Your men’s South Sydney Rabbitohs finished the 2022 NRL season in a relatively lowly seventh place with a 14-10 record, a slight underperformance of the Pythagorean expected wins of 14.7. The Bunnies had the sixth best attack, cracking 600 points, and conceded 474, the second worst of all finals teams. Souths went the hard way… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2022 South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs finished the season in third on the ladder, with a 20-4 record that would be worthy of recognition had not one, but two, other teams gone one better. With 775 points scored and 453 conceded, the Rabbitohs were only good for 17.6 Pythagorean wins, meaning the 20 actual wins accrued is… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2021 South Sydney Rabbitohs
Finally, an interesting team to pull apart: I have a quiet confidence in Souths’ premiership aspirations but questions remain unanswered. Souths’ spine is projected to be a full five Taylors per game better than Melbourne’s, which is next best, so it is little surprise that the Rabbitohs are the mostly heavily biased to their playmakers.… Read More A Shallow Dive into the 2020 South Sydney Rabbitohs
On their return to the competition in 2002, South Sydney sucked. A lot. The 2003 and 2006 Rabbitohs were among the worst all-time NRL sides, winning just three games a piece. In 2007, the tide turned with a moderately successful recruitment drive, lifting Souths to a .500 win percentage. Souths would be just on the cusp… Read More The Renaissance of South Sydney
Background In the tumult of the instigation of the National Rugby League, one of Sydney’s oldest and most successful clubs was on the chopping block after years of below average performance on and off the field. Needing to rationalise the competition to fourteen teams in 2000, the NRL took the decisive step of excluding South… Read More Club Report – South Sydney Rabbitohs
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