Following a terrible start to the season, Souths manager Jason Demetriou makes a startling admission that fuels growing calls for his immediate firing.

With a board meeting scheduled for next week to discuss his future, South Sydney coach Jason Demetriou has acknowledged that he has “no idea” if club management would give him the time he believes he needs to turn around his team’s fortunes.

Demetriou is aware that things will get hotter following Thursday night’s horror show in Melbourne, where the Storm defeated them 54–20, extending Victoria’s 19-year winning streak.

His team gave up ten tries, its highest score of the year, and now sits atop the NRL table with just one victory. Going into round eight, the Souths were hoping to turn things around.
Demetriou had laid up a five-week schedule upon his return from the bye to get his club back on track, but he might not have that much time.

a long time.

After the crushing loss, he insisted that their season was still “salvageable,” saying, “I love coaching this club, love coaching this team, and I’ll turn up and keep giving my best and if someone taps me on the shoulder and says that time’s up, I can’t control that.”

“The players need to deliver and finish what we started. The talk is over.”

Until we begin to provide performances that yield the desired outcomes—and, more crucially, performances that we know we are capable of—things won’t change.

There were moments in that game where we rallied to come back to 36–20 and played with a lot of commitment, but for three weeks running, we’ve allowed the game to get away from us either side of halftime.

Proceed.

“The players need to start doing the things we know we can do and take some responsibility for that as well as their own performances.”

The Panthers with winnable games against the Dragons, Cowboys, and Eels are among the clubs that might make the playoffs over the next four weeks.

It won’t get better in a single night or week, but we’ll stick to the five-week plan we made for ourselves to improve, according to Demetriou.

Despite the overwhelming score in Melbourne, Demetriou maintained he could already notice a difference since former assistant David Furner returned to the team last week as the defense coach.

David entered the scene and completed the task at hand with excellence.

necessary to ensure that we’re recognizing the areas in which we still need to improve,’ he stated.

“The difference right now is that even though we trained there, we didn’t apply it on the field.”