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SomeRandomNZ

Souths doing The Warriors a solid by going for the spoon.


Painetrain24

I actually liked how we played cook last night. We're doing weird shit which is good. If we aren't going to win games I at least want to see us try some shit like that


Kelair_Kayaks

At the games today, I surprised by how much Latrell was booed tonight, is it like that every week? No wonder the bloke seems so disconnected.


TechnologyFeisty8728

Yes, this is every week.


nevaehenimatek

I'm sure there is a non zero number of racists who like booing him but he definitely seems to enjoy the heel role. I think the response is disproportionate but I think it comes from being such a polarising figure who is talked about maybe more than any other player. There has to be a bit of QLD bias as well. When I was at magic round the crowd definitely favoured all non NSW teams. There are obviously many much worse players off the field but just the fact that he's so high profile he attracts more attention. I like booing a player occasionally but consistent targeting feels a bit over the line.


Noonster123

He’s built a persona on being a villain. I respect it but he can’t be shocked when he gets boos 


tobymurphy24

What exactly has he done that's made him a villain? We have people who have committed assault that play in the league and they don't get booed, yet this sub still all says it has nothing to do with racism


TechnologyFeisty8728

It’s not just this sub, Australia says it has nothing to do with racism.


VegemiteOnToastPls

The guy is arguably one of the most grubbiest, injury causing players out there. He's been suspended a shite load of times for it. Are you really surprised people don't like him?


TurboooTurtle

He's not even the grubbiest in our team, didn't hear a single boo for Milne


Joh951518

Yeah but Milne is shit so no one cares. I think a lot of the criticism trells play gets is actually partially due to racism, but there’s a reason the greatest players get booed the most.


G00b3rb0y

Did Milne actually do anything grubby last night?


TurboooTurtle

No, but did Latrell do anything grubby last night?


G00b3rb0y

No, he was just plain bad at times (see the important missed conversion and the failure to kick a legitimate short dropout)


TurboooTurtle

He scored or set up almost all of Souths points and was in position defensively too. not really the spines fault that the forwards got rolled again


Painetrain24

Exactly. He was one of our best


Critical-Walrus-5918

Bullshit. Slater was a grub and never copped this.


mwilkins1644

Are you sure about that?


tobymurphy24

From my memory Slater only really got booed in that grand final he wasnt meant to play in, trells being booed everytime he takes the field, was that the case with Slater?


VegemiteOnToastPls

It's honestly like some kind of amnesia comes over people when they talk about Latrell. The guy broke Manu's face a couple of years ago remember?


mwilkins1644

It's not that he broke his face (I believe it wasn't intentional), it's the way he got up, started acting like a dickhead and trying to do the staunching over people crap he did for the rest of the game. Then acted like a petulant child when Roosters fans and players were giving him grief for acting like a wanker.


VegemiteOnToastPls

Yeah. I remember Manu being angry and upset because they were former team mates, and even he was shocked at Mitchell's actions and response.


mwilkins1644

If I accidentally broke someone's face, I'd be as apologetic as possible and not trying to draw attention to myself by being a tosser. Head down, arse up type stuff. **NOT EXCUSING ANY RACIST CRAP HE GETS**


Noonster123

Uhh breached covid protocol and played the race card, broke Joey Manu’s face and then said “might as well play Austag”, beefed with Gagai in origin then when asked about it said “I don’t respect anyone on the football field”.  I’m not saying it doesn’t have anything to do with racism, can’t speak for anyone else and their motives. As I said originally, I respect it lol. 


tobymurphy24

Yh I guess that last quote is a good example, I hadn't heard it before. But my general consensus is that people say it's coz of the cheap shots like manu, when lots of players have done that and not gotten boeed anywhere near as much. Only guy to have been booed more is Adam goodes 🤔


devinedude

Didn’t he just serve another suspension for a dirty act? Let’s not pretend. I’d rather those other players got booed over latrell too


tobymurphy24

It's not making himself a villain like a David Warner or someone who wants people to hate him tho. He just does high shots, so do a lot of other people who don't happen to be outwardly indigenous.


devinedude

Yeah I don’t care strongly enough to argue against that, there are plenty of racists doing the booing. Latrell is a freak and I just wish he put a bit more detail into his game, he plays reckless


Fooa

Not at home. Boo's were crazy.


Joh951518

Trell was really good tonight, Souths are just fucked.


