In a statement released on Wednesday, the NRL have revealed they will throw the \u2018World\u2019s Biggest Birthday Party\u2019 for South Sydney\u2019s match against Newcastle on Sunday, July 12 which is Arrow\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe NRL has announced it will throw the World\u2019s Biggest Birthday Party for Jai Arrow as the centrepiece of a series of fundraising activities to support his fight against motor neurone disease that will occur across the month of July,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be a case of the game uniting behind our own,\u201d ARL Commission chairman Peter V\u2019landys said via the NRL\u2019s statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a family. Jai and his family need our help and they will get it. One of the best things about Rugby League is its ability to unite for an important cause and they do not get more important than this.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn July 12, we will throw the biggest birthday party in the world for Jai. It will be a huge occasion with the whole game involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t bring presents. Bring a donation. And help Jai get through this with everyone in the rugby league community behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jai Arrow and his South Sydney teammates with the \u2018arrows up\u2019 gesture. Pic: Souths DigitalSource: Supplied<\/p>\n
As per the statement, several companies are sponsoring Jai July with donations over the next month.<\/p>\n
Coca-Cola South Pacific will donate $1000 for each try scored in NRL, NRLW and Origin games in July while insurance company Budget Direct will donate $1000 for each four-pointer the Rabbitohs score.<\/p>\n
In addition, Trading Card licensee Select have committed $40,000 to encourage players to stand with Jai with an arrow gesture after tries.<\/p>\n
For the event on July 12, two children will be admitted into Accor Stadium free with every adult ticket while popular children\u2019s group The Wiggles will perform. <\/p>\n
There will be a giant birthday cake presented to Jai post-game with fans allowed to enter the field of play following the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2019Jai July\u2019 is officially in full swing with the NRL announcing a special birthday celebration for Jai Arrow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-771703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}