The Burrow is an organisation linked to

South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club, also known as the South Sydney Rabbitohs, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales, Maroubra that competes in the Nat ...

Rugby League Football Club, based in Redfern, a suburb of inner-southern Sydney,

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. The South Sydney Rabbitohs continue to have a large supporter base in their traditional areas of south-eastern Sydney, despite having moved from Redfern Oval two decades ago. They also enjoy wide support throughout other rugby league playing centres around the country.
- The official South Sydney supporter group is known as "The Burrow" while the active supporter group is known as "Gate38" which is made up of young men who were involved in the "scumgate" scandal in 2013. The Rabbitohs also have a large supporter base in

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, where they rival the Fremantle Dockers in supporter size. The Rabbitohs have the highest football club membership in the National Rugby League, with total membership exceeding 35,000 on 23 June 2015. The total member number also includes more than 11,000 ticketed members to date, the highest of the Sydney-based NRL Clubs. It was announced during the 2010 Charity Shield game that both St George Illawarra and Souths had exceeded the 10,000 milestone, making the 2010 season the first time that two Sydney clubs had entered the season with 10,000 ticketed members each. The club has members from every state in Australia and international members located in 22 countries. Football club membership had peaked at some 22,000 when the club was readmitted to the National Rugby League for 2002 season. "Group 14", a collection of the club's backers which comprises an influential collection of businessmen, politicians and media personalities, was formed before the Rabbitohs' exclusion from the NRL in 1999. Members included Andrew Denton,

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, Mike Whitney, Laurie Brereton, Mikey Robins, Ron Hoenig, Nick Greiner, Ray Martin, Cathy Freeman, Candice Warner and the former New South Wales premier,

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. They contributed to South Sydney's bid for reinstatement, following the club's exclusion from the competition at the end of the 1999 season. A sustained campaign of public support that year, unprecedented in Australian sporting history, saw 40,000 people attending a rally in the

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in support of South Sydney's cause. In 2000 and 2001, public street marches took place in Sydney with more than 80,000 people rallying behind the Rabbitohs. The club also has a number of high-profile supporters, many of whom were dominant figures in their battle to be readmitted into the premiership in 2000 and 2001.
- In 2007, supporters set a new club record for attendance with an average home crowd figure of 15,702 being the highest ever since the introduction of the home and away system in 1974.

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