South Sydney Rabbitohs In Griffith For Pre-Season Match

The South Sydney Rabbitohs will be heading to Griffith to take on a Group 20 Invitational side in the Club’s first senior match of the 2021 pre-season.

The match between the Rabbitohs and Group 20 will be played on Saturday 20 February at 7pm at Solar Mad Stadium. It will feature a number of the Rabbitohs top 30 players and young up-and-coming stars, coming face-to-face with some of the best footballers from the Riverina region.

Rabbitohs Head Coach Wayne Bennett will be in town for the game, as well as appearing at a Sportsman’s night at Griffith Leagues Club on Friday 19 February.

Members and supporters will also have the opportunity to meet the Rabbitohs players at the team’s final training run to be held at Solar Mad Stadium on Friday 19 February at 5pm, ensuring the local Rugby League community has plenty of opportunities to come and see the players and coaches as they prepare for a big 2021 NRL premiership campaign.

Coach Bennett is excited about bringing his players to a major regional centre of New South Wales.

“I think it’s hugely important that we promote the game in the bush because the bush delivers so many great footballers for the elite game at all clubs,” Coach Bennett said.

“I’m proud of our club for its commitment to regional towns and places like Griffith.”

“We’re expecting a tough game against the Group 20 side. We’re told there will be some experienced, top-level players in their team along with some exciting young guys, so we’ll need to be on our toes and put in an effort on the field that replicates what we’ve been doing at training over the past few months.”

Prior to the Rabbitohs vs Group 20 Invitational game scheduled to start at 7pm, there will be two curtain raiser matches. The first game will be a match between the Group 20 and Group 17 women’s teams which will kick off at 3:30pm. The second match will see the Group 20 Indigenous side go up against the Group 20 Barbarians in the ‘Roger Pen-rith Memorial Game’ at 5pm at Solar Mad Stadium.

Tickets for the game are available from 123tix.com.au.

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