ANALYSIS: Manly pride jersey saga has NRL walking a fine line to prove it really 'is for everyone'
What's just as certain is that many more players will support these initiatives, as Manly skipper Daly Cherry-Evans pointed out.
"Eventually once we get over the fact people have made the decision not to play, there are going to be people who made the decision to wear the jersey." In the 1970s it was the first Australian sport to have an Indigenous person captain the national side, 20 years later Ian Roberts was one of the first male athletes in the world to come out during his career, and the game's embrace of cultural diversity in recent years, especially in regards to its Pasifika players and fans, has been first rate.
A loss could send them into a tailspin from which they never recover, and losing the seven players who don't wish to wear the jersey is, from a purely footballing perspective, a hammer blow.
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