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• MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
• GAY EX-SEA EAGLE IAN ROBERTS WANTS TO SPEAK WH BOYTTERS, REVEALS TAILS OF CLUB’S PRI JERSEY PLAN
• WHY GAY AM -HOST RYAN BRIDGE ISN'T AGAST SEA EAGL PLAYERS' BOYTT OF PRI JERSEYS
• GAY GBY LEAGUE STAR SLAMS "HOMOPHOBIA HIDG BEHD RELIGN" AMID PRI SHIRT BOYTT
• 'SIGNIFINT MISTAK': MANLY ACH APOLOGIS, ACKNOWLEDG PRI JERSEY EXECUTN WAS 'POOR'D HASLER SAID HE IS NCERNED FOR THE WELFARE OF THE SEVEN GBY LEAGUE PLAYERS WHO STOOD DOWN OM THURSDAY'S MATCH BEE THEY DO NOT WANT TO WEAR THE PRI JERSEY, DUE TO RELIG AND CULTURAL REASONS.MANLY SEA EAGL ACH D HASLER HAS APOLOGISED FOR THE CLUB'S FAILURE TO EXECUTE THE PRI JERSEY WHOUT NSULTG WH THE TEAM'S PLAYERS. SOURCE: AAPKEY POTSSEVEN MANLY SEA EAGL GBY LEAGUE PLAYERS WILL MISS OUT ON THURSDAY'S MATCH AGAST THE SYDNEY ROOSTERS.THEY ARE REFG TO WEAR THE CLIVY JERSEY THAT'S SIGNED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.MANLY SEA EAGL ACH D HASLER HAS APOLOGISED TO PLAYERS AND THE WIR MUNY FOR THE ROLLOUT OF A PRI JERSEY THAT HAS LAND THE CLUB NTROVERSY. THE SEA EAGL LNCHED THE FIRST-EVER GBY LEAGUE PRI JERSEY ON MONDAY TO REPRENT THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY FOR THURSDAY'S NRL MATCH AGAST THE SYDNEY ROOSTERS. THE JERSEY FEATUR A RABOW SIGN, GENERALLY KNOWN AS A SYMBOL OF LGBTIQ+ PRI.BUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE MOVE HAS BEEN SHROUD DRAMA AFTER SEVEN PLAYERS TOLD THE SYDNEY-BASED CLUB'S MANAGEMENT THEY WILL MISS THE IMPORTANT GAME THAT ULD IMPACT THE TEAM'S CHANC OF MAKG THE FALS. IN A PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO REPORTERS, HASLER SAID PLAYERS SHOULD HAVE BEEN NSULTED BEFORE THE JERSEY WAS LNCHED, WHICH OVERSHADOWED A SIGNIFINT TONE FOR THE CLUB.HE REVEALED NO ACHG STAFF OR PLAYERS HAD PRR KNOWLEDGE OF THE JERSEY BEFORE WAS LNCHED. "THE JERSEY'S TENT WAS TO SUPPORT THE ADVOCY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PERTAG TO GENR, RACE, CULTURE, ABILY AND LGBTQ RIGHTS. SADLY, THE EXECUTN OF WHAT WAS TEND TO BE AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IATIVE WAS POOR," HASLER SAID. "OUR TENT WAS TO BE RG AND PASSNATE TOWARDS ALL DIVERSE GROUPS WHO FACE CLN ISSU DAILY. HOWEVER, STEAD OF ENHANCG TOLERANCE, AND ACCEPTANCE, WE MAY HAVE HRED THIS. THIS WAS THE OPPOSE OF OUR TENT."WE WISH TO SCERELY APOLOGISE FOR SIGNIFINT MISTAK WE HAVE MA."HASLER AIRED HIS NCERNS FOR THE WELLBEG OF THE SEVEN PLAYERS WHO ARE FACG CRICISM FOR THEIR RELIG CISN TO DISTANCE THEMSELV OM THE PRI JUMPER. "THEY ARE NOT WEARG THE JERSEY AS NFLICTS WH THEIR CULTURAL AND RELIG BELIEFS AND I AM NCERNED FOR THEIR WELFARE. THEIR SPIRUALY IS A CENTRAL PART OF THEIR WELLBEG ... THE YOUNG MEN ARE STRONG THEIR BELIEFS AND NVICTNS AND WE WILL GIVE THEM THE SPACE AND SUPPORT THEY