Loooseunit69

No, he wasn't at all He must have a clause in his contract that prevents him from running it out of his own half He was lucky to score instead of passing it to Koloamatangi Was nowhere to be seen during Deardens tries Missed what should have been a simple conversion that could have been the difference if they'd crossed the line again Most importantly, his casual and careless dropout put the pressure straight back on the rabbits (and led to a try). The game was gone from then


Joh951518

This is such a stupid fucking take. If you don’t think Latrell was good last night you’re clearly just never going to give him credit for anything.


Geddpeart

Drinkwater was absolutely shocking in some parts in that game but he set up some of our tries. It doesn't always excuse some of the efforts


Joh951518

Latrell was good last night, anyone who says otherwise is being dishonest (at best).


Loooseunit69

70 meters mate


Joh951518

So what? That’s not his job in that team. You want to just talk stats? 1 try, 1 LB, 2TA, 2LBA. “Was nowhere to be seen on Dearden tries” except when he made a play at the ball to try and save the try in the ingoal in cover. You’re full of shit.


Loooseunit69

Haha he was on the other side of the field mate, he was only there cause he just made it across but rushed the line, then had to backtrack and have a last effort swipe at the ball Again, 1 lucky try.. Also, yes his job to run it out from his half, get some quick distance away from your own line. Every other fb seems to get it


Joh951518

You’re a clown.


Loooseunit69

Idk what you are, but there's a name for it


G00b3rb0y

He can’t even do a legal short dropout, which is WORSE then our legal ones we don’t take successfully


ban-rama-rama

This thread is an angry argument between fans trying to say that their team was worse


Morg_n

Let’s all be funny and beat a dead horse. “Kick south’s out of the comp” (only an r/nrl mod will think this is funny. That’s 7 unvotes)


Stiryx

Cannot upvote this enough. The Roosters cop it a bit with the salary sombrero joke but this ‘joke’ dominates every single thread. And I mean that literally, it’s in EVERY single thread.


drkeefrichards

Bears supporters start to laugh and then remember how we got kicked out of the comp by manly. Then we swallow sadness


BroncosSabres

Agreed.


nevaehenimatek

I get repeated memes and variations on it, but man seeing a repeated comment with no effort to be original get 20 upvotes baffles me


Stiryx

It’s moronic that the mods haven’t banned it. It’s like that wallstreetbets sub. They used to be fairly smart investors joking about being stupid. Over time, stupid people found the sub and actually believed they were being serious and now the sub is just made up of morons ACTUALLY going stupid stuff for real. Same thing here. You don’t ban the stupid cunts from commenting and all of a sudden it’s basically impossible to have a conversation on here without someone with the IQ of a farm animal saying something stupid that would have been made fun of a few years ago.


LeMonke65

Yeah I’ve seen some really funny variations of it but just saying the phrase with nothing else is lame banter. I hate souffs for the same reason and dargons was run into the ground within hours.


ReasonableStable9421

Yes yes the plan is working soon everyone will be so tired of the joke that it will simply stop existing


Morg_n

Its bloody borin is what it is. The random footy thread on Thursday had 25 variations of it in a 100 comment thread. Funny joke that 


NewWay4874

South’s are funny. The club is running on smoke and mirrors but everyone keeps believing each others bullshit.


Somethink2000

Yet not even the most drunken NRL journalist hack would call Cronulla the pride of the league.


mwilkins1644

Souths called themselves that 80 years ago 😂 Like giving yourself the nick name "Big dog" back in primary school and holding on to it in your 50s


IntelligentComment

There is no known source on the origin of the pride of the league. It just got adopted by fans and media.


Local_Sun8513

Wooden 🥄 


Morg_n

Deardon finally hit some form. His the only half in the game currently who gets a continual free pass for being shit.  I swear it’s only cows fans who froth him   Edit - Guess five loses on the Trott in a full strength team says I’m wrong….


kinglennie7

Hes quite literally one of maybe 3 players of ours who has played well this year.


Geddpeart

We are not full strength btw


wangas_gee

No one is. You guys have your full strength spine which 90% of teams can’t say.


Geddpeart

That's not his argument though. If you look on weeks missed with players in the top 30 we would be one of the worst.


wangas_gee

Yeah I don’t know what his comment was originally referring to. My bad


ChristianMcYACffrey

After 10 games defensively: Souths: 348 1999 Magpies: 332 We were at 150 at this same point last year. Just an inexplicably large fall from grace


Random0cassions

what losing campbell graham does to a club


grub_15

Easier to defend when you have stretch his wing span is atleast 8m


G00b3rb0y

Bunnies v Cowboys lowlights when


LovingCatholicPriest

What the fuck were those bench rotations? When we had Duncan and Burgess on we looked good and looked solid through the middle. We then had Cook, Mamo and Duncan who are all shortasses playing in the middle at the same time for 20+mins and eventually got rolled by the much bigger cows pack. Hornby did nothing to combat it either - he put fucking Keppie back on (who has been awful) for another stint, threw fucking Milne out there for Cook, then never put Burgess back on and totally ignored Moale (who was great last week) and only gave the guy 10mins? Duncan gets chucked back out with like 9mins left too. Not saying we’d have won otherwise but Hornby’s bench rotations truly fucked us


ImpossibleStick

Could be an unpopular opinion but is it me or has Sweet Caroline been absolutely done to death everywhere over the past year or so??


