The players' decision to skip the game over the jersey has sparked an outpouring of public outrage, including from their own fans and club legends, while others have supported their freedom of religious beliefs. The Sea Eagles unveiled the pride jersey - called Everyone in League - on Monday to promote inclusivity of LGBT + people in the NRL.īut star players Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schuster, Haumole Olakau'atu, Tolutau Koula and Toafofoa Sipley refused to wear it on Thursday, saying it would be against their religious beliefs.ĪRLC chairman Peter V'landys (pictured) later downplayed the latest off-field saga to rock the NRL and insists it's not a political issue
Now, the Penn family - who have pumped an estimated $20 million into Manly over the years - are back in the limelight amid the row over the jersey. The older Mr Penn is also thought to be a key figure in anti-obesity lobbying in Australia. Rick and his wife Heather helped launch aerobics in Australia in the late 1970s before moving onto Weight Watchers in the mid-1980s. Rick is the former CEO of Weight Watchers Australia and New Zealand and is one of the richest businessmen in the country.
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Though Mr Penn has been the main driver of his family's interests in Manly, his father Rick is the head of the family.
The app program is already the third largest in the Australian online weight loss market and the Sea Eagles wants to spread its popularity through North America. In April, Mr Penn announced that his firm's Mayo Clinic Diet app was being launched globally and targeting $100m in revenue by 2025. 'With Super League, pokie tax, and leagues clubs not being able to fund clubs as much as they used to, it had to happen.' 'I spent about eight weeks a year in the US for a six-year period, and I saw private ownership of teams over there, and always on the plane trip coming back, I'd think, 'Why aren't any of the NRL teams privatised?',' Penn said at the time. Speaking about how he led the privatisation of the Sea Eagles in 2004, Mr Penn previously said his experience in the US drove him. So fundamentally it's all about numbers and trends and giving people what they want.' And same with the team performance on the field, if they're not playing well the crowd won't come back. 'We've got to make sure that every interaction we have with a member or patient is as good as it can possibly be or they won't come back.
'With the football team you have elite athletes who have to perform every single week in order to achieve the ultimate premiership, which is to win a championship, and we've got that same mindset with the health business. 'A lot of people said why am I running both a health business and a football team, but the reality is that they're both all about playing at an elite level,' Mr Penn told the Australian. In another interview, he said: 'I personally was an overweight teenager and I've spent my last 25 years in this space, it really is my passion.'ĭigital Wellness has an approximate valuation of between $US120m to $US150m. To avoid this, we need to shift the way society as a whole thinks about weight and wellness. 'Living longer, but in misery, doesn't sound pleasant.
Mr Penn is a Harvard graduate who also attended Knox Grammar and is also the CEO of Digital Wellness, a company that claims to 'power the world's most renowned and trusted weight loss programs'
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