Listen, you can call me a leaguie nutter if you like, but here’s the thing.
I reckon if you look closely, you’ll see that the wheels have fallen off Souths, or they’ve been too long at the bar. And it’s not just that they’ve lost the first two matches this year, against the Sea Eagles and Broncos.
Since Round 12 last year, the Rabbitohs have won just four of the fifteen matches they have played, and two of those were against the Tigers and the Titans, which don’t really count. And another was against St George Illawarra at a time when the Dragons were doing a victory lap if they won so much as the toss.
In eight of those eleven losses, they let in more than 28 points. Got it? Since May of last year, the number of half-decent wins they’ve got can be counted on one finger – against the Warriors – while just about everyone else has smacked them stupid. There is no doubt that the team is chokka with talent in the dressing room. But once they get on the field nothing is working.
What to do?
I’ll go with the obvious. Start by grumbling about the coach Jason Demetriou. Then maintain that Latrell Mitchell is doing too much talking off the field, and not enough on it. Say that they never should have let Adam Reynolds go to Brisbane, and insist that the joint has not been the same since Sam Burgess left.
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Then say that Cody Walker has also been well off his game, and point to the fact that as three of their next four matches are against the in-form Roosters, Warriors and Sharks things risk going south at Souths very quickly. Then try and get the numbers for a putsch on the coach. When finally that putsch succeeds, maintain that everything will be alright from here. It may or may not change the basic equation of stopping gutting losses, but it is the way we do it with the Wallabies and at least makes you feel better about things.
Rabbitohs are reeling, now for the recriminations
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Listen, you can call me a leaguie nutter if you like, but here’s the thing.
I reckon if you look closely, you’ll see that the wheels have fallen off Souths, or they’ve been too long at the bar. And it’s not just that they’ve lost the first two matches this year, against the Sea Eagles and Broncos.
Since Round 12 last year, the Rabbitohs have won just four of the fifteen matches they have played, and two of those were against the Tigers and the Titans,........
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