Quote: Wigg'n "Why would Manly/Souths fans go and support Wigan? I've found myself cheering for Leeds & Saints in some WCC games.'"
Souths and Easts (Sydney Roosters) fans have an intense more than 100 year old rivalry that borders on the pathological. Russell Crowe has gone out of his way, since he bought South Sydney Rabbitohs, to stir up this rivalry.
Manly fans are a bit of a sour grapes crowd -- though most of them are too lazy to travel across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, unless it is an occasion when their team is in the Grand Final.
I think that the prospect of the Sydney Roosters winning a second Grand Final in 2014 -- an unprecedented, for the NRL, "back to back" win -- thanks in part to Sonny Bill Williams, will enrage the fans of South Sydney and Manly in particular. They will want to see the "tall poppies" known as the Sydney Roosters, brought down a notch.
I expect to see the Burgess brothers, Greg Inglis and Russell Crowe, in the crowd at Allianz Stadium to support Wigan.