REQUIRE." ALBANE WEIGHS ON NTROVERSYAHEAD OF THE FIRST STG DAY OF THE 47TH PARLIAMENT, PRIME MISTER ANTHONY ALBANE SAID WAS IMPORTANT THAT ALL ATRALIANS WERE RPECTED, AND ENURAGED THE CLUB'S ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE CLIVY. "I CERTALY HOPE THIS IS ROLVED - ’S A GOOD THG SPORT IS MORE CLIVE," HE TOLD REPORTERS. THE PRIME MISTER PRAISED HIS IEND AND FORMER SEA EAGL PLAYER, IAN ROBERTS, WHO 1995 BEME THE FIRST TOP-LEVEL GBY LEAGUE PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY. "[IAN ROBERTS] SHOWED CREDIBLE URAGE - HE WASN’T THE FIRST GAY MAN TO PLAY GBY LEAGUE I’LL GIVE THE TIP - HE WAS THE FIRST TO HAVE URAGE TO E OUT AND THAT PAVE THE WAY FOR OTHERS TO DO SO," HE SAID. READ MORETHE HARRY POTTER-SPIRED TERNATNAL SPORT QUIDDCH IS REBRANDG TO ‘QUADBALL’. HERE’S WHY"IT’S IMPORTANT THAT ATRALIAN SOCIETY WE RPECT EVERYONE FOR WHO THEY ARE."SPORT MISTER ANIKA WELLS HAS ALSO DITED HER SUPPORT FOR THE JERSEY WH A TONGUE--CHEEK TWEET REFERENCG A HIP-HOP SONG HAILED FOR PROMOTG MARRIAGE EQUALY. "AS MISTER FOR SPORT I’VE BEEN ASKED TO MENT ON THE MANLY SEA EAGL, CLUB UNIFORMS ARE A MATTER FOR CLUBS BUT I THK MACKLEMORE SAID BT ALREADY - ’S ALL THE SAME LOVE," MS WELLS TWEETED. WHY ARE THE PLAYERS BOYTTG THE JERSEY?THE SEVEN PLAYERS - JOSH ALOIAI, JASON SAAB, CHRISTIAN TUIPULOTU, JOSH SCHTER, HMOLE OLAK’ATU, TOLU KOULA AND TOAFOFOA SIPLEY - ARE UNABLE TO WEAR THE JERSEY DUE TO RELIG AND CULTURAL BELIEFS. THE ISSUE PROMPTED A LENGTHY MEETG OF SEA EAGL MANAGEMENT ON MONDAY NIGHT, WHERE WAS AGA REQUTED THAT PLAYERS WEAR THE "EVERYONE LEAGUE" SIGN.SIX OF THE SEVEN PLAYERS ARE OF PASIFIKA HERAGE, A MUNY WH STRONG TI TO THEIR CHRISTIAN FAH. JJI RAVULO, CHAIR OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL STUDI AT THE UNIVERSY OF SYDNEY, SAID THAT MANY PASIFIKA PEOPL' VOLVEMENT THEIR CHURCH HAD AN "IMPACT ON THE WAY THEY VIEW THE WORLD AROUND THEM". HAVG STUDIED PASIFIKA MUNI WH THE NRL, HE SAID MORE CLIVE, OPEN DISCSNS AROUND CULTURAL AWARENS AND GENR DIVERSY WERE CRIL EXPANDG THE GAME'S CLIVY. READ MOREATRALIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NRL PLAYER ON WHAT GOT HIM THROUGH HIS DARKT MOMENTTHE PLAYERS HAVE ALSO E UNR FIRE FOR WEARG A JERSEY THAT PROMOT ALHOL AND BETTG SERVIC BUT THEY REFE TO WEAR A RABOW. BUT PROFSOR RAVULO SAID THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT TENSNS AROUND SEXUALY THE PASIFIKA MUNY ARE NOT DISCSED."PRR TO LONISATN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, MANY OF AS, AS SEXUAL BEGS, OUR SEXUALY WAS FLUID. SO WE'VE ACTUALLY LEARNED A LOT OF THE LABELS AND WE'VE LEARNED A LOT OF THE RIGID VIEWS ON SEXUALY OM WHE WTERN PERSPECTIV," HE TOLD SBS NEWS.ATRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSN CHAIR PETER V'LANDYS TOLD 2GB THAT MANLY HAD ERRED NOT NSULTG THE PLAYERS AND WORKG WH THEM LLABORATIVELY AND