Newcastle Knights skipper Kurt Gidley says the club is grateful for the short turnaround between games with the players looking forward to getting on the field following the tragic injury to Knights forward Alex McKinnon.
Newcastle Knights training - coach Wayne Bennett, centre, with the team. Source: News Corp Australia
"I WANT to tell you about Alex McKinnon, one of the best kids you've never met.
Because the hardest thing right now is busting to do something for Alex and his family, and the realisation you can't … this lonely feeling of helplessness.
So I thought the best I could do was share my insights to a wonderful young man, to our relationship and trust."
ALEX McKinnon remains in an induced coma with lung complications likely to keep the Newcastle Knights forward in a Melbourne hospital until the end of this week.
A second operation last Thursday was required to assist his breathing and recovery from fractured C4 and C5 vertabrae's, suffered in a tackle last Monday night against the Melbourne Storm.
In an emotional column, written for The Sunday Telegraph, Knights coach Wayne Bennett spoke about his endearing relationship with the 22-year-old he affectionately he calls his 'son'.
"All my players are important to me, but we just have a special chemistry,'' Bennett writes.
"That's the price you pay in relationships – the greater the relationship, the greater the pain.''
On Sunday afternoon, McKinnon's team-mates will take the field at what is expected to be a near sold-out Hunter Stadium.
McKinnon's Newcastle team-mate, Jeremy Smith, says emotion will play its part when the side runs out against the Cronulla Sharks, but admits it is something that is hard to define until the moment it hits.
"Everyone controls that a bit differently,''he said.
"I'm not sure what's going to happen. We'll have to sort of play it as it comes and if there is, they are going to have to handle it and get their emotions in check.
"We've still got a job to do but with Alex in the back of our minds, it's going to be a bit of a driving force there. But it's a game that we have to win for ourselves to get our season off and going.
"Definitely after the game, I dare say there will be a fair bit of emotion floating around."
Newcastle Knights forward Alex McKinnon was taken to a Melbourne hospital at half-time after getting his neck caught in this awkward Jordan McLean tackle.
READ WAYNE BENNETT'S EXCLUSIVE COLUMN IN TOMORROW'S SUNDAY TELEGRAPH OR ONLINE.
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