The Rabbitohs honoured club legend John Sattler with an emotion-charged win over Manly and they will look to carry that momentum into another home clash against the Melbourne Storm in Round 5.
Led by the inspirational Cameron Murray and the mercurial Cody Walker, the Bunnies fought back from 12-6 down at half-time to force the game to golden point where Lachlan Ilias came of age with the first field goal of his career.
The challenge for coach Jason Demetriou is to ensure his men harness the pride and passion that carried them to victory on Saturday night and can use it to their advantage against one of the benchmark teams of the past two decades.
The Storm have gone W-L-L-W to start the season and looked shaky at times but the return of Cameron Munster has given them the impetus to string some victories together and have the eight teams above them on the ladder feeling nervous.
Craig Bellamy's men can make a huge statement over the next month as they face the Rabbitohs, Roosters, Sea Eagles and Warriors leading into a bye in Round 9.
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Team News
Rabbitohs: No late changes for South Sydney, with prop Hame Sele returning from concussion protocols via the bench. Utility Blake Taaffe is the replacement player.
Storm: Tariq Sims dropped off the bench to become the replacement player before kick-off, with Grant Anderson joining the interchange in his place. The Storm are otherwise as named, with just one other change to the team that beat Wests Tigers, with Tom Eisenhuth joining the bench after being 18th man last week.
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Stat Attack
- The Rabbitohs will be playing for back-to-back wins over the Storm for the first time.
- The Storm have won seven of their past eight games against the Rabbitohs.
- Rabbitohs winger Alex Johnston has scored 22 tries in his past 13 games at Accor Stadium.
- Storm fullback Nick Meaney has scored six tries in his past seven NRL games.
- The Rabbitohs have won six of their past eight games at Accor Stadium.
Stats supplied by David Middleton, League Information Services, author of the .