Saturday second NRL Round 20 match is between Gold Coast Titans and South Sydney Rabbitohs with the opening kick to commence at 7:30pm local time. The game is to be played at Skilled Park which see’s away team South Sydney Rabbitohs hold favouritism in the market. View our NRL live scores, odds and results for the game between Gold Coast Titans and South Sydney Rabbitohs.

WHERE AND WHEN: Skilled Park, 27th July, 7:30pm

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Opening odds comparison:

Gold Coast Titans	3.20	3.25	3.20	3.25	3.20	3.22
South Sydney Rabbitohs	1.35	1.35	1.37	1.35	1.35	1.36

Preview:

The Gold Coast take on South Sydney on Saturday, 7.30pm at Skilled Park. The mighty Rabbitohs had an unexpected loss last week to the Dragons, with an extra-time match putting the premiership in jeopardy for South Sydney. While the Titans are playing quite well at the moment, the Rabbitohs will be extra keen to win here and hang on to top spot. The Titans will benefit from the return of Origin players Greg Bird and Nate Myles, but even if all their players are in top form, it will be tough going against what is a hungry South Sydney side.

Teams:

Gold Coast Titans:

1 Jordan Rankin
2 Kevin Gordon
3 Brad Takairangi
4 Jamie Dowling
5 David Mead
6 Aidan Sezer
7 Albert Kelly
8 Luke Bailey
9 Matt Srama
10 Nate Myles (c)
11 Greg Bird (c)
12 Mark Minichiello
13 Ashley Harrison

Interchange
14 David Taylor
15 Luke Douglas
16 Ben Ridge
17 Beau Falloon
18 Ryan James
19 Luke O’Dwyer

Coach: John Cartwright

South Sydney Rabbitohs:

1 Justin Hunt
2 Nathan Merritt
3 Bryson Goodwin
4 Dylan Walker
5 Andrew Everingham
6 John Sutton (c)
7 Adam Reynolds
8 Dave Tyrrell
9 Issac Luke
10 Roy Asotasi
11 Chris McQueen
12 Ben Te’o
13 Sam Burgess

Interchange
14 Nathan Peats
15 Ben Lowe
16 Jeff Lima
17 George Burgess

Coach: Michael Maguire

Souths deny being too reliant on Inglis

John Sutton denies South Sydney are over-reliant on Greg Inglis after the NRL ladder-leaders slipped to their third defeat this season following Monday night’s loss to struggling St George Illawarra.

Inglis has been ruled out for six-to-eight weeks after damaging his posterior cruciate ligaments in last week’s State of Origin decider.

In the Queensland superstar’s absence Souths produced their least effective display of the season as the Dragons ran out 22-18 winners in golden point at ANZ Stadium to ease their fears of claiming the wooden spoon.

“I thought it was our defence that let us down (on Monday) night and Greg stands at the back so it had nothing to do with him not being there,” Sutton said.

“The Dragons really rolled us through the middle and made too many yards on us so that is something we have get right this weekend.”

Front-rower Dave Tyrell echoed Sutton’s sentiments and backed Justin Hunt to impress as Inglis’ replacement in the custodian role having started against the Dragons.

“I actually thought Hunty played really well,” Tyrell said.

“GI … is a magnificent player and brings a lot to us. It was a team effort last night and the team simply didn’t do what we needed to do to win the game.”

Souths have a quick turnaround this week and head to the Gold Coast hot on the heels of recent ‘home’ games in Cairns and Perth against the Titans and Warriors respectively.

Michael Maguire’s side are unbeaten on their long distance trips this campaign having also won in Auckland in round five.

But Tyrell said there is no danger of the constant travelling having an affect on the players at the business end of the season with the club having their best ever chance of winning a first premiership since 1970.

“It really is just another game,” Tyrell said.

“We don’t prepare any differently for an away game as we would if we are playing at home and we’ve played pretty well on our travels.

“It’s not something that we are worried about at all.”