The NRL club moved on from its community heartland this week but with its rich history Redfern will always carry a sense of home
until this week, old timers called theirs “The Holy Land”. It was more than a place where rugby league was played, it was the community’s heartland, a playground for kids, a nursery for local talent, a theatre of dreams and a sanctuary for anyone who wanted to believe in, and belong to, something bigger.
They stopped at Mascot Oval where captain Cameron Murray and forward Keaon Koloamatangi played as young Jets. They went via Erskineville Oval where former captain Adam Reynolds started his career as an Alexandria Rover, and Yarra Oval where La Perouse Panther Alex Johnston began the journey that would make him the club’s greatest try scorer. At Marcellin Fields, champion centre and Coogee Wombat Campbell Graham paused to reflect on where it all began.
It’s an impressive powerbase but Redfern is still home. Indeed, the Rabbitohs will return to the Oval on 21 April to scatter the ashes of. But like all home grounds, Redfern Oval was someone else’s holy lands first. Gadigal warriors stalked its swamps and tea-tree forests first to hunt kangaroo and possum.
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