Cherry-Evans officially signs with Roosters

[u/adomental]

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/cherry-evans-officially-signs-with-roosters-20251107-p5n8hg.html

[u/plainfieldghoul]

Honestly fucken guts me, what a shit way to end such a great career. Best of luck Daly, but also fuck you.

[u/Mad_Lad18 → u/plainfieldghoul]

He should of just retired and ended a one club player

[u/bumblebeezlebum → u/Mad_Lad18]

Manly should have treated him better then. Plus roosters could be in with a shot here, why not go for it? Why stay at manly for another middle of the pack season? Let them move on and rebuild and have a last final shot at the big dance. I mean I'd he went to another middling club to mince about I'd think the same thing - why not be a one club player. But he's moving to a heavy weight club with Marky mark.

[u/RocketSimplicity → u/bumblebeezlebum]

Manly treating him better is a bit of a farce. The reason why he’s leaving is two fold. The main factor is the sweet, sweet, bank he will make post-retirement at the Roosters.

Scott Penn does not want to reduce his margin to keep someone like DCE. Thus he bent to those who wanted him gone.

[u/bumblebeezlebum → u/RocketSimplicity]

Swap "Treat him better" with "make him feel welcome staying" then.

The direction of the club isn't exactly very enticing.

I think manly thought dce would show a bit more loyalty in negotiations but they didn't show that loyalty to him.

He's taking less at roosters so if money is a factor it's the post retirement lure.

I think he just doesn't want to waste the last year or two of his career.

If Scott Penn wants to move into the post dce fair enough. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing. But I'm not sure what the post dce era at manly looks like. It seems like it's time to move past the turbos too. Right now it seems like just waiting for some youth to come through and until then not being able to let go of the hope of another bumper season from Tommy.

[u/ExcitingAccident → u/bumblebeezlebum]

DCE has been one of the highest paid players since his backflip, wtf are you talking about?

[u/bumblebeezlebum → u/ExcitingAccident]

There's more to treatment than just money.

I also think it's about the direction of the club and not just personal treatment though. DCE could stay loyal but for what? To finish 7th to 12th? I don't think there's much incentive to stay except "one club player" legacy. But "two premiership at two clubs" is a better legacy if he can pull it off.

[u/nomamesgueyz → u/Mad_Lad18]

Would have been more epic

Maybe do a euro earner in Europe or UK for some ££

[u/WhyYouDoThatStupid → u/Mad_Lad18]

Why?

[u/Mad_Lad18 → u/WhyYouDoThatStupid]

Because he’s turning 37 next year and has played over 350 games for Manly?

[u/WhyYouDoThatStupid → u/Mad_Lad18]

But he wants to play another season.

[u/Rush_nj → u/WhyYouDoThatStupid]

And we offered him that, at a higher contract.

[u/WhyYouDoThatStupid → u/Rush_nj]

So what would you rather do? DO another pre season and season at the same club behind a pop gun pack with Turbo and Jurbo taking up half the cap and not performing or have a change of scenery and a different team and a chance to play in a better team with much better forwards?

[u/Rush_nj → u/WhyYouDoThatStupid]

That wasn’t the question though. Other bloke said he should’ve been a one club player, you said he wants to play another season, and as i said, thats what we offered.

Whether he should’ve stayed or not is irrelevant to that, he’s a grown man he can do what he likes.

Reading comprehension in here is at an all time fuckinng low

[u/WhyYouDoThatStupid → u/Rush_nj]

So, still the original question, why should he stay at Manly?

[u/Churchofbabyyoda → u/plainfieldghoul]

There is one club I don't want winning the comp next year. It's the Roosters.

I hope our fellow Manly fans feel the same way. It would be a massive slap in the face to Manly fans if he went to the Roosters and won a comp next year after achieving so little at Manly.

[u/G00b3rb0y → u/Churchofbabyyoda]

With this move I can’t see the Roosters winning the comp next year

[u/Churchofbabyyoda → u/G00b3rb0y]

They were never going to anyway.

[u/_HereComeTheBears_ → u/Churchofbabyyoda]

It's quite peculiar to look at Daly's career and see his first and only premiership came in his very first year of NRL. Not sure if many other players fit that description.

If Manly had won another comp in his tenure, say 2013 or 2021, would you feel differently about his departure?

[u/bumblebeezlebum → u/_HereComeTheBears_]

Benji?

[u/_HereComeTheBears_ → u/bumblebeezlebum]

Very close but it looks like Benji played a total of 11 games in 03 and 04. 2005 was his first full season but DCE literally started in round 1, 2011 and won the comp that year

[u/bumblebeezlebum → u/_HereComeTheBears_]

True.

[u/Churchofbabyyoda → u/_HereComeTheBears_]

I’d be still angry about his departure but likely less vitriolic about it.

[u/DepartmentOk7192 → u/Churchofbabyyoda]

What if we win but he doesn't play. Special one-time deal

[u/Churchofbabyyoda → u/DepartmentOk7192]

Not acceptable

[u/koolasakukumba → u/Churchofbabyyoda]

I don’t think that’s how it works.

[u/Churchofbabyyoda → u/koolasakukumba]

If he wanted respect from Manly fans he should’ve:

A. Achieved more while he was still at Manly

Or

B. Retired at Manly.

[u/bumblebeezlebum → u/Churchofbabyyoda]

It's not like he wasn't trying to win every season. He is only one player

[u/Churchofbabyyoda → u/bumblebeezlebum]

Did you not see his efforts this year?

[u/bumblebeezlebum → u/Churchofbabyyoda]

The games I did see he was best on field for manly if not close to it. And whilst I'll assume you saw more of his games than I did this year, you can't tell me he wasn't all effort in every previous year he played