Some are not getting a jersey! In a rambling apology the Manly NRL team coach Des Hasler, and team captain Daly Cherry-Evans resorted to quoting Ghandi when making a statement on behalf of the footy club about the team wearing a rainbow coloured jersey for Thursday nights game against the battling Roosters. Seems its all about inclusion and diversity, when it comes to the bash and barge of footy these days. Although seven Sea Eagles will not be partaking in the free-for-all as they refuse to be included, and I assume they will be sitting on the sideline dressed in somewhat sombre colours, no rainbows for those guys.

What was intended to be "Women in League" round, yes the girls have come out of the kiosk, and away from their pie warmers, and are now playing the game with all its ferocity. Its turned into a bun fight over inclusion and diversity. Manly wants everyone to know they include LGBTQI+ folk, and all those other minorities too numerous to mention. However its seems not everyone at the Sea Eagles wants to be included, for some Manly players, its not just football on Sundays, its prayer and the Bible as well.

My last word on the subject; "Go the Bunnies!", who are not in all this kerfuffle, and are heading in the right direction at the back end of the season!

BTW, the Manly Sea Eagles are not travailing well this year, and things just got a whole lot worse. This week, me thinks the Rooster by 30!, in a one side contest.

It's sad to see the name of Jesus dragged through the mud by hateful right wing reactionaries, but, here we are. These minor dramas actually mean nothing. They don't change how much Australia is becoming more accepting and inclusive. Gay and trans folks everywhere have widespread community support. A jersey is just an attempt to commercialise that support, it's not the support itself

Its sad to see sport being politicised into statements of ones gender and sexualitity or support of such.

What next? Big Brother : Gay and Trans Footy Players Uncensored Wed 8:30 on Ten.
Hard Pass. I don't care what other uses you have for your bum.

Bravo to the seven players who refused to wear a rainbow jumper. I believe that they were Christians of 'islander' origin. White Australians are too scared, or too lacking in values, to take such a stand.

I have no interest in sport, but those who do want to be entertained, not have every wacko fad going these days shoved in their faces.

Players were not consulted by management on the rainbow jumper wearing, and the silly exercise in "tolerance" had no tolerance for those players who disagreed. The 7 cannot play. The Twitter nutters are full of contempt for them. The media is trying to shame them.

At least the coach apologised for his and the club's stupid, divisive woke virtue signalling. "The club has made an error, and we will learn", he said.

This should draw our attention as to why, just in order to play a sport, players are forced to wear specific clothings, more so clothings with advertisements - an evil practice by itself, more so clothes that advertise unwholesome things which they could morally oppose.

In this particular case, players were forced to wear the colours of a political movement, one they might not agree with. Finally they refused, but they ought to have refused to wear advertisements in the first place.

The rainbow flag does not represent homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people, nor is it about inclusion of them who are already included anyway - it represents an attempt to politicise their sexual tendencies. I do have homosexual and transgender people in my family and they are fully accepted like any other good person: nobody in my family likes them less or more because of their sexuality - why would we care? they just live their lives peacefully and never go about demonstrating, harassing others or otherwise making a fuss about their personal preferences. They are the silent majority, they have nothing to do with this rainbow thing.

"The club has made an error, and we will learn"

That was just a small error: the club has made a much bigger error when they started expecting their players to wear advertisements - when will they ever learn?!