Wests Tigers have now lost seven on the trot and life doesn't get any easier in Round 22 when they square off against a Rabbitohs side set to be strengthened by the return of Latrell Mitchell.
Now sitting four points behind the 16th-placed Bulldogs it seems the wooden spoon is on its way to Concord for the second successive year unless Wests Tigers can spring some major upsets in the run home.
Tim Sheens' men face three of the big guns in the next three weeks with games against the Raiders and Warriors to follow Friday's clash against Souths, who now sit outside the eight after their loss to the Broncos.