Another day of dramatic rugby league action in the books ends with a predictable result — Souths losing — in unpredictable circumstances — pushing the Sharks to the brink with 14 men for most of the game.

Earlier we saw the Eels win a "shambles" of a game against the Cowboys, and we had our first draw of the season, between the Warriors and Sea Eagles.

We'll of course be back tomorrow for more NRL live action, but until then, stay safe out there.

Jason Demetriou starts his press conference by passing on the thoughts and prayers of the team to the victims of the Bondi Junction attack.

He says he's proud of his team's performance in the face of immense challenges.

"I'm walking out of here really proud of my team, really proud of the fight they showed," Demetriou says of tonight's effort.

And as far as his future, will he still be the coach after tonight?

"Nobody's told me otherwise."

The Souths coach says "it's not ideal; you don't want to be going through this" and he feels sorry for the fans.

"I won't walk around with my head down," he says.

"I've worked my backside off to be in this position as the head coach of one of the biggest rugby league clubs in the world."

And on the 27-second press conference:

"There's no real point in me standing there answering questions about it — it doesn't serve the players, it doesn't serve me."

Cody Walker hasn't been asked many questions, but he says the team wanted to fight for the jersey and their coach.

"I've got tremendous respect for JD and how much work he puts in," he says.

We've seen a fair bit of chat about 'disruptor' penalties today, to mixed response:

It's a new rule that is pretty subjective and causing a lot of confusion.

Here's the explanation from the league:

Video referee Adam Gee said loudly in a captain's challenge that he made a ruling based on his "opinion" and that's going to be the case in most of these incidents throughout the season.

The South Sydney coach will front the press tonight, likely for longer than his mid-week 27-second effort. We're going to stick around to try to bring you that as it happens.

Dene Halatau gives us a reminder that there's a human at the centre of all this speculation about 'the Souths job'.

"This is a man's livelihood," Halatau says on ABC Sport.

"I get it's a results-driven business, but I don't envy the position he's in now."

It was another rotten night for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in a season rapidly filling up with them, but Jye Gray's debut was a bright spot.

Veteran five-eighth Cody Walker tells Fox Sports the team tried to focus on putting in a big effort for the young kids getting their chances tonight.

Winger Ty Munro played his first game of the year, Peter Mamouzelos had his first start at hooker, and 20-year-old Gray played his first NRL game back in the number one jersey.

He ran for 165 metres, broke six tackles and, most importantly, made no errors.

The Runaway Bay junior has a huge support team in the stands, including young teammates and family, and he's greeted them all warmly and posing for photos on the biggest night of his career.

The rest of the team, including a dour-looking Jason Demtriou, is in the sheds, but Gray and a host of other players are out there signing autographs and soaking up the night.

It wasn't the prettiest performance from the Sharks, but it was properly gutsy stuff from the Rabbitohs, who were down the 14 men for over half the game.

Sharks hooker Blayke Brailey admits the game was too scrappy and they should have put the Rabbitohs away earlier.

"Fitzy [coach Craig Fitzgibbon] won't be happy with that," he tells ABC Sport.

Dene Halatau describes the Souths effort as "spirited" and you can't deny that.

"That was our main point through the last two weeks, just those effort areas," Dean Hawkins tells ABC Sport down on the field.

Nicho Hynes grubbers into the in-goal off his left boot and Keaon Koloamatangi can't handle, knocking on straight into the waiting hands of Blayke Brailey to touch down under the posts.

Koloamatangi perhaps should have just punched it dead, but he knew the Rabbits needed possession with just 90 seconds left in the game.

The Sharks fullback fields a bomb and just jogs around Jack Wighton yet again.

Blayke Brailey breaks through the middle from dummy half and offloads to Sifa Talakai, who's dragged down in a try-saver by Dean Hawkins.

But the last play is disrupted by a tackler in the ruck, and Ashley Klein says it's a handover.

BUT the Rabbitohs knock on to hand it straight back to the Sharks.

On the back of a penalty for a head high tackle, the Rabbits just spread it to the left and send Isaiah Tass over in the left corner.

They couldn't, could they?

Dean Hawkins can't convert, but South Sydney is still within a converted try.

It's 28-22 with five minutes left.

Dean Hawkins boots long and it looks like Will Kennedy is barely going to get back in the field of play, but he does that and then some, breaking past Jack Wighton and heading 30 metres up field before finding Jesse Ramien, who offloads to Sione Katoa to eventually get up towards the 40m line.

Cronulla is on the charge now.

Siliva Havili pokes his nose through close to the line and gets his hands free to offload to Tom Burgess to touch down.

Dean Hawkins converts and the Rabbitohs are back within 10.

First they go left with Jye Gray offloading to Jack Wighton, who somehow holds on around the back of his head.

And then, after Taane Milne is stopped just short in the right corner, Dean Hawkins skips blindside from dummy half, grubbering into the in-goal to force a dropout.

Braydon Trindall bombs and Ronaldo Mulitalo flies for it, getting his hands to it without any contest from the Rabbitohs' Taane Milne.

Mulitalo knocks it back and Teig Wilton is rewarded for a trailing effort, with the bat-back going straight to the hardworking back rower for the second time tonight.

The Sharks winger was chasing after another pinpoint Braydon Trindall kick. Taane Milne got tangled up with Mulitalo, but it was all above board as Milne knocked it back and into Mulitalo, who knocked on in the in-goal.

After that brilliant try, the Rabbitohs winger leaps for a bomb, but too far and too early, knocking on 10 metres out from his own line.

Souths will do well to hang on here.

Or the Sharks will knock on as they get their timing wrong on the left-side shift.

Jack Williams is walking off with an apparent leg injury.

He was just rumbled over by Tom Burgess, but I don't know if that was what caused the injury.

On the back of a penalty for strip, Tom Burgess flattens Jack Williams with a dominant charge and gets the Cronulla defence back tracking, with the right-side shift seemingly ending when Dean Hawkins's long ball hits the ground, but Taane Milne shows remarkable strength to muscle over in the corner.

And Hawkins slots a conversion from the sideline. They're only down by 10 now.

Braydon Trindall perfectly sums up the overlap, lofting a (maybe forward) pass over the top of the rushing Isaiah Tass to Sone Katoa, who launches from 2 metres out and puts it down with one hand despite the attention of Jack Wighton.

Dean Hawkins pulls off another perfectly weighted grubber to force the dropout and the Sharks go short, but Taane Milne knocks on under pressure from Ronaldo Mulitalo.

There was some confusion with Ashley Klein signalling a Cronulla knock-on initially, then correcting himself.

"F*** OFF," Demetriou fumes in the coach's box.

South Sydney is officially down to one player on the bench, with captain Cameron Murray failing his HIA. So he joins Tyrone Munro and Tevita Tatola in being ruled out for the rest of the game.

And Jack Wighton has emerged from half-time wearing headgear. Not sure what's happened to him, although he did have a very early head clash with Jacob Host.