THE Warriors will wear their hearts on their sleeves for missing team-mate Sonny Fai.
The team is working with uniform-providers Canterbury Clothing to have an inscription put on their jerseys for both home and away games to honour the courageous second-rower, presumed drowned after saving five relatives from treacherous rips.
"The NRL has given us permission to put something on our jersey," Warriors football manager Don Mann told Sunday News.
"We'll look at putting it either where the Warriors tiki is, which is on the heart of our jersey, or we'll do something on the sleeve ... as in wearing our heart on our sleeve."
The team is also considering dedicating the round-four home match against the Rabbitohs, on April 5, to Sonny as it's the first afternoon game at Mt Smart Stadium.
"It's a Sunday afternoon, it's a good day for the family," Mann said.
"We'll do something in game one too of course. A lot depends on whether we recover Sonny's body before that first game, and also what the thoughts of his family are."
A one-minute's silence and the team's wearing of black armbands for the NRL season-opener, a home game against the Eels on March 14, were also possible.
Sonny's sister Lalelei Fai said the proposed dedication of the South Sydney match to her younger brother would "make me over the moon".
Her family would attend every Warriors home game, backing the team as it had helped them through the tragedy of Sonny's loss.
The 20-year-old rising sensation was swept out to sea at west Auckland's Bethells Beach three weeks ago after saving his 13-year-old brother and four cousins in surging surf.
"I believe if he is up in heaven ... he'll be smiling out at his boys and giving them all the strength that they need to make 2009 a wonderful season," Lalelei said.
Every time her team scored she would look to the skies ... "just bring a tear to my eye".
Lalelei said her family, which has maintained a daily vigil at Bethells, was still "hoping and waiting and praying".
Mann said he was sure the players would carry their emotions over Sonny's tragedy onto the field this season, but they would be controlled emotions.
"If we're to do the right thing by Sonny, it's about concentrating on what needs to be done on the football field and concentrating about what needs to be done on the training paddock," he said.
