Souths boss Jason Demetriou makes stunning confession as calls grow for him to be sacked NOW after horror start to season
- Rabbits beaten 54-20 by Melbourne
- I only have one win left in eight games
- The pressure on Demetriou is immense
South Sydney coach Jason Demetriou admits he has “no idea” whether club officials will give him the time he thinks he needs to turn his team’s fortunes around, with a board meeting scheduled to take place. administration next week to address its future.
Demetriou knows the heat is coming after a horror show in Melbourne on Thursday night, with the 54-20 defeat to the Storm extending a 19-year drought in Victoria.
The HI side conceded their biggest score of the year, giving up 10 tries, and Souths now anchor the NRL standings with just one win after entering round eight hoping to show signs of improvement.
After returning from bye, Demetriou had outlined a five-week plan to get his team back on its feet, but he might not have much time.
Calls for Demetriou to be removed immediately are growing louder after Souths produced their worst defensive performance of the season in their 54-20 defeat to Melbourne on Thursday.
Rabbitohs players are pictured looking dejected after dropping one of 10 tries against the Storm.
“I love coaching this club, I love coaching this team and I will come and continue to give my best. If someone taps me on the shoulder and says time is up, I can’t “I can’t control that,” he said after the heavy defeat. , categorically, their season was “recoverable”.
“I told the players, the talks are over, we have to keep our promises, we have to achieve this.
“That won’t change unless we start putting in performances that get the results we want, but, more importantly, performances that we know we are capable of.
“There are times in this game where we come back to 36-20, we showed a lot of determination, but it was again either side of halftime, three weeks in a row, that we left the game unfold.
“The players need to take ownership of this, take ownership of their own performances and start executing the things that we know we can.”
Demetriou and his players (pictured) have a five-week plan to stop their free fall – but the coach admitted he doesn’t know if he will last that long.
The next four weeks include clashes with the Panthers, then winnable games against teams outside the eight, the Dragons, Cowboys and Eels.
“We set ourselves a five-week plan to get better and we’re going to stay with it because it’s not going to get better overnight, in a week, but it will get better,” Demetriou said.
Demetriou insisted he could already see an impact after former assistant David Furner joined the team last week as defense coach despite the massive scoreline in Melbourne.
“David came in and did a good job, he did what was necessary to make sure we identified the areas we need to be better at,” he said.
“We trained for it but we didn’t put it on the pitch and that’s the difference at the moment.”
