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South Sydney have extended their dominance of Newcastle to a seventh successive game with an emphatic 34-12 win at Hunter Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The defeat also extended Newcastle's club-record losing streak to 17 games.
Fremantle nailed a goal after the siren to beat Collingwood in a high quality JLT game, while St Kilda's Josh Bruce bagged seven majors to smash a poor Blue's outfit by 92 points.
The Gold Coast fight back from 24-nil down to defeat Essendon in Mackay by three points, while a strong effort from North Melbourne saw them beat Hawthorn by 11.
South Sydney have continued their winning ways and heaped on Newcastle's misery with a 34-12 victory in Jeremy Smith's last game at Hunter Stadium.
Souths, who were playing in Newcastle for the first time since 2012, had won the previous six games between the two clubs by a combined scoreline of 227-60.
One of their chief tormentors has been Rabbitohs skipper Greg Inglis, who opened the scoring in the ninth minute when he chased an Adam Reynolds grubber kick and planted it millimetres from the dead-ball line.
It was the champion fullback's 12th try in 13 games against the Knights.
Souths' next try came 20 minutes later from winger Alex Johnston, whose strike rate against Newcastle is even more impressive that his skipper's.
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After a backline shift, Inglis threw the final pass to Johnston, who crossed untouched for his eighth try against the Knights in four games.
Two minutes before half-time, Souths extended their lead to 16-0 when Reynolds chipped infield and five-eighth Cody Walker caught it cleanly to race in between the posts.
Airborne: Cody Walker flies through for another score against the Knights. Photo: Getty Images
But Souths hit back with tries by Sam Burgess, who powered over from close range, and Johnston, who received a pinpoint crossfield kick from Reynolds to score untouched in the corner.Â
A spectacular chip-and-chase try from Knights fullback Jake Mamo in the 75th minute allowed retiring veteran Jeremy Smith to kick the second goal of his NRL career, in his final appearance on home turf.