South Sydney coach Shaun McRae has condoned Rabbitohs fans who booed his team from the field after the NRL club suffered its worst loss in nearly 100 years of existence.

McRae offered a public apology for the Bunnies' abysmal performance at Telstra Stadium, giving no excuses for the 66-0 thrashing dealt out by a rampant New Zealand Warriors.

It prompted the remaining members of the 6,597-strong crowd to vent their frustration with a chorus of boos at fulltime.

"These guys got booed off the field and that's right," McRae said after his club's 14th loss from 15 games in 2006.

"In other losses this year I've given a lot of reasons why it may have happened, but I don't offer any of that today.

"That was just poor, it was dreadful, and they are entitled to be booed off the field.

"We were just absolutely pulverised by a very, very good rugby league side that we allowed to dictate and dominate."

"Our fans are entitled to an apology and they have a public apology from me from me and the captain (Peter Cusack)."

It was one of the darkest days in the proud history of South Sydney, Australian rugby league's most successful club with 20 premierships since it's foundation in 1908.

The 66-point margin eclipsed the Rabbitohs' previous biggest loss - a 62-0 battering from the Sydney City Roosters on Anzac Day in 1996.

It was also the sixth biggest defeat in Australian rugby league history, and gave the Warriors their biggest ever winning margin.

Souths were forced to make more than twice as many tackles (310-150) on a day which started badly - Ben Walker's opening kickoff when out on the full - and just kept getting worse with the Warriors leading 32-0 at halftime.

Centre Tony Martin finished with a personal haul of 22 points with a try and eight goals.

Interchange forward Lance Hohaia bagged a hat-trick of tries, with fullback Brett Webb scoring two and throwing the final pass for two more in the 12-tries-to-nil carve up.

It was the Warriors' third straight win - the first time since 2003 they have managed such a feat - lifting them to 12th on the ladder.

After being penalised four premiership points before the start of the season for salary cap infringements, New Zealand is now six points adrift of the top eight, but unlike most of the clubs above them, boast a healthy for-and-against.

Without the pre-season deduction, they would be ninth.

McRae accepted the blame for the loss should lay as much with him as the players. And afterwards told his charges to never forget their performance.

"I just said to the players you need to remember this, take a photo of the scoreboard, or get a copy of the tape and put it in your horror movie category," McRae said.

"But remember it. Don't just click you're fingers and think this goes away. I'd accept a response next week against the (North Queensland) Cowboys."

A gutted Rabbitohs vice-captain John Sutton said: "That's up there with the worst ever (loss) I've been involved with, we just didn't come to play today."

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