WAS NOW ALG WH THE REPERCSNS. BUT HE SAID THE NRL WAS OPEN TO LNCHG A PRI ROUND THE FUTURE AND SUPPORTED MANLY'S STANCE, EVEN IF HAS MASSIVE IMPLITNS FOR THE CLUB THAT IS AT RISK OF NOT MAKG THE TOP EIGHT FALS IF DO NOT PERFORM THIS ROUND."WE HAVE EEDOMS BUT WE HAVE POLICI. AND EVERY PLAYER THAT PLAYS THE GAME IS AWARE OF OUR POLICI. IF THEY WANT TO TAKE THAT STANCE, SO BE , BUT WE'RE NOT EVER GOG TO TAKE A BACKWARDS STEP THE CLIVY POLICY WE HAVE," HE TOLD REPORTERS. HE SAID NRL IS THE "GREATT GAME FOR ALL, NOT JT FOR A SELECT FEW", DRAWG ON HIS EXPERIENC OF FEELG CLUD THE GAME AS A YOUNG BOY. "I HAD A DIFFICULTY BEG ACCEPTED AS A MIGRANT AND GBY LEAGUE ACCEPTED ME. IT WAS CLIVE BACK THEN AND 'S CLIVE NOW." PROFSOR RAVULO SAID TN WAS A CRIL PONENT ENSURG ALL VOIC WERE HEARD, CLUDG BOTH PASIFIKA AND MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY. "IF WE'RE EXPECTG THE GAME TO BE CLIVE OF OUR PACIFIC PERSPECTIV AND EXPRSNS, PART OF OUR RPONSIBILY AS CIZENS WH THE GAME AND THE BROAR MUNY TO ALSO LEAN TO OTHER AREAS OF DIVERSY," HE SAID. IAN ROBERTS WAS THE FIRST GBY LEAGUE PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / INSIGHT'BREAKS MY HEART'ROBERTS, WHO HAS BEEN RALLYG THE LEAGUE FOR THREE YEARS TO RPORATE PRI CLIVY THE GAME, SAID THE PLAYER REVOLT "BREAKS MY HEART".THE FORMER KANGAROO AND SEA EAGL STAR REMAS THE ONLY ATRALIAN MALE PROFSNAL GBY LEAGUE PLAYER TO HAVE E OUT.HE TOLD SYDNEY'S DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER: "IT'S SAD AND UNFORTABLE. AS AN OLR GAY MAN, THIS ISN'T UNFAIAR."HE SPECTED THAT RELIG PHBACK WAS THE REASON WHY NRL HAS NOT RPORATED A PRI ROUND - A NCEPT THAT THE AFL AND AFLW CELEBRATE EVERY YEAR. "I N PROMISE YOU EVERY YOUNG KID ON THE NORTHERN BEACH WHO IS ALG WH THEIR SEXUALY WOULD HAVE HEARD ABOUT THIS."SPEAKG TO REPORTERS ON TUDAY, HE ADD: "I'M ALL ABOUT TN ... I WOULD LOVE, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNY, TO BE ABLE TO S DOWN AT A TABLE WH THOSE GUYS AND JT HAVE AN OPEN NVERSATN WH THEM, TO TRY TO EXPLA WHAT A PRI ROUND MEANS, PARTICULARLY FOR THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY, WHAT MEANS TO ."THE PRI JERSEYS WERE SOLD OUT ONLE LS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER LNCH ALL MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SIZ, WH ONLY JUNR VERSNS OF THE STRIP AVAILABLE.EARLIER THIS YEAR, AFLW PLAYER HANEEN ZREIKA CHOSE TO MISS PRI ROUND RATHER THAN WEAR GREATER WTERN SYDNEY'S PRI GUERNSEY, CG RELIG BELIEFS.WH AAP.SHARE7 M READPUBLISHED 26 JULY 2022 7:25AMUPDATED 26 JULY 2022 3:11PMBY RAYANE TAMERSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSSPORTSYDNEYSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
• THE MOLE: GAY MANLY PLAYER VASTATED BY PLAYERS' BOYTT OF PRI JERSEY
• GAY MANLY PLAYER IS LEFT 'VASTATED' BY SEVEN STARS BOYTTG GAME OVER NRL'S FIRST PRI JERSEY

MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY

“It hasn’t totally shocked me like ’s shockg everyone else, ” said former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who was the first high-profile gby player to publicly e out as gay the 1990s. Manly Sea Eagl ach D Hasler has apologised over the club's handlg of the cln of rabow lours on the club jersey, sayg was a "signifint mistake" pots:Seven players will boytt Thursday's game over the gay pri shirtHasler says the club's executn of the iative was "poor"Manly will face the Roosters on Thursday wh a greatly dispted siSeven players are boyttg their NRL match on Thursday over their team's cisn to wear a gay pri jersey. (AAP: Dan Himbrechts and Jam Gourley)Ian Roberts, a Manly legend and the first NRL player to e out openly as gay  1995, praised the "thenticy and scery" of Hasler and Cherry-Evans's said was "wonrful" the club would still wear the pri jersey this week and that he had been nsulted about the plan several weeks ago.

" Ian Roberts was the first openly gay player the NRL. In 1995, Ian Roberts beme the first gby league player to e out as gay. As an olr gay man, this isn’t unfaiar.

GAY EX-SEA EAGLE IAN ROBERTS WANTS TO SPEAK WH BOYTTERS, REVEALS TAILS OF CLUB’S PRI JERSEY PLAN

The first openly gay gby league player has shared his gut-wrenchg reactn to seven Manly Sea Eagl stars refg to don a rabow-loured pri jersey. ”Beg a longstandg member of the LGBTQIA muny, Roberts said the ntroversy was eply personal to him bee he had “lost iends to suici and [seen] the nsequenc of what homophobia and transphobia – all the phobias – n do to people”.

Roberts me out as gay while playg for the Manly Sea News Corp Atralia“This poor mismanagement has ed signifint nfn, disfort and pa for many people. ”Albane praised Manly legend Ian Roberts who beme the first NRL player to e out as gay while playg for the club 1995. “He wasn’t the first gay man to play gby league… He was the first to be able to have the urage to e out.

WHY GAY AM -HOST RYAN BRIDGE ISN'T AGAST SEA EAGL PLAYERS' BOYTT OF PRI JERSEYS

LGBTQIA stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, tersex and asexual Eagl great Roberts, the first and only Atralian gby league player to e out as openly gay, was hopg to attend the game this Thursday. While the players' stance has been wily nmned, Bridge - who was publilly outed as gay while live on-air 2019 - suggted imposg a set of beliefs on others would simply unrme the tentn of the jersey.

GAY GBY LEAGUE STAR SLAMS "HOMOPHOBIA HIDG BEHD RELIGN" AMID PRI SHIRT BOYTT

"Homophobia is never on - 's disgtg - but where is this gog to end?

