- Storm have conceded a try to a Right side CTW for the last 6 straight games
- Storm have conceded a try to a Left side CTW for the last 4 straight games
- Storm have been scored on by a 2RF for the last 5 straight games
- The Storm have conceded 25 tries in their last 4 games
- Either Sua Fa’alogo or Jack Howarth have scored in every game so far
- Will Warbrick has scored 7 tries, but only 1 in the last three games
- The Storm have only scored over 4 tries in a game once in the last 5 weeks
- Souths have conceded more tries to Fullbacks than either side CTW (5)
- No CTW position has scored twice in a game against Souths
- Souths have conceded just 3 total tries from CTWs in the last 4 games
- Alex Johnston and Latrell Mitchell have scored more tries than the rest of the Rabbitohs combined, and it’s not even close (17)
- Alex Johnston has scored every week so far. Latrell Mitchell has scored every week but one (round 2)
- The Rabbitohs have only scored less than 4 tries in a game once this season
Analysis:
Laugh at Storm fans all you want dickheads, the jokes on you because while you’re reveling in what you perceive to be our misfortune, we’ve actually never felt so alive. Is this what losing feels like? It’s not so bad after all, I don’t understand why I’ve heard so many cunts crying about this over the years. What a lovely refreshing change, actually. All those years tuning in to the NRL with absolutely no stakes; “Oh look, here come the Melbourne Storm, guess they are going to win again, yawn. How dreary”. This season feels different, who could say what is going to happen next?! I simply can’t wait for the next sporting match of Rugby League! Who knows, we may even lose again! Wouldn’t that be novel! Oh, what an exciting game, I love it muchly. Yeah, you see what I’m getting at… Eat a dick, cunt.
Losing 5 games in a row means fuck all to us in the grand scheme of kicking the living dogshit out of everyone for the past 20 years; It’s just sort of like, a bit weird and mildly disappointing for the casual Storm supporter, but for us hardcores, we’ve been tipping against our team since before the rest of you even realized we were shit, for the simple fact that we know it’s pretty much impossible to win a game of Rugby League without a forward pack. So the Storm’s recent disgraceful performances make perfect sense to us; losing Eli Katoa unexpectedly before the season started REALLY fucked us, and I hope Kristian Woolf gets incurable scabies. Then we gave big Nelson to that nice family with a farm for him to run around on and can’t take him back. Then Shawn Blore was injured, Loiero was a dumb cunt and got suspended yada yada yada, it was a whole thing. The Storm have really struggled to regain any kind of structure up front with a rotating mix of new faces in the forwards, but as of writing this, Bellyache has opted to run with the same forward configuration for the second week in a row, so maybe this is some indication that he has found his ‘forever pack’?
In any case, the Bunnies forwards haven’t exactly been living up to their names on paper, with their whopping two tries scored (in one game) so far this season. That statement applies to their attack only, by the way, they have been stingier than most teams defensively and that’s the way Wayne likes it: No flashy shit up front, just fuckin play footy, and shave that shit off ya head ya little gronk. This week however, big Fifi is out for the Bunnies and has been replaced with The Cheese of all people. I cannot tell ya how that is gonna go, or even how they are gonna line up. Fifi is on their left edge if that helps, but whoever is on their right edge has their own VIP area set up over the Storm’s tryline where they can go to just get away from it all and chill, so assuming The Cheese is straight swapping with Fifita, that gives Tallis Duncan a special wristband. He has been the weaker defender though, so both Storm edge runners also have a decent shot at getting on the board. The forwards are always the riskier option though, especially since both of these cunts do most of their business through their outside backs.
Speaking of, how is this for a statistic? Alex Johnston and Latrell Mitchell have scored more tries than the fucking Dragons. They are good for at least two between them here, but Jack Wighton and Campbell Graham will never get a better chance to go ballistic on a team that has given up 7 tries in the last four games to right side CTWs.
The Storm’s CTWs will have a fuckin hard time of it, but oh my, you definitely get on Sua Fa’alogo to do his thing here and do not regret it.
Storm Try Scorers: Sua Fa’alogo, Will Warbrick, Cooper Clarke/Joe Chan
Rabbitohs Try Scorers: Alex Johnston/Latrell Mitchell, Jack Wighton/Campbell Graham, Tallis Duncan
Degen Bets: Wighton/Duncan FTS, Warbrick/Clarke FTS, AJ/Trell 2+, Sua Fa’alogo 2+, Brandon Smith, Harry Grant