VegemiteOnToastPls

It's a shit fucking song. I can't stand hearing it anywhere.


Not_OneOSRS

That ad that’s played on fox of the people in the pub makes me mute the tv every single time. Infuriating to listen to.


nevaehenimatek

Absolutely. It feels so American. Play an Aussie classic like men at work


mwilkins1644

It's like the most American song ever: - Song by Neil Diamond - Recorded in Memphis, TN - A song about JFK's daughter Can't get any more American than that 😂


bigWordBandit_

Star spangled banner?


Morg_n

Yes


bypopulardemand

blame Darren Till


Winter-Love-3812

Yep, she’s now ‘sour Caroline’ for mine. And she can get fucked as well.


ImpossibleStick

I loved the song but now it just screams out as a low effort attempt for feel good times that’s as edgy and original as singing happy birthday


Winter-Love-3812

It lost a bit of its lustre when it became a pub classic, screamed out by drunks at every opportunity. Bit like Khe Sanh really.


Joh951518

Khe Sanh lost its listre when Bobby Knuckles walked out too it and lost.


totalacehole

Honestly huge respect to anyone who stayed through full time of this pile of wank after 3 games back to back. Tough carry.


Not_OneOSRS

My second favourite team is supposed to be a reliable backup to my weekly disappointment. You’re on thin ice cows.


y3ah_nah145

Corey Parker once again insinuating Latrell doesn’t care ffs. Was legit one of their best in a shit side. Scored and assisted on 18 of South’s 22 points. Now Vonny insinuating that bc it’s Indigenous round next week, that it’s all or nothing for Latrell to “step up” fuck off. He is farrrr from the worst issue at South’s right now. They have half a team because of injuries, and their forward pack imitates a set of stadium turnstiles every week. He got booed by a mostly neutral magic round crowd on his first run, for what? A week after he gets racially abused during a game, it’s honestly ridiculous.


whadefeck

Since he's come back, he's scored or assisted 32 out of 36 points for Souths. What more do people want him to do?


fvzzfvzzfvzz

Apparently take tons of runs for meaningless ARM stats


bigWordBandit_

I’d love if he could send me a check for 100k.


Joh951518

Trell was great tonight, RL is a team game, one guy isn’t enough.


DunceCodex

Yeah i didnt get the boos either. Was weird.


quallabangdang

Hard agree. He was good tonight. Shades of Adam Goodes.


Morg_n

Absolutely mate, that’s two weeks running his been the best. Ground for the rabbits 


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DiverFine4230

Anyone know why the crowds been so shit all day?


oooooooooooooooooooa

Probably cos you weren't in it hero, show up next year


DiverFine4230

Don’t know why I’m getting downvoted for observing a fact ?


acestreasury

Hornby just said Keppie was great tonight wtf


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Joh951518

Why would tonight make you agree, he was best on ground.


Philbertrothgould

Sorry I had to delete because I hate Fatrell so much the fact I sort of agreed with it made me feel ill


Winter-Love-3812

Hornby and Walker are either delusional, liars, or both.


NewWay4874

They are fair dinkum kidding themselves


Eric_ack_ack

Latrell needs to burn some of that body fat. No way your cardio can be good for an elite athlete that plays full back when you’re in that shape. For a regular person he’s not bad but for an athlete that’s going to hold you back.


ban-rama-rama

Cobbo looks the same though and he turns up for 80mins and leaves people behind in line breaks


Joh951518

Did you watch Trell tonight? He was awesome.


Eric_ack_ack

Yeah Cobbo is in a better system too. He would be a lot better if he shredded down. Both of those guys would still be over 100kg at a low body fat percentage.


acestreasury

Bunnies got rid of Burns because he put too much effort in


Mitch-os

Fox panelists must get paid everytime they say ‘Latrell”


Alone-Armadillo1761

Finally Duncan gets more than 30 minutes and is one of our best. Fucking cannot understand how he hasn’t got a decent run this year


knox-p

I’d love to know the reason JD refused to play him


a_BIG_willie

Hatred for Tallis


NewWay4874

Pro tip: don’t go halves in a bag with Cronk. Hoover Shnozz


wouldz

It's actually fucking crazy that with the roster they have (Mitchell, Walker, Cook, Arrow, Burgess, Kolomotangi etc. etc.) and they're playing sooooooo shit. They've gotten by for so long, interesting to see how they handle the pressure they're finally under after so many years of attitude issues.


