{"id":3168,"date":"2025-07-18T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3168\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:04:07","slug":"wayne-bennett-on-injury-woes-keaon-koloamatangi-peter-mamouzelos-latrell-mitchell-rabbitohs-vs-panthers-round-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3168\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Bennett on injury woes, Keaon Koloamatangi, Peter Mamouzelos, Latrell Mitchell, Rabbitohs vs Panthers, Round 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Souths coach Wayne Bennett joked he is too scared to ask his medical staff about injured players after Keaon Koloamatangi joined the club\u2019s bulging casualty ward list.<\/p>\n<p>FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=nrl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Limited-time offer &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Souths went down 30-10 to the Panthers, with Koloamatangi suffering an ankle injury and Peter Mamouzelos copping a head knock in the defeat. <\/p>\n<p>The latest injury blows came on the back of Latrell Mitchell going down with a quad injury at training during the week and Cody Walker all but being ruled out for the season. <\/p>\n<p>Bennett was asked if there was anyone coming back next week to help the cause. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell I\u2019m not game to ask, I hate being disappointed,\u201d Bennett said. <\/p>\n<p>Bennett was pressed if he had ever encountered anything like Souths\u2019 injury woes in all his years in coaching. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah well I mean we\u2019re talking top players here as well so yeah but I was proud of their effort here tonight,\u201d Bennett said. <\/p>\n<p>MORE NRL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>\u2018COMPLETELY DISAGREE\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-newcastle-knights-kalyn-ponga-future-adam-obrien-future-news-matty-johns-and-andrew-johns-opinions-videos-highlights\/news-story\/b9ce6e6e10c008f108ce066b48e7e20d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Johns brothers split on Ponga amid Joey\u2019s O\u2019Brien claim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018WHY WOULDN\u2019T I?\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/why-wouldnt-i-warriors-stars-manager-opens-up-on-r360-links-as-another-star-joins-target-list\/news-story\/e4c4b9f93d0c5777f08bd16201f55edf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Shock reveal over Warriors star\u2019s links to rebel league <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018WHERE DID YOU CRY?\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-fletch-and-hindy-try-rugby-league-2026-video-game-fletch-and-hindy-segment-matty-johns-show-news-videos-highlights-2009-nrl-grand-final-storm-eels\/news-story\/e86b3ab45385e4cd5ef2ff97c55bb37c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Fletch\u2019s brutal Hindy sledge as he relives Eels heartbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Wighton and Wayne Bennett.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to turn up and put a lot of effort in the game which we did, but there\u2019s no one that changeroom in there that was disappointed with their effort.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bennett revealed Mamouzelos will be out for a week due to concussion, but would await scans on Koloamatangi. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPete will be out for a week at least due to concussion,\u201d Bennett said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeaon has got an ankle problem we just don\u2019t know how bad it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett admitted Koloamatangi has been his side\u2019s best player this year and would be a massive loss. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah he has, well anyway it\u2019s just the way it\u2019s gone at the moment so we\u2019ll see how long he\u2019s out for,\u201d Bennett said. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of the 2025 NRL Women\u2019s Premiership LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Limited-time offer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fitzy all praise for Sharks&#8217; physicality | 08:36<\/p>\n<p>However, in some bright news for Souths, Bennett is hopeful Latrell Mitchell will be back in four games. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are talking four weeks,\u201d Bennett said. <\/p>\n<p>Souths skipper Jack Wighton praised his side\u2019s effort in trying times for the club. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah effort you can\u2019t fault,\u201d Wighton said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were brave for so long in the game and I\u2019ll take a little bit of ownership as one of the senior players and kicking game and finishing the sets. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Don&#8217;t get how that wasn&#8217;t overturned?&#8217; | 01:10<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat compounds the pressure and that\u2019s when we break in the little moments but effort wise I couldn\u2019t be prouder of the lads. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we just need to ice the little things mate and get a little bit of luck sometimes too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wighton admitted Koloamatangi would be a huge loss, but believes his team needs any all hands on deck to weather the storm. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cHe\u2019s led the way massively but every man at the moment is a big loss isn\u2019t it?\u201d Wighton said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re backs against the wall and down on troops but we just keep on turning up.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Souths coach Wayne Bennett joked he is too scared to ask his medical staff about injured players after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[1813,64,63,4740,4747,1653,4738,4565,4741,4739,4743,4578,4744,1082,4588,4746,4742,761,762,158,4598,1079,4439,85,1080,4745,4737,1651],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-ankle-injury","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bulging-casualty-ward","tag-casualty-ward-list","tag-cody-walker","tag-craig-fitzgibbon","tag-cronulla-sharks","tag-injured-players","tag-injury-blows","tag-injury-woes","tag-jack-wighton","tag-kicking-game","tag-latrell-mitchell","tag-limited-time-offer","tag-mark-st-john","tag-medical-staff","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-penrith-panthers","tag-quad-injury","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sports","tag-sydney-roosters","tag-things-mate","tag-trent-robinson","tag-wayne-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}