{"id":673464,"date":"2026-05-15T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:24:12","slug":"nrl-2026-wayne-bennett-press-conference-after-rabbitohs-loss-to-dolphins-latrell-mitchell-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673464\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Wayne Bennett press conference after Rabbitohs loss to Dolphins, Latrell Mitchell injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Sydney\u2019s inconsistency has almost got to the stage of being \u201cembarrassing\u201d according to Wayne Bennett as the Rabbitohs coach also gave an update on a hobbled Latrell Mitchell.<\/p>\n

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While all the headlines out of Friday night\u2019s loss to the Dolphins<\/a> surrounded the superstar Souths centre, Bennett delivered a welcome message to Blues coach Laurie Daley in his post-game press conference.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s okay, he\u2019s not too bad. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything serious there,\u201d Bennett said, with fears Mitchell may have re-aggravated the back injury which sidelined him last week. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe just kind of cramped up a bit. Nothing major… with a 12-day turnaround I think he\u2019ll be alright.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it doesn\u2019t sound like Rabbitohs fans will have to worry about Mitchell\u2019s health, Bennett admitted there are plenty of reasons to be concerned with their up-and-down form.<\/p>\n

South Sydney was coming off a dominant win over Cronulla, having already followed up their statement victory against Melbourne last month with a high-scoring loss to Newcastle.<\/p>\n

It has left the seven-time premiership winning coach lost for answers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve had three really good wins and next week we\u2019ve turned up and played rubbish,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201c… It\u2019s worse than frustrating. It just kind of gets to the embarrassing stage because there is no logic to why they\u2019re doing it except what\u2019s probably happening in their heads through the week, happy with themselves, I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an obvious trend right now, so we\u2019ve got to get on top of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rabbitohs skipper Cameron Murray echoed his coach\u2019s concerns, telling reporters that while the players need to get to the bottom of the problem it is a \u201chard one to put your finger on\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you spend too much time thinking about it, you\u2019re probably not thinking about what you need to think about, which is the next week and being consistent the next week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we\u2019ve just got to try and fight and win it back I guess and turn up every week and play the footy we know we can play. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe speak pretty consistently about the blueprint of how we know we can play and what works for us. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s just a matter of doing a week in, week out. (There are) a lot of inconsistencies around what we\u2019re saying and what we\u2019re not doing out in the field. So, we\u2019ve just got to train good and play good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Sydney\u2019s inconsistency has almost got to the stage of being \u201cembarrassing\u201d according to Wayne Bennett as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-673464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673464","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=673464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}