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If you do one thing this weekend read this story from Brad Walter.
The Mannah scandal put News Ltd offside with the NRL clubs but the public falling-out was a long time coming.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/how-news-lost-the-game-20130510-2jdmq.html
MANLY and South Sydney players had just finished a game so brutal that four judiciary charges would stem from it - but the hostilities were put aside when senior members of both teams met afterwards.
As they gathered after the round-seven match at Brookvale Oval, the Sea Eagles and Rabbitohs players discussed a Daily Telegraph story that day reporting a possible link between Jon Mannah's death and peptide use at Cronulla in 2011.
''After the game, the whole talk in both camps was all about how we're not going to cop this any more,'' a source close to the players told Fairfax Media. ''The way this had been handled was completely unfair, and the leaders of the players from both clubs spoke about it after the game.''