A federal MP has said ‘it’s only fair’ South Sydney are allowed to call the new Sydney Football Stadium home as the club continues its bitter feud with the NSW Government and arch rivals the Roosters.
The Rabbitohs have been travelling from their heartland in Sydney’s inner-south to Homebush’s Accor Stadium for 16 years – but are now desperate to return to the newly built, $830million taxpayer-funded Allianz Stadium.
Souths have an agreement in place to play home games at Homebush until 2030 – however, that deal included an $800million redevelopment of the ground which was axed by the NSW Government after the Rabbitohs signed.
The club now faces a war with officials as they try to switch venues, while their historic rivals the Sydney Roosters are attempting to block the change.
A federal MP has lended his voice to South Sydney’s battle to relocate the Rabbitohs from Accor Stadium in Homebush to the new $830million Allianz Stadium in Moore Park (pictured)
The Roosters, led by billionaire powerbroker Nick Politis, are insistent they will not share the revamped SFS with Bunnies.
Mr Politis refused to even mention Souths by name during an interview with Roosters Radio on Wednesday, before proclaiming Allianz as ‘sacred’ territory.
‘The point is this is our third stadium, we started with the old sports ground in 1928 and then 30 years with the old Allianz Stadium and now with the new one,’ he said.
‘Nobody else has played there. For a club to say we want to go there because it’s our home, it’s not their home.
‘The Roosters are the only people that belong. That’s our true home, it’s very sacred that field.’
But the Rabbitohs have their own friends in high places .Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is a born and bred South Sydney fan and recently threw his weight behind the proposed move.
So has Kingsford Smith MP Matt Thistlethwaite, who said a co-tenancy for his Bunnies would be a ‘win for everyone’.
‘I understand when Souths went to Homebush they were desperate…
Source : dailymail
