Sydney Australia ? Russell Crowe is a big rugby fan, and now the Oscar-winning actor wants to buy a team.

Crowe is in negotiations to purchase a club in Australia’s National Rugby League, officials of the targeted South Sydney Rabbitohs said Saturday.

The Sydney club won a long court case to be readmitted to the NRL in 2002 after being cut from topflight competition following the 1999 season.

Negotiations could continue for at least a month.

“I’d like to buy the club. … You’re actually talking about rugby league fantasy stuff,” Crowe told The Australian Associated Press. “Yeah, I’d like to be able to have a situation like they do in America – they have individual owners.”