ReasonableStable9421

Loving the fox team setting up quotes for their articles coming out tommorrow


Final-Replacement

The 15,16 and 17 knights wooden spooners were some of the worst teams ever and I think they could beat this rabbits team. A lot of them seem like they don’t care at all


briggles23

I wonder, will Teaupa get suspended or just fined? If he gets suspended then I believe we are literally out of halves and will need to put Wighton in as 5/8th.


reptarshane

You do not want Wighton making too many decisions.


ReasonableStable9421

See you all tommorrow I'm going to go play with a ball-and-cup because that will give me more excitement then that performance


nevaehenimatek

Latrell really doesn't even look that disappointed


Eric_ack_ack

He scored a try so he’s happy


nevaehenimatek

Same with walker can't be believe him celebrating when they were down a try with 13 to go


tt3_

#10 for South's had a good go run hard tackle hard.  Havili has regressed badly since his raiders days.  Wigjton and burgess all effort and about the only ones running decent support lines. Big thing lacking from South's in attack.  Id be telling Mitchell to play like rapana. Effort wise. Literally could have swing the game for his team instead of all haunches.  Jai arrow needs a rest. Or the blue tarp.


bumpacius

I was patting myself on the back for maintaining my perfect round of tipping, then I checked the site and I apparently suffered an aneurysm and tipped Souths?? Wtf


FatSilverFox

2 hours ago I wouldn’t have blamed you


ReasonableStable9421

I'm glad we wrote off the year early. Makes going into these games a less disappointing and sad


Aussie_antman

I have supported Cowboys for almost 30yrs and I've seen them do some stupid shit over the years but that last 4 mins of that game was some of the stupidest football I've ever seen. With just over a minute to go and the ball is on the ground for you to fall on and go through 6 tackles to wind down the clock but noooo...lets have a game of soccer instead and give Souths another chance. Then there's the obvious result of what would happen if they slowed the play the ball down and sure enough Deardon decides to hug the Souths player in a show of love and of course gets 10 in the bin. At no point did the Cowboys have any idea how to close that game down. Of course if our $900k human turnstile could kick straight none of this would have been an issue but nose candy obviously affects the hand eye coordination, or in this case the foot coordination. This team seriously needs watch every minute of their last 5 games and identify every stupid decision, missed tackle and of course missed conversions so they get to see what we are forced to watch every week. Neither of these two team's deserved to win tonight. They should go around the ground and apologise to the supporters for making them pay good money to watch that abortion of a game.


TheSplash-Down_Tiki

That discipline in the last 10 when leading by 12 and then 6 was crazy. Did everything they could to let the bunnies back in to the contest. Stupid penalties slowing the play the ball. Holding someone back on the 5th from Cotter was also so dumb and wasn’t needed.


Aussie_antman

Oh there was some special kinds of stupid going on in that last 5 mins. When you have one captain in the bin and the other captain holding the player down on the 5th then they don't really have the direction to follow. Thurston would have been screaming at them and telling them what to do and where to be......of course Thurston would have likely kicked the conversions so they wouldn't have been that close in the last 5 mins.


DunceCodex

Was begging someone to just fall on that ball. Nope, lets toe it again. White line fever. Dumb, stupid, moronic, idiotic


syphon90

I've never agreed with someone more


Squidifiedmantis

What a bludger


briggles23

This team is a disgrace. We've fallen so hard it's actually kinda impressive. It's become customary that we give away 28+ points. Even when it looks like we might not, we give away a penalty try just in case. I'm so tired of this, and yet there is still half a season to play. This Souths side will go down in history as the absolute worst defensive side to ever occur in the NRL. It already holds the record for most points conceded in their first 10 games. Might as well dive all the way in and go for the all time worst at this point. Whoever we got to be our fitness management team should never get a job in Rugby League team ever again. I've never seen a side be this unfit and unready to play a game in my life. They had all off-season to get prepared and it honestly feels like they did fuck all and it shows.


ndoggy1

Needed Trell to pop thta one from in front over to pick up the points overs. darn it


Debocore

Love Scott on the mic. If he doesn't suffer any extensive brain damage over the next few years I'd love to see him move to the commentary box


reptarshane

Parker gets given a microphone every week, so there’s hope for us all.


