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Important update on 1476AMMitchell watch for Storm with records on the line
Melissa Woods, AAP • April 22nd, 2026 4:00 pm
Melbourne will equal an unwanted club record unless they stop in-form Rabbitoh Latrell Mitchell | Photo: Mark Evans/AAP
Nick Meaney says stopping a rampaging Latrell Mitchell is no one-man job, as Melbourne look to avoid unwanted history in their Anzac Day clash with South Sydney.
Mitchell was in beast mode against St George Illawarra last round, bagging four tries en route to a rousing 30-12 victory which left his team sitting fourth on the NRL ladder.
Storm centre Meaney said taking down the NSW Origin star at AAMI Park on Saturday night wouldn't just sit on his shoulders.
"I guess as a group," Meaney said when asked how to stop his opposite Mitchell.
"He's a pretty special player, very strong, very powerful.
"Hopefully we're just in a good position to put some pressure on him and a few other good players in their team."
Already in unfamiliar territory, languishing in 15th spot on the back of five successive losses, the Storm have two records they'd like to keep intact with a win over Souths.
In 20 attempts the Rabbitohs have never won in Melbourne, while the home side have never lost six games under coach Craig Bellamy.
The last time the Storm dropped six in a row was back in 2002 when Mark Murray was the coach, with Bellamy taking over the following year.
Nick Meaney (centre) scored two of Melbourne's four tries in the loss to Canberra | Photo: Lukas Coch/AAP
Halfback Jahrome Hughes said he felt there were signs of improvement, despite a four-point loss to the Raiders last round.
"It's tough losing games and I'm probably a sore loser more than anyone else, but, you've got to take some positives," he told AAP.
"I felt like during the game we were back to our best, we probably just didn't sustain it for long enough, but there was great signs there."
Hughes said it meant a lot for his team to play an Anzac Day fixture, winning their past nine, with Souths replacing the Warriors as their annual rivals last year.
Storm players say it's a privilege to play on Anzac Day | Photo: James Ross/AAP
"It means a lot to our team, our club and myself personally, it's my favourite game on the calendar and such a significant day in our history in Australia and New Zealand," Hughes said.
"We have a lunch and we usually get someone (from the armed forces) come in and talk about their experiences and I know the boys get a lot from that and probably at a time like this, five losses in a row, we probably need something like that.
"We try to copy the mateship and the hard work that they had to go through and obviously it's nowhere near the same, they were fighting for life or death, and we're only fighting to win a football game.
"We talk about that a little bit and try to draw some motivation from them and hopefully we can do that again this weekend."
