Manly vow to help out Chch

Manly will proceed with their game in Christchurch on Saturday week and spend three days before the emotional game assisting the devastated community rocked by Friday’s terrorist attack.

Less than an hour after reports began of the horrifying shootings in mosques, Sea Eagles chief executive Lyall Gorman reached out to officials about how his NRL club could assist the community.

Manly have taken home games to the New Zealand city the past two years, but the round-three clash against the Warriors will arguably be the most emotional NRL game of the year.

‘‘At this stage the game will go ahead, the [local league officials] were meeting with the deputy mayor on Saturday, not about the actual game but about how we could add value over there,’’ Gorman said.

‘‘We want to get over there and embrace the people of Christchurch. They’re like a sister city to us.

‘‘We all hurt on Friday and we’re still hurting. We want to get over there and try to lift their spirits a little bit. We were always going over to do community work. That might change in its tone and texture now.

‘‘[Coach] Des [Hasler] texted me at 9pm on Friday asking what we can do over there. The game will happen.’’ the middle of the star-studded Roosters pack and off the back of that go forward, Reynolds steered his side to an impressive first up victory under new coach Wayne Bennett.

Greg Inglis didn’t quite look to be at full fitness, so expect to see South Sydney get even better still over the coming weeks.

4. Knights

They were far from perfect, but the Knights did enough to get the win over top four contenders the Sharks and spoil Shaun Johnson’s debut with a hardfought 14-8 win.

Newcastle have plenty of work to do on attack, plainly finding a way to inject young gun Kalyn Ponga more, but coach Nathan Brown would have been impressed by their defence.

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