Kepos Street

Future Rabbitohs champion Bob McCarthy lived in Kepos Street as a child, across the road from his icon and Australian forward of the 1950s, Bernie Purcell.

“Bernie was a local hero to the kids in the area, and on a Sunday morning the day after Bernie had played for the mighty Rabbitohs, his mum Patricia would wash his red and green jersey. Watching it go up on the clothesline was like watching the Australian flag being raised, they were all in awe of it. Bob dreamt of playing for Souths one day” – rabbitohs.com.au.

Purcell would become a long-term coach of Souths and helped them to the 1965 grand final, which they would lose to the mighty St George [their 10^th-straight premiership]. McCarthy was one of his players that day.

Fellow Souths legend, Benny Wearing, lived just around the corner, decades earlier.