'SIGNIFINT MISTAK': MANLY ACH APOLOGIS, ACKNOWLEDG PRI JERSEY EXECUTN WAS 'POOR'D HASLER SAID HE IS NCERNED FOR THE WELFARE OF THE SEVEN GBY LEAGUE PLAYERS WHO STOOD DOWN OM THURSDAY'S MATCH BEE THEY DO NOT WANT TO WEAR THE PRI JERSEY, DUE TO RELIG AND CULTURAL REASONS.MANLY SEA EAGL ACH D HASLER HAS APOLOGISED FOR THE CLUB'S FAILURE TO EXECUTE THE PRI JERSEY WHOUT NSULTG WH THE TEAM'S PLAYERS. SOURCE: AAPKEY POTSSEVEN MANLY SEA EAGL GBY LEAGUE PLAYERS WILL MISS OUT ON THURSDAY'S MATCH AGAST THE SYDNEY ROOSTERS.THEY ARE REFG TO WEAR THE CLIVY JERSEY THAT'S SIGNED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.MANLY SEA EAGL ACH D HASLER HAS APOLOGISED TO PLAYERS AND THE WIR MUNY FOR THE ROLLOUT OF A PRI JERSEY THAT HAS LAND THE CLUB NTROVERSY. THE SEA EAGL LNCHED THE FIRST-EVER GBY LEAGUE PRI JERSEY ON MONDAY TO REPRENT THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY FOR THURSDAY'S NRL MATCH AGAST THE SYDNEY ROOSTERS. THE JERSEY FEATUR A RABOW SIGN, GENERALLY KNOWN AS A SYMBOL OF LGBTIQ+ PRI.BUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE MOVE HAS BEEN SHROUD DRAMA AFTER SEVEN PLAYERS TOLD THE SYDNEY-BASED CLUB'S MANAGEMENT THEY WILL MISS THE IMPORTANT GAME THAT ULD IMPACT THE TEAM'S CHANC OF MAKG THE FALS. IN A PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO REPORTERS, HASLER SAID PLAYERS SHOULD HAVE BEEN NSULTED BEFORE THE JERSEY WAS LNCHED, WHICH OVERSHADOWED A SIGNIFINT TONE FOR THE CLUB.HE REVEALED NO ACHG STAFF OR PLAYERS HAD PRR KNOWLEDGE OF THE JERSEY BEFORE WAS LNCHED. "THE JERSEY'S TENT WAS TO SUPPORT THE ADVOCY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PERTAG TO GENR, RACE, CULTURE, ABILY AND LGBTQ RIGHTS. SADLY, THE EXECUTN OF WHAT WAS TEND TO BE AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IATIVE WAS POOR," HASLER SAID. "OUR TENT WAS TO BE RG AND PASSNATE TOWARDS ALL DIVERSE GROUPS WHO FACE CLN ISSU DAILY. HOWEVER, STEAD OF ENHANCG TOLERANCE, AND ACCEPTANCE, WE MAY HAVE HRED THIS. THIS WAS THE OPPOSE OF OUR TENT."WE WISH TO SCERELY APOLOGISE FOR SIGNIFINT MISTAK WE HAVE MA."HASLER AIRED HIS NCERNS FOR THE WELLBEG OF THE SEVEN PLAYERS WHO ARE FACG CRICISM FOR THEIR RELIG CISN TO DISTANCE THEMSELV OM THE PRI JUMPER. "THEY ARE NOT WEARG THE JERSEY AS NFLICTS WH THEIR CULTURAL AND RELIG BELIEFS AND I AM NCERNED FOR THEIR WELFARE. THEIR SPIRUALY IS A CENTRAL PART OF THEIR WELLBEG ... THE YOUNG MEN ARE STRONG THEIR BELIEFS AND NVICTNS AND WE WILL GIVE THEM THE SPACE AND SUPPORT THEY REQUIRE." ALBANE WEIGHS ON NTROVERSYAHEAD OF THE FIRST STG DAY OF THE 47TH PARLIAMENT, PRIME MISTER ANTHONY ALBANE SAID WAS IMPORTANT THAT ALL ATRALIANS WERE RPECTED, AND ENURAGED THE CLUB'S ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE CLIVY. "I CERTALY HOPE THIS IS ROLVED - ’S A GOOD THG SPORT IS MORE CLIVE," HE TOLD REPORTERS. THE PRIME MISTER PRAISED HIS IEND AND FORMER SEA EAGL PLAYER, IAN ROBERTS, WHO 1995 BEME THE FIRST TOP-LEVEL GBY LEAGUE PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY. "[IAN ROBERTS] SHOWED CREDIBLE URAGE - HE WASN’T THE FIRST GAY MAN TO PLAY GBY LEAGUE I’LL GIVE THE TIP - HE WAS THE FIRST TO HAVE URAGE TO E OUT AND THAT PAVE THE WAY FOR OTHERS TO DO SO," HE SAID. READ MORETHE HARRY POTTER-SPIRED TERNATNAL SPORT QUIDDCH IS REBRANDG TO ‘QUADBALL’. HERE’S WHY"IT’S IMPORTANT THAT ATRALIAN SOCIETY WE RPECT EVERYONE FOR WHO THEY ARE."SPORT MISTER ANIKA WELLS HAS ALSO DITED HER SUPPORT FOR THE JERSEY WH A TONGUE--CHEEK TWEET REFERENCG A HIP-HOP SONG HAILED FOR PROMOTG MARRIAGE EQUALY. "AS MISTER FOR SPORT I’VE BEEN ASKED TO MENT ON THE MANLY SEA EAGL, CLUB UNIFORMS ARE A MATTER FOR CLUBS BUT I THK MACKLEMORE SAID BT ALREADY - ’S ALL THE SAME LOVE," MS WELLS TWEETED. WHY ARE THE PLAYERS BOYTTG THE JERSEY?THE SEVEN PLAYERS - JOSH ALOIAI, JASON SAAB, CHRISTIAN TUIPULOTU, JOSH SCHTER, HMOLE OLAK’ATU, TOLU KOULA AND TOAFOFOA SIPLEY - ARE UNABLE TO WEAR THE JERSEY DUE TO RELIG AND CULTURAL BELIEFS. THE ISSUE PROMPTED A LENGTHY MEETG OF SEA EAGL MANAGEMENT ON MONDAY NIGHT, WHERE WAS AGA