Nick Markham | Rugbyleaguelive.com | 04/05/08 | 0
Souths' have a coach that no-one rates, are dead certainties to collect the wooden spoon, their forward pack has no ticker, and fellow NRL players avoid the club like the plague.
That's the opinion of the Rabbitohs NRL peers, according to a recent survey.
The survey of 100 current NRL players, published in The Sun Herald, paints winless South Sydney in the most unflattering of lights.
Similar surveys from varying sources are published throughout the NRL season, and most often cause some degree of controversy, but no side in recent memory has been the subject of such utter derision.
The Rabbitohs forward pack, filled predominantly by representative players including Roy Asotasi, David Kidwell, David Fa'alogo and John Sutton, is rated as the league's softest by 26 out of the 100 survey participants.
The next largest figure is the Warriors with eight, making the Bunnies an overwhelming selection for the league's weakest pack of forwards.
But it doesn't stop there.
Jason Taylor, a coach with an unblemished record when it comes his sides reaching the finals, is rated as coach no-one wants to play for by 19 percent of survey participants, out-polling even the much-maligned Brian Smith of Newcastle.
And the ultimate insult, 87 out of the 100 players polled were of the opinion that the bunnies had already booked themselves a one-way ticket to wooden-spoon territory.
Such results beg the question, Is South Sydney the worst NRL side ever ?
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