By MARK CASHMAN

Sport is often about redemption and there was certainly an element of that in the way that the big northern beaches derby between Manly and Warringah played out on Saturday

On one side there was the disaffected star player moving to the big local rival and then in the derby three weeks on it all pans out just like on Friday Night Lights - and it did.

Harley Attwater called the shots and scored 19 points for the Marlins as they won the big beaches showdown 39-19 for the first time in two and a half years on the weekend.