A big congratulations to all South Sydney Rabbitohs supporters in the aftermath of Russell Crowe’s online comments, saying he will not be putting in as much money to the club as in previous years.
It should be common to all, let alone the media, that Crowe can not stay in acting forever. There will be a stage in the man’s career where he will simply have to hang up his boots and bid farewell to Hollywood.
With this impeding move, that also means the valuable amounts of cash that seems to come into Crowe’s pockets all the time, will also slow down.
With Crowe’s announcement, many around league circles were thinking that he was being a snob, who was starting to turn his back on his beloved South Sydney.
Far from it.
In an online poll conducted by the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday, an overwhelming 88 percent of respondents said Crowe was being a realist rather than a scrooge.
Of course, he is a realist, and it’s great for most of South Sydney to realise the truth behind his move.
Since Crowe has taken over the club, the Rabbitohs made their first finals appearance in 2007 since the club was reborn in 2002, whilst also bringing some world class players into the side.
Among the impressive crop of players he has recruited are Rhys Wesser, Roy Asotasi, Nigel Vagana, Dean Widders, David Peachey and David Kidwell.
Although some of those players have either gone overseas or retired, Crowe has established a competitive roster that was generally considered one of the weakest in the NRL at the beginning of the new millennium.
And lets not forget that he did not have to fork out the three million or so dollars to build the Rabbitohs back to good health. He could have just stayed being a passionate supporter of the Redfern-based club.
But no, he went out of his way to forge a deal with Peter Holmes a Court and save South Sydney from financial disaster.
Although a premiership will not be coming anytime soon for the Bunnies, Crowe’s work for them has laid the foundations for the club to achieve some pretty neat success in the near future.
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