{"id":383084,"date":"2024-04-09T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T07:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=383084"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:02:56","slug":"origin-gun-the-latest-casualty-of-souths-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=383084","title":{"rendered":"Origin gun the latest casualty of Souths crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damien Cook<\/a> has been dropped by the Rabbitohs<\/a> for their clash with the Sharks<\/a> on Saturday night as the club weathers its worst start to the season in over a decade.<\/p>\n

The veteran Blues hooker trained with South Sydney's reserves team on Tuesday before he was dumped from the club's top 17 when the team list was announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cook moves to the reserves, with \ufeff23-year-old rookie Peter Mamouzelos coming into the side as starting hooker.<\/p>\n

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Siliva Havili has been named in the No.15 jersey, meaning Cook is unlikely to play any part in Saturday's match.<\/p>\n

C\ufeffook's demotion headlines a trio of sweeping changes at South Sydney as embattled coach Jason Demetriou<\/a> scrambles to remedy the club's poor start to 2024.<\/p>\n

With superstar fullback Latrell Mitchell suspended for three weeks<\/a>, Jye Gray will make his NRL debut in his place.<\/p>\n

Cook is the second big-name player to be dropped by Demetriou this season after halfback Lachlan Ilias was axed last month<\/a> to make way for Dean Hawkins.<\/p>\n

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The match has been talked up as a must-win for \ufeffDemetriou with reports the fixture against the Sharks is a final test of the club's direction under his leadership.<\/p>\n

9News and Sydney Morning Herald reporter Michael Chammas reported on Sunday \ufeffthat the club has called for an internal review of its football operations under Demetriou<\/a> following the game.<\/p>\n

\"Slater<\/p>\n

However, according to 9News reporter Danny Weidler, Demetriou has not been informed by the club that he is facing the axe amidst the team's form slump. <\/p>\n

In some good news for Souths, winger Tyrone Munro will return from a shoulder injury to make his first appearance this season.<\/p>\n

The Rabbitohs have only won one of their five games so far in 2024 and find themselves anchored at the bottom of the league's ladder in 17th position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damien Cook has been dropped by the Rabbitohs for their clash with the Sharks on Saturday night as the club weathers its worst start to […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383089,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383084\/revisions\/383089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}