Souths coach Jason Taylor declared he would have joined the thousands of other fans out on the SCG kicking footballs around after the match had his side won yesterday.

Instead, he's contemplating his worst losing sequence since taking over the reins at Parramatta midway through the 2006 season.

"It's a record," Taylor said following Souths' 30-10 loss to Wests Tigers. "We had five [consecutive losses] last year. I was keen to only equal that but now we've passed it. But, you know, some of the best have had longer than this. They've come back and we will, too."

A defiant Taylor believes a win is only around the corner and plans to celebrate when it finally comes.

"A win's great," he said. "You see those kids out on the field [after the game], I would have run out and kicked a few goals myself if we had won today but it didn't happen."

Ahead 10-0 after 26 minutes, Souths appeared to have finally got their attack in order, and would have led by more if Nathan Merritt hadn't been ruled offside from a Jeremy Smith kick and David Kidwell hadn't been held up.

Souths' tactics from the outset were obvious - kick deep and play the game down the Tigers' end of the field - and they were finally rewarded in the 21st minute when ballplaying five-eighth John Sutton put centre Beau Champion over for the opening try.

Just five minutes later, lock Ben Rogers scored in almost identical circumstances off a George Ndaira pass to put Souths ahead, but they failed to score again.

"I think everybody at Souths understands where we are coming from. We've got key players out, and we've got young guys in those positions who are doing well, and we're working hard to get ourselves out of the hole that we're in," Taylor said.

"But we're not out of it yet, and we've got to continue to fight and do what we do."

With a trip to Brisbane on Friday night followed by a home clash with the Cowboys the next week, the round-nine bye appears the Rabbitohs' best chance of getting their first competition points, but Taylor remains optimistic.

"We're all under pressure because we've all got high standards and we want to win footy games. We're under pressure because we want to win," Taylor said. "But we'll keep fighting and we'll come out the other side."

Co-captain Kidwell added: "It's a pretty shattered dressing room, and that's how much footy means to us. We're really disappointed in ourselves but we're really trying hard out there."