REQUTED THAT PLAYERS WEAR THE "EVERYONE LEAGUE" SIGN.SIX OF THE SEVEN PLAYERS ARE OF PASIFIKA HERAGE, A MUNY WH STRONG TI TO THEIR CHRISTIAN FAH. JJI RAVULO, CHAIR OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL STUDI AT THE UNIVERSY OF SYDNEY, SAID THAT MANY PASIFIKA PEOPL' VOLVEMENT THEIR CHURCH HAD AN "IMPACT ON THE WAY THEY VIEW THE WORLD AROUND THEM". HAVG STUDIED PASIFIKA MUNI WH THE NRL, HE SAID MORE CLIVE, OPEN DISCSNS AROUND CULTURAL AWARENS AND GENR DIVERSY WERE CRIL EXPANDG THE GAME'S CLIVY. READ MOREATRALIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NRL PLAYER ON WHAT GOT HIM THROUGH HIS DARKT MOMENTTHE PLAYERS HAVE ALSO E UNR FIRE FOR WEARG A JERSEY THAT PROMOT ALHOL AND BETTG SERVIC BUT THEY REFE TO WEAR A RABOW. BUT PROFSOR RAVULO SAID THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT TENSNS AROUND SEXUALY THE PASIFIKA MUNY ARE NOT DISCSED."PRR TO LONISATN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, MANY OF AS, AS SEXUAL BEGS, OUR SEXUALY WAS FLUID. SO WE'VE ACTUALLY LEARNED A LOT OF THE LABELS AND WE'VE LEARNED A LOT OF THE RIGID VIEWS ON SEXUALY OM WHE WTERN PERSPECTIV," HE TOLD SBS NEWS.ATRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSN CHAIR PETER V'LANDYS TOLD 2GB THAT MANLY HAD ERRED NOT NSULTG THE PLAYERS AND WORKG WH THEM LLABORATIVELY AND WAS NOW ALG WH THE REPERCSNS. BUT HE SAID THE NRL WAS OPEN TO LNCHG A PRI ROUND THE FUTURE AND SUPPORTED MANLY'S STANCE, EVEN IF HAS MASSIVE IMPLITNS FOR THE CLUB THAT IS AT RISK OF NOT MAKG THE TOP EIGHT FALS IF DO NOT PERFORM THIS ROUND."WE HAVE EEDOMS BUT WE HAVE POLICI. AND EVERY PLAYER THAT PLAYS THE GAME IS AWARE OF OUR POLICI. IF THEY WANT TO TAKE THAT STANCE, SO BE , BUT WE'RE NOT EVER GOG TO TAKE A BACKWARDS STEP THE CLIVY POLICY WE HAVE," HE TOLD REPORTERS. HE SAID NRL IS THE "GREATT GAME FOR ALL, NOT JT FOR A SELECT FEW", DRAWG ON HIS EXPERIENC OF FEELG CLUD THE GAME AS A YOUNG BOY. "I HAD A DIFFICULTY BEG ACCEPTED AS A MIGRANT AND GBY LEAGUE ACCEPTED ME. IT WAS CLIVE BACK THEN AND 'S CLIVE NOW." PROFSOR RAVULO SAID TN WAS A CRIL PONENT ENSURG ALL VOIC WERE HEARD, CLUDG BOTH PASIFIKA AND MEMBERS OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY. "IF WE'RE EXPECTG THE GAME TO BE CLIVE OF OUR PACIFIC PERSPECTIV AND EXPRSNS, PART OF OUR RPONSIBILY AS CIZENS WH THE GAME AND THE BROAR MUNY TO ALSO LEAN TO OTHER AREAS OF DIVERSY," HE SAID. IAN ROBERTS WAS THE FIRST GBY LEAGUE PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / INSIGHT'BREAKS MY HEART'ROBERTS, WHO HAS BEEN RALLYG THE LEAGUE FOR THREE YEARS TO RPORATE PRI CLIVY THE GAME, SAID THE PLAYER REVOLT "BREAKS MY HEART".THE FORMER KANGAROO AND SEA EAGL STAR REMAS THE ONLY ATRALIAN MALE PROFSNAL GBY LEAGUE PLAYER TO HAVE E OUT.HE TOLD SYDNEY'S DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER: "IT'S SAD AND UNFORTABLE. AS AN OLR GAY MAN, THIS ISN'T UNFAIAR."HE SPECTED THAT RELIG PHBACK WAS THE REASON WHY NRL HAS NOT RPORATED A PRI ROUND - A NCEPT THAT THE AFL AND AFLW CELEBRATE EVERY YEAR. "I N PROMISE YOU EVERY YOUNG KID ON THE NORTHERN BEACH WHO IS ALG WH THEIR SEXUALY WOULD HAVE HEARD ABOUT THIS."SPEAKG TO REPORTERS ON TUDAY, HE ADD: "I'M ALL ABOUT TN ... I WOULD LOVE, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNY, TO BE ABLE TO S DOWN AT A TABLE WH THOSE GUYS AND JT HAVE AN OPEN NVERSATN WH THEM, TO TRY TO EXPLA WHAT A PRI ROUND MEANS, PARTICULARLY FOR THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY, WHAT MEANS TO ."THE PRI JERSEYS WERE SOLD OUT ONLE LS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER LNCH ALL MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SIZ, WH ONLY JUNR VERSNS OF THE STRIP AVAILABLE.EARLIER THIS YEAR, AFLW PLAYER HANEEN ZREIKA CHOSE TO MISS PRI ROUND RATHER THAN WEAR GREATER WTERN SYDNEY'S PRI GUERNSEY, CG RELIG BELIEFS.WH AAP.SHARE7 M READPUBLISHED 26 JULY 2022 7:25AMUPDATED 26 JULY 2022 3:11PMBY RAYANE TAMERSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSSPORTSYDNEYSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

