 8 v 9 eliminaton games to be played in a new potential 10 team finals format. This will remove dead rubbers late in the season and teams resting players in the last round. This will make sense as we expand the competition.

Round 27 - Stat Attack

Statistically it was very good game. Completions were steady at 85% again this this week. Errors dropped to 8 from 7 last week week. We gave away 2 penalties and 3 6-again calls from 9 last week. Souths Effective 1st tackle improved to a very good level of 21.6m from 29.1m last week. Our missed tackles improved to a very good level of 23 from 48 last week. Opposition offloads improved to 6 from 14 last week.

Looking at our left side defence - Johnston-Mitchell-Walker-Elliott/Aitken (1-0-3-2) improved to 6 from 16 last week. On the right side Graham-Wighton-Sullivan-Fifita/Koloamatangi (3-1-3-2) improved to 9 from 19 last week. Ruck defence Tatola/Keppie-BSmith/Humphreys-Koloamatangi/Aitken-Murray/BSmith (1-4-2-0) improved to 7 from 13 missed tackles last week.

Our go forward dropped to 1890m from 1905m last week. With our props go forward improved to a good level of 474m compared to 435m last week. Johnston made 10+m per run. Murray, Tatola, Elliott, Koloamatangi, Fifita, Johnston, Gray, Mitchell and Wighton made 100+m in the match. Defensively Murray was our best in the tackling raking up 30 tackles. Tatola, Murray, Hubner, Aitken and Mitchell didn't miss a tackle.

News

Rd25  Warriors   StAu L 26-45
Rd26  Gold Coast Robi W 42-22
Rd27  Syd Rstrs  SFS2 W 50-20

Rd25  Manly      NISC L 24-44
Rd26  Warriors   MtSm L 32-46
Rd27  BYE

2024 Rd25  StAu L 16-36  9,659 C.Butler
2025 Rd09  LngS L  4-30 50,638 L.Kennedy
2026 Rd09  NISC L 38-42 23,413 L.Kennedy
2026 Rd19  StAu W 26-24 30,113 G.Atkins

First Grade                                            Pe    6A   SB OR SO
2025 Rd04  Penrith    StAu W 28-18 10,029 Referee      6-2   2-6   1  -  - :
2026 Rd21  Melbourne  StAu W 28-26 10,009 Referee      3-3   5-4   -  -  - :
2026 Rd24  Canterbury StAu W 22-6  26,582 Referee      7-4   2-2   -  -  - :

              M   W  D   L      : PeW PeD PeL PeF PeA      : 6AW 6AD 6AL 6AF 6AA      : SB OR SO
v Newcastle   2   2  -   - 100% :   2   -   -  14   9  61% :                          :  -  -  -