Melbourne Storm captain and hooker Cameron Smith

Melbourne Storm v South Sydney Rabbitohs Stats

The Melbourne Storm and South Sydney Rabbitohs have played each other on 31 occasions; the Storm have won 26 games, the Rabbitohs 5 games and there have been no draws.

The Melbourne Storm are currently undefeated at AAMI Park against the South Sydney Rabbitohs (8 wins, 0 losses). The Storm have scored 216 points to the Rabbitohs 90 points at the venue.

The Rabbitohs have won just twice against the Storm in their last nine games.

The first game played between the two sides was a 14-6 win for the Melbourne Storm in round 10, 1998.

Biggest Wins

The Melbourne Storm’s biggest win against the South Sydney Rabbitohs was a resounding 64-6 success in round 25, 2017.

The South Sydney Rabbitohs’ biggest win over the Melbourne Storm was a 41-14 success in round 13, 2003.

Former Melbourne Storm fullback Billy Slater

Top try-scorer in this clash

Billy Slater (MEL) – 15
Matt Geyer (MEL) – 10
Greg Inglis (MEL/SOU) – 8
Nathan Merritt (SOU) – 7
Suliasi Vunivalu (MEL) – 6
Josh Addo-Carr (MEL) – 6
Cameron Smith (MEL) – 5
Alex Johnston (SOU) – 5
David Kidwell (MEL/SOU) – 4
Jake Webster (MEL) – 4

Most prolific point-scorer in this clash

Cameron Smith (MEL) – 5 tries, 75 goals & 1 field goal (171 pts)
Matt Orford (MEL) – 2 tries & 26 goals (62 pts)
Billy Slater (MEL) – 15 tries (60 pts)
Matt Geyer (MEL) – 10 tries & 9 goals (58 pts)
Adam Reynolds (SOU) – 1 try & 2 goals (54 pts)
Nathan Merritt (SOU) – 7 tries & 2 goals (32 pts)
Greg Inglis (MEL/SOU) – 8 tries (32 pts)

Players to have played for both sides from this clash

  1. Brad Watts – 1999-2001 (MEL) & 2002-2005 (SOU)
  2. David Kidwell – 2003-2006 (MEL) & 2007-2009 (SOU)
  3. Luke MacDougall – 2003-2006 (SOU) & 2010 (MEL)
  4. Matt King – 2003-2007 (MEL) & 2012-2013 (SOU)
  5. Greg Inglis – 2005-2010 (MEL) & 2011-2019 (SOU)
  6. Jaiman Lowe – 2006-2010 (SOU) & 2011-2012 (MEL)
  7. Michael Greenfield – 2006-2008 (SOU) & 2012 (MEL)
  8. Chris Walker – 2003 (SOU) & 2006 (MEL)
  9. Michael Crocker – 2006-2008 (MEL) & 2009-2013 (SOU)
  10. Jeff Lima – 2006-2010 (MEL) & 2013 (SOU)
  11. Beau Champion – 2005-2010 & 2013-2014 (SOU) & 2011 (MEL)
  12. Garrett Crossman – 2006-2007 (MEL) & 2009-2010 (SOU)
  13. Dane Nielsen – 2008-2012 (MEL) & 2016 (SOU)
  14. Mark Nicholls – 2017 (MEL) & 2018-2019 (SOU)

Players to have been sin-binned/sent-off from this clash

  1. William Leyshon (MEL) & Paul Stringer (SOU) both sin-binned in round 15, 2002.
  2. Michael Crocker (MEL) sin-binned in round 9, 2006.
  3. Billy Slater (MEL) sin-binned in round 6, 2013.

Head coaching records

Chris Anderson (MEL) – 2/2 (100%)
Mark Murray (MEL) – 1/1 (100%)
Arthur Kitinas (MEL) – 1/1 (100%)
Craig Bellamy (MEL) – 23/28 (81.4%)
Anthony Seibold (SOU) – 1/2 (50%)
Paul Langmack (SOU) – 1/3 (33.3%)
Michael Maguire (SOU) – 1/10 (10%)
John Lang (MEL) – 0/3 (0%)
Steve Martin (MEL) – 0/1 (0%)
Wayne Bennett (SOU) – 0/1 (0%)
Craig Coleman (SOU) – 0/2 (0%)
Shaun McRae (SOU) – 0/3 (0%)
Jason Taylor (SOU) – 0/5 (0%)

Players to have scored three or more tries in one game in this clash

  1. Wise Kativerata (SOU) scored three tries in round 13, 2003.
  2. Jake Webster (MEL) scored three tries in round 6, 2004.
  3. Billy Slater (MEL) scored three tries in round 16, 2005.
  4. Josh Addo-Carr (MEL) scored three tries in round 25, 2017.
  5. Suliasi Vunivalu (MEL) scored three tries in round 25, 2017.
  6. Campbell Graham (SOU) scored three tries in round 21, 2019.

 

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