Wayne Bennett Calls Souths’ 42-38 Loss Crazy After Knights Win

Souths lost 42-38 to the Knights, and wayne bennett was blunt about why it got away. He called the game “crazy” after both teams spent too much time trying to outscore each other and too little time defending.

Wayne Bennett on Souths

“Oh, crazy,” Bennett said after the match. Souths had fought back from 24-0, but he said they gave the game away a couple of times after getting in front and still could not close it out.

“That team’s really brave. That’s one of their pluses. They couldn’t have tried any harder at the end there and gave it away a couple of times and find a way to get in front in the end and then still gave it away,” he said.

Field Position and Momentum

Cameron Murray said the scoreline fit a season where momentum has flipped quickly in high-scoring games. “There’s been some pretty high-scoring games this year, so momentum can shift pretty fast and when you have momentum, it’s hard for the other team to win it back,” he said.

He added that it can feel simple once a side gets rolling. “It’s just so important to find that momentum early because it’s hard to win it back and it almost seems easy when you’ve got it,” Murray said. “It’s just the game’s turned it into one of those moments where if you win good field position, if you’ve got the momentum, it makes it much easier for you to score points.”

Souths After Eight Weeks

Bennett said Souths were already into the season’s eighth week and still sorting out what works for them. “Well, the good thing about the team, they know what they’ve got to do,” he said. “They know what wins for them and they know what loses for them okay and eight weeks into the season and we’ve had some really good wins and we’ve had a couple of poor losses.”

He added that Souths’ biggest loss had been by four points, which matched the margin on this one after Latrell Mitchell’s conversion of his own try appeared to have stolen a famous win. That finish never held, and Bennett said the problem was shared: “But it was like both teams just wanted to outscore each other today and they forgot to defend too, so it wasn’t just us.”

The result leaves Souths with another four-point loss in a season Bennett says has already included several tight finishes. For a team that had rallied from 24-0, the late swing at the Knights showed how little room there is for mistakes when the scoreboard keeps moving that fast.