Russell at Rabbitohs-Sea Eagles Trial Match

Thanks to Zimbio, here are some pics of Russell at the Rabbitohs-Sea Eagles trial match on February 7th at Redfern Oval. Looking great!

The match also featured the debut of Sam Burgess as part of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Sam scored Souths' first try of the match, as they went on to win 42-12!

Prior to the match, Russell presented Sam with a club membership card in the name of his father, Mark Burgess, a former rugby league player and coach in England.

Russell and Sam

Russell at Rabbitohs Match

Here's Russell and Coach Jason Taylor at the South Sydney Rabbitohs preseason match with the Wests Tigers at Redfern Oval on February 8th.

You'll find a nice photo gallery of the game and players here. Although the Tigers won 30-26, Rabbitohs Coach Jason Taylor was pleased with his team, saying "It was a superb day all around." You'll find a full review of the game at the Rabbitohs official website. A list of scheduled game dates is also at the site.

Rabbitohs Sell Out Redfern Oval

The Rabbitohs have the first sell-out of rugby league for 2009! A crowd of 5000 will view the Rabbitohs "members only" match against Wests Tigers on February 8th.

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Redfern Return a Sellout

Souths chief executive Shane Richardson said the club could have sold out the ground twice over, with the final 300 tickets unwanted by Tigers members snapped up last week.

"We could have got 8,000 or 10,000 if we'd wanted to but we only had 5,000 to do it without putting in temporary grandstands,'' Richardson said. "It's a very positive start to the season and there's lots of people looking forward to returning to Redfern.

"Every fan there is going to be a ticketed member - it's a first in rugby league. We sold out our half of the tickets a month and a half ago, the last ones were just the extra 300 we got back from the Tigers.''

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The match marks the Rabbitohs return to Redfern Oval following it's remodel

Go Rabbitohs!!!

Rabbitohs News

The video chronicling the South Sydney Rabbitohs return to Redfern Oval on January 5th is now up on the Rabbitoh's official site. The above picture is a screen capture from the vid (thanks to a friend of mine named David, who's a rabid sports fan).

Also, a belated Happy 101st Birthday to the Rabbitohs! The South Sydney Rugby League Club was formed on January 17, 1908!


And, in other great news for the Rabbitohs, ticketed membership is now at 6660 as of 9 a.m. this morning, according to the official site. This surpasses the 2008 ticketed membership. The Rabbitohs now have a total of 11,506 ticketed and non-ticketed members. Way to go!