Former Knights captain Mitchell Pearce says the short-term sacrifices players will make during the next month are outweighed by the importance of keeping the competition going. Pearce and his Knights teammates were told on Sunday night they'll be relocating to Queensland for at least a month with the COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney threatening the competition. The city of Newcastle hasn't recorded a single case of COVID-19 in the latest wave in NSW but along with the ACT-based Raiders, both sides will join 10 other NRL clubs shifting north until at least round 22. "From the players' point of view we were all aware that it [relocating] was always a possibility," Pearce said on Monday.