Souths feud with Roosters explodes over remark Live Sports News

The Bunnies’ social media team were absolutely on fire at a jubilant post from the Roosters, who captioned a photo of Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Joey Manu and Luke Keary appearing to be eyeing Rabbitohs star fullback Latrell Mitchell as it was piled on top of him, with the phrase “Whose house is this?!” after their thrilling 20-18 win over South Sydney on Friday night.

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The Bunnies’ social media team were quick to hit back, however, with a scathing ‘the taxpayers’, referring to the public brawl between the two clubs and the New South Wales state government. which exploded with the announcement of the redevelopment of the toppling rebuild of Sydney’s old football stadium at Moore Park, which served as the home of the Roosters from 1988, as well as the Rabbitohs for periods.

With South Sydney the only team in the league forced to play home games completely outside their geographic area despite being the oldest and most legendary club in the competition, outrage has ensued in Redfern Oval as the Souths watched their rivals settle in an $830 million taxpayer-funded fund. installation in the heart of the club without the possibility of playing home matches there themselves.

The phrase “whose house” has been a common call-and-response phrase at sports meets, popularized by Run-DMC’s 1988 hip-hop hit “Run’s House”, with the Los Angeles Rams more recently being a popular exponent.

South Sydney fans continue to balk at the Roosters’ exclusive use of the state-of-the-art facility as their home ground, with plans to redevelop Souths’ own ground, Accor Stadium, canceled by the state government in May 2020 which highlighted a change in budgetary priorities due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

South Sydney previously asked Souths for permission to break its lease at Accor, which expires in 2030, to move to Allianz, on the grounds that the lease was signed with conditional on redevelopment.

“If the government is not going to upgrade (Accor) then we should be allowed to move,” Souths chief executive Blake Solly said in September last year.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a tragic and lifelong member of the South who sat on the Rabbitohs board and led the club’s fight for reinstatement between 1999 and 2001, backed calls last year for the Rabbitohs are permitted to use Allianz as their place of residence.

“Of course they should be and that’s just common sense,” he said in October last year.

“When the public has invested such a large amount of taxpayers’ money into this stadium, its use should be maximized,” he said.

The new Allianz Stadium opened in August last year with a successful Rabbitohs-Roosters knockout final which saw seven players fish the NRL’s first game on the ground.

NSW Sports Minister Alister Henskens has previously said the state government is open to negotiation but “will not be forced to make business decisions under media pressure on the government”.

Henskens said in August last year that South Sydney had re-committed to the Accor Stadium in agreements which “specifically refer to the Government’s cancellation of the Accor Stadium redevelopment project”.

With national elections looming within the week, the fate of the Bunnies’ tenure at Accor could still be up in the air if the government changes.

The Leader of the Opposition has been contacted about whether an elected government in Minns would take a different stance on allowing the Rabbitohs to move to Allianz.