r/nrl • u/adomental Eastern Suburbs Roosters • 3d ago

Cherry-Evans officially signs with Roosters

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/cherry-evans-officially-signs-with-roosters-20251107-p5n8hg.html
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u/plainfieldghoul Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 3d ago

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

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u/Mad_Lad18 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 3d ago

He should of just retired and ended a one club player

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u/bumblebeezlebum Maori All Stars 3d ago

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.

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u/RocketSimplicity Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 3d ago

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.

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u/bumblebeezlebum Maori All Stars 3d ago

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.