Campo's Corner: Why nobody can ever stop looking at South Sydney's Latrell Mitchell

You would have been forgiven for doubting Latrell Mitchell in the later stages of South Sydney's heartbreaking loss to Melbourne. 

It had been a difficult 75 minutes on return for Mitchell and for South Sydney in general – the Rabbitohs look disjointed and slow, and incapable of getting their famous left side firing. 

But once Souths got a sniff through two tries Mitchell had a big hand in creating, he was always going to feature in the result. 

He has a knack for the spotlight, the big play, the match-winner. It's not as though Mitchell just coasts through games and waits for those moments. He tried hard throughout the match, and kept trying even when things weren't working.

When his three conversions sprayed wide, it was reasonable to assume it just wasn't his night. But Mitchell is an unreasonable footballer and he has so often been the hinge on which a big game swings it can't be counted as a coincidence. 

There are a handful of other players who have kicked two-point field goals. One or two have even done it in tight matches. 

But it's highly doubtful there is another player in the league who would have put the boot in from deep, with time expiring, and hit the ball as true and sweet as Mitchell. 

This is just how it works for him. Things happen to Mitchell, and they happen louder and bigger than they happen to anybody else.

South Sydney went down in the end with Ryan Papenhuyzen coming up with his own fine match-winner, but the Latrell Mitchell show has had it's first stop for 2021. From here, it will only get bigger and louder. 

He fills up the rugby league field the way movie stars fill up the screen. Along with Kalyn Ponga, Nathan Cleary, James Tedesco and Tom Trbojevic, he is among the most famous players in the game.

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