2025 R9 MAGIC Sat - South Sydney 4-30 Newcastle @ Suncorp

[League Unlimited News]

NRL 2025 - Round 9
South Sydney Rabbitohs v Newcastle Knights
Suncorp Stadium, Milton / Yuggera-Turrbal

Saturday 3 May 2025
NRL kickoff 3:00pm.
Live on Fox, Kayo, Nine, 9Now

1. Jye Gray 2. Bayleigh Bentley-Hape 3. Euan Aitken 4. Campbell Graham 5. Isaiah Tass 6. Jack Wighton 7. Jayden Sullivan 8. Sean Keppie 9. Peter Mamouzelos 10. Tevita Tatola 11. Keaon Koloamatangi 12. Tallis Duncan 13. Jai Arrow
14. Liam Le Blanc 15. Lachlan Hubner 16. Davvy Moale 17. Fletcher Myers
18. Thomas Fletcher 19. Lewis Dodd 20. Joshua Schuster 21. Salesi Ataata 22. Nazareth Taua

Out: Latrell Mitchell (fullback), Siliva Havili (bench), Lewis Dodd (to reserve)
In: Liam Le Blanc (bench), Lachlan Hubner (bench), Fletcher Myers (bench)
Changes: Jack Wighton (centre to five-eighth), Jye Gray (five-eighth to fullback), Euan Aitken (second row to centre), Tallis Duncan (bench to second row)

1. Kalyn Ponga 2. James Schiller 3. Dane Gagai 4. Bradman Best 5. Greg Marzhew 6. Fletcher Sharpe 7. Jack Cogger 8. Jacob Saifiti 9. Phoenix Crossland 10. Leo Thompson 11. Dylan Lucas 12. Kai Pearce-Paul 13. Tyson Frizell
14. Jayden Brailey 15. Mathew Croker 16. Adam Elliott 17. Brodie Jones
18. Thomas Cant 19. Tyson Gamble 20. Kyle McCarthy 21. Matthew Arthur 22. Tyrone Thompson

Out: Thomas Cant, Tyrone Thompson (to reserve)
In: Jacob Saifiti (front row), Adam Elliott (bench)
Changes: Tyson Frizell (front row to lock), Jayden Brailey (hooker to bench), Mat Croker (lock to bench), Phoenix Crossland (bench to hooker)

Referee: Liam Kennedy
Sideline Officials: Jon Stone, TBC
Video Referee: Ashley Klein

HEAD TO HEAD - 1988 - 2024​

	TOTAL	SOUTH SYDNEY	NEWCASTLE	DRAWN
ALL MATCHES	48	19	29	0
SUNCORP	0	0	0	0

LAST FIVE MEETINGS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
2020	Qualifying Final	SOUTH SYDNEY 46-20	ANZ	17212
2021	Round 14	SOUTH SYDNEY 24-10	ANZ	12156
2022	Round 17	SOUTH SYDNEY 40-28	McD. Jones	18621
2023	Round 25	NEWCASTLE 29-10	McD. Jones	29018
2024	Round 25	NEWCASTLE 36-16	Accor	9659

BIGGEST WINS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
1999	Round 23	NEWCASTLE 60-0	Marathon	21820
2015	Round 20	SOUTH SYDNEY 52-6	ANZ	14603

NEXT FOUR MATCHES​

	Round 10	Round 11	Round 12	Round 13
SOUTH SYDNEY	BRISBANE (H)	WESTS TIGERS (A)	(BYE)	WARRIORS (H)
NEWCASTLE	GOLD COAST (H)	PARRAMATTA (H)	PENRITH (A)	ST GEO ILLA (A)

LAST THREE MATCHES​

	Round 6		Round 7		Round 8
SOUTH SYDNEY	NORTH QLD	L 16-24	CANTERBURY	L 0-32	MELBOURNE	L 16-24
NEWCASTLE	WESTS TIGERS	L 4-20	CRONULLA	L 14-34	WARRIORS	L 12-26

STATE OF PLAY: 2025 SEASON​

	POSITION	PLAYED	BYES	W-L-D	FOR	AGAINST
SOUTH SYDNEY	11th	8	0	4-4-0	133	177
NEWCASTLE	15th	7	1	2-5-0	72	146

 

[yobbo84]

This match is what happens when a stoppable force meets a moveable object.

 

[Apey]

Can Souths score 3 tries?

 

[speedster]

This match is what happens when a stoppable force meets a moveable object.

Souths defended well against Melbourne while the Knights attack continues to be constipated. I think the Knights are more stoppable than Souths are moveable.

Or are Souths the stoppables and Knights the moveables?

 

[speedster]

Can Souths score 3 tries?

Just?

 

[Valheru]

Souths

They can eek out some points when they get the opportunity and the Knights will keep them in it by scoring no more than 8 points to the 70th minute mark

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Unless Ponga suddenly explodes and has a MOTM game, I can't give Newy much of a chance at all. Bennett especially will make sure they're up for this.

 

[This Year?]

The Knights fans hate of Wayne Bennett will be a highlight of the thread.
Some of the best posts in this forum are meltdowns and if there's any that get close to the classic Kiwi post it'll make my night.

 

[mozza91]

Wait Wayne survived his dire tooth injury? That’s a shame.

 

[yobbo84]

Wait Wayne survived his dire tooth injury? That’s a shame.

He's officially a Souths man now!

 

[mozza91]

He's officially a Souths man now!

Nah the fact he had the tooth to begin with means he’s a just a poser.

 

[yobbo84]

Well, he's completely lost me with that 17 named. He flat out does not rate Lewis Dodd, I guess.

 

[Woody90]

Knights side named is a lot better than it has been with some middles finally returning but Souths will still get the win. Tbh at the moment I can’t envision a situation where we ever win another game.

There should be a rule for magic round where a team can be disqualified for not being able to score any points.

 

[Apey]

Wayne calling Hornby with the team list.

 

[mozza91]

Just saw who the ref is. Congrats Souths.

 

[speedster]

Just saw who the ref is. Congrats Souths.

Yeah, well I just noticed who the video ref is so that evens that out I guess.

 

[speedster]

Well, he's completely lost me with that 17 named. He flat out does not rate Lewis Dodd, I guess.

I was worried about a Dodd-Sullivan combo and thought we needed more creativity at 5/8 but thought it was time to give Dodd the starting 7 gig on the back of his kicking game and just to give the kid a shot.

Then again, he has appeared timid and reluctant to impose himself in the play when he's been on.

Not a good weekend to be conservative I suspect.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Cogger vs Sullivan.

God help us all

 

[mozza91]

Cogger vs Sullivan.

God help us all

Sullivan is better. Only Ilias is on Cogger’s tier of shitness amongst current NRL halves.

 

[soc123_au]

Sullivan is better. Only Ilias is on Cogger’s tier of shitness amongst current NRL halves.

Premiership winning NRL halves***