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[Mav]

And yet the Manly players who boycotted the game last night have apparently agreed they’ll wear the jumper next season. Maybe the backlash produced engagement? Remember that this is team sport. The players play for a club and both the club and the NRL have the right to obtain sponsorships and promote the game to as large an audience as they want. An individual player can’t object to wearing a guernsey with Points Bet on it on moral or religious grounds and they presumably can’t refuse to wear the one Manly played in last night. I’m assuming the NRL made sure players’ contracts made this clear after the Izzy Folau saga but Manly chose to placate the 7 players rather than sack them as they form such a large part of the team. If Manly wants to signal acceptance to gays, players will just have to comfort themselves with their 700,000 pieces of silver for selling out Christ.