- Keaon Koloamatangi will miss the rest of the year with injury
- Prop has been the Rabbitohs’ best player during this season
South Sydney’s horror season has gone from bad to worse, with star prop Keaon Koloamatangi to miss the rest of the year with an ankle injury.
Easily the Rabbitohs’ best player in a disastrous 2025 campaign, Koloamatangi will require surgery on his syndesmosis after being hurt in Friday’s loss to Penrith.
His injury will leave him in an overflowing South Sydney casualty ward, that includes Latrell Mitchell, Cody Walker, Cameron Murray and Brandon Smith.
The front-rower’s injury comes as the club – stuck close to the bottom of the ladder after seven straight losses – battles to avoid a first wooden spoon since 2006.
Making matters worse for the Rabbitohs is news that hooker Peter Mamouzelos will also miss Saturday’s clash with Cronulla due to a concussion.
The Rabbitohs’ season had appeared cursed from the moment Murray and Mitchell went down with serious injuries within minutes of each other at training in February.
Keaon Koloamatangi (pictured) will miss the rest of the year with an ankle injury
The Souths prop Koloamatangi will require surgery on his syndesmosis after being hurt in Friday’s loss to Penrith
Mitchell missed the first four rounds with a hamstring tear, and has managed only 10 games for the Rabbitohs this season before his latest shoulder issue.
Murray, meanwhile, has not played a game all year after a pre-season ruptured achilles tendon.
Walker has only played eight games, Campbell Graham 11, Tyrone Munro seven and mid-season recruit Smith re-injured his knee on return from an ACL rupture.
Mikaele Ravalawa, Jayden Sullivan and Davvy Moale are among other Rabbitohs players currently sidelined.
It comes as Wayne Bennett is fighting to avoid his worst finish in 38 years of coaching in the premiership, having never ended a season lower than 13th on the ladder.
