IN a week the Newcastle Knights would prefer to forget, there has been at least one smiling face amid all the doom and gloom.
With the media preoccupied covering the toilet-cubicle incident involving Kalyn Ponga and Kurt Mann, and the dropping of Bradman Best and Enari Tuala for keeping the team bus waiting, the selection of Kristian Mapapalangi for his NRL debut has largely been reduced to a footnote.
