Souths young gun already next-gen leader

Keaon Koloamatangi has only played 35 NRL games but already he considers himself a leader for the next generation at South Sydney. One of the game's most powerful young forwards, Koloamatangi will play a key role on Souths' dangerous left edge in Friday's preliminary final against Manly. The 23-year-old has played in just one of the Rabbitohs' three straight preliminary finals losses, but is already desperate to prove South Sydney are more than a preliminary-final team. And he will instil that approach into a number of the team's younger players. "Seeing all the top players in the comp and hanging with them every day and seeing what it takes to get to the top, it made me just want to work harder and become the best I can be," he said. It's clear Koloamatangi has impressed the right people at South Sydney, even before his NRL debut last year. "Hopefully it's just because I am playing good," Koloamatangi quipped.