Rugby league: Warriors thumped by South Sydney Rabbitohs as NRL nightmare continues
Forget all the talk about the Warriors getting additional home games in New Zealand next year, or other initiatives to repay their sacrifices over the last three seasons.
Here’s a better suggestion: can they just not face South Sydney at all in 2023?
The Rabbitohs have been a perennial nightmare for the New Zealand team over the last decade, and that pain continued on Saturday with a stinging 48-10 defeat.
The Warriors had only beaten the Sydney side once in the last 12 encounters – dating back to 2013 – and never looked likely on the Sunshine Coast, after an awful start, that was almost a carbon copy of the Magic Round clash in May, where they trailed 26-6 at halftime before a improbable comeback.
On Saturday, Souths led 36-6 after 40 minutes, though the Warriors at least showed some heart after the interval to restrict too much further damage on the scoreboard.
This was the fifth consecutive encounter that the Rabbitohs put on 30 points or more against the Warriors, a run that South Sydney haven’t managed against any opponent since before World War II.
It was a disaster from the start.
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