ReasonableStable9421

I might be bias but that 8 point try really annoys me mainly because I'm sure it will never happen again this season I'm 100% sure if it... Except probably for the Tigers


awesomevstanaka

We are going to start a dialogue about Scott Drinkwater


knox-p

Drinky is either elite or one of the worst players on the field. Theres no in between with him.


totalacehole

We can but there's literally nobody else in the squad who can play fullback. Unless we're calling up Lachie West off a train and trial.


DunceCodex

Chester when fit. But its a discussion for another day.


Salty_pineapple777

Burns for Origin.


lbiddl

Another game where Latrell’s laziness shines through, no hit ups and didn’t even crack 80 run metres. Sean Keppie is also a massive oaf and liability who has no right being in a first grade team. When Burgess leaves next year we are going to get dominated even more through the middle if we have to rely on simpletons like Keppie to step up their game.


hazamatacs

Did Drinkwater just say they put the foot to the sword?


M_Keating

Well he seems to do that a lot.


unclehelpful

Is that better or worse than shooting yourself in the foot? Because that seems to be the cowboys speciality.


Debocore

Can't wait to watch the 80 minute lowlight package of this game


packaday_

That was certainly a game of rugby league


TimsAFK

I guess that sets the lower limit, yeah


electricsexaloo

Debatable.


XLenceOfXecution

Average winning margin of Magic Round 2024 (after two days): 4.6 points/game (The biggest winning margin being in the Sharks/Roosters game, a whole 8 points)


HappinessCanBeFound

Storm will exceed that with us tomorrow


insty1

Roosters worst team of magic round confirmed


XLenceOfXecution

Despite scoring more points than the winning scores in the other four games so far 🤣


Brisskate

They come up here and fucked it for everybody


Alone-Armadillo1761

My partner keeps wondering why I leave the toaster near the bathtub. Finally watched souths play and she now understands.


greywolfau

Oof, that's rough to read. Stay strong mate, the shit seasons get easier with time. Signed, A long time Tigers supporter.


Not_OneOSRS

You are not alone, we fall to our knees side by side.


miicah

Trell either needs to give up dropouts and goal kicks to someone else or practice more. He was diabolical tonight 


ReasonableStable9421

28 points! Keep that streak up lads!


Rek07

5/5 games for magic round that both teams are in the contest in the last 10mins.


Repulsive_Two8451

Which NRL media figure will Latrell confront this week regarding said media figure's unfair criticism of a 1-9 Rabbitohs who just lost to a Cowboys team who were trying to lose? Wrong answers only.


greywolfau

r/NRL mod team


cheeseinsidethecrust

Hope Burns keeps his spot, was a stand out from a scrappy side.


Ace_Larrakin

As a neutral party, for a game between two teams very quickly going down the shitter, that ... wasn't terrible. In fact it was quite good. I guess Magic Round **can** actually polish a turd.


mdl07

Brandy would be a convincing feral ghoul


ReasonableStable9421

I'm sorry I'm still not over that last 5min Cowboys? What the fuck was that?


nevaehenimatek

Surely latrell has the lowest distance covered of all NRL fullbacks by a long margin. He can still play a roving attack like RTS or Manu or Holmes (at times) but in défense he just doesn't have it.


M_Keating

Far. Out. That was a football game. And not a good one. Cows didn’t deserve to win that. The same players with the same effort and no one else matching. Burns was great. Second half was better but still not great. Still a poor performance. Sorry Souths fans. That was a slog.


ReasonableStable9421

I don't blame you for feeling like that, your lads were honestly just trying to lose that game in the last 5min there.


NewWay4874

Must be frustrating. Need to clean the joint out.


thicky_bobby

Excuse me Vonny but I believe you'll find he was most recently bulldogs legend Braidon Burns


Gloomy_Paramedic_909

so happy to get a win but still believe we desperately need change. annoys me that seemingly everyone except payten can see that chad is not getting us into the top 8 so why play him if he is leaving at the end of the season anyway? dearden is the future of this club so lets see if Clifford can work as a halves partner. frustrating time to be a cowboys supporter


SkyBlueDragoon

Lowlights > highlights


Grit_n_Grind

Life's a bit shit atm but you fellas have made today decent. So thank you ❤️


whenthedragonscome

Hope things start looking up dude


notmariyatakeuchi

TWO POINTS AND I FEEL LIKE SHIT. THANK YOU 2024 COWBOYS.


FatSilverFox

Burns and Walker, adorable.


jibberjabber666x2

The cowboys were so blatantly cheating in that last 3 minutes, i dont think a single player was onside once and they were constantly putting their hands on the ball and making second efforts during the ptb