North’s Souths
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are looking to move across the harbour after next year; well, I won’t begrudge them the opportunity to make a bit of profit from their efforts, and the Redfern oval isn’t in particularly good shape. It’s a valid point that even if their present stadium site is renovated, it would take a period of years to get it done, and then with still no better guarantee of drawing a sufficient crowd. For a club that relies on the gate for its revenue, making the move is sensible. It would, however, be nearly the same as moving the Yankees out of the Bronx . . . or rather, moving the Mets out of Shea. It also means I’m really going to have to make an effort to see them in Redfern or give up calling myself a Souths fan.