Former National Rugby League side South Sydney player George Piggins "says he would shake the hand of Russell Crowe when the former hooker attends Sunday's NRL grand final, his first appearance at a Rabbitohs game in almost a decade," according to Patrick Begley of the CANBERRA TIMES. Piggins, a member of the Rabbitohs' "last premiership winning team" in '71, exiled himself from the club after Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes a Court "seized control in a takeover" in '06. Piggins said, "It was pretty personal that fight with Crowe and Holmes a Court and that, it was pretty personal. At some stages it all went too far." On the weekend Piggins said he would "only attend the decider against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs" if someone paid A$100,000 ($87,300) to a charity of his choice. After Tab Corp, News Corp and 2GB Owner John Singleton "stumped up the money," Piggins is now "likely to come face to face with Crowe." Piggins: "If Russell Crowe came up to you and wanted to take you to his bosom, so to speak, or threw out the hand of friendship... what does George Piggins do? I'd shake hands, you grow up, I mean I'm 70, and you've got to realize it's a game" (CANBERRA TIMES, 10/1).