"I wonr - and I n't say 's fely the se here - whether relign is beg ed to basilly mask homophobia, and that's not on, " said Chan-Green. Manly club great Ian Roberts - who 1995 beme the first openly gay NRL player - said the players' refal to wear the jersey "breaks my heart", while broadster Pl Kent laid the blame on the club for tryg to flict s own beliefs on s players and not nsultg them before they were ma public. "But if don't have the discsns and say 'y, you don't have to wear those jerseys' then embolns those people their view, which is that beg gay is not natural and I don't thk that is the msage we should be allowg to sift through".

THE MOLE: GAY MANLY PLAYER VASTATED BY PLAYERS' BOYTT OF PRI JERSEY

Keegan Hirst, the first Brish gby league star to e out as gay, has cricised the Manly Sea Eagl players set to s out their match on Thursday prott at a shirt promotg LGBTQ+ equalyThe first Brish gby league star to publicly e out as gay has acced Manly Sea Eagl players of g relign as an exce for their homophobia.

Keegan Hirst, the former Wakefield Try prop, beme the first Brish player to publicly e out as gay when he did so 2015 before retirg 2020.

“Everyone is allowed to play gby league, and for the players to make this cisn, and I feel hi behd relig and cultural beliefs, I feel as though 's homophobia hidg behd relign. There's plenty of people who are relig who aren't homophobic.

GAY MANLY PLAYER IS LEFT 'VASTATED' BY SEVEN STARS BOYTTG GAME OVER NRL'S FIRST PRI JERSEY

Keegan Hirst beme the first profsnal gby league star to e as gay back 2015. ”Ian Roberts, the former Manly player who 1995 as a Sea Eagle beme the first NRL player to publicly e out as gay, said he was “heartbroken” at the suatn but later weled the club’s apology.

He wasn’t the first gay man to play gby league – I’ll give the tip – he was the first to have urage to e out and pave the way for others to do so.