England's Sam Burgess takes his cue from Russell Crowe | Sport | guardian.co.uk

England's Sam Burgess takes his cue from Russell Crowe | Sport | guardian.co.uk

"He had been planning to join Manly, the glamour club from Sydney's northern beaches whose former forward Steve Menzies was a team-mate at Bradford last season and constantly in his ear, until he received a call on his mobile in late July. "We were down in Wales playing Celtic Crusaders and I was getting a massage when the ePhone went," he recalls, revealing that he almost hung up when the caller introduced himself as "Russell – Russell Crowe from South Sydney"."

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!!!