Smashed: Rabbitohs make bunnies of Warriors

The Warriors were blown away by the Rabbitohs at Sunshine Coast Stadium, losing 48-10 in yet another disappointing performance this season.

In the buildup, Warriors’ players talked about being up for this game, even though there was nothing to play for last evening, but there wasn’t any evidence of that as it was one-way traffic from the first minute to the 80th.

You have to feel for Stacey Jones, who watched on, frustrated, from the coach’s box. He was thrown a hospital pass when Nathan Brown quit the team and inherited a squad who have lost their way.

Whatever happens over the remaining month of the season, it shouldn’t tarnish Jones’ reputation as a coach.

He knew what he was walking into when agreeing to take the job, but his loyalty to the club

probably meant he couldn’t turn it down.

But it would have hurt him to see a game like this, as it would have been for anyone who has cheered on the club.

It was all too easy for the Rabbitohs to make ground in every tackle in every set, while for the Warriors each metre seemed a huge battle.

One of the few positive from a Warriors point of view was hooker Freddy Lussick.

The 21-year-old had a huge game on defence, something not many of his team-mates could say, while he was also lively with his distribution at dummy half.

Edward Kosi also played pretty well on the left wing. But aside from these two, there are few in the Warriors who can hold their heads high.

It didn’t take long for the Rabbitohs to score the first try, with Lachlan Ilias running through a horrendously big gap between Bayley Sironen and Wayde Egan close to their goalline.

The Rabbitohs’ second try came in the 10th minute. Cameron Murray made the break after receiving a pass from Damien Cook. After making ground he returned the ball to Cook, who went 30m to score.

The big moment

Lachlan Ilias’s try for the Rabbitohs in the third minute.

It was all downhill for the

The big picture

stunned Warriors after that.

Match rating: 4/10

This wasn’t even close to being a contest and it’s not as if the Rabbitohs were playing incredible footy either.

Incoming Warriors coach Andrew Webster is enjoying a run to the finals with the Panthers right now, but he got a reminder what he’s in for. The fans will be hoping he doesn’t do a backflip for ‘family reasons’.