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    Former Sydney Roosters coach Brian Smith has hit out at fans for booing Manly's Daly Cherry-Evans when he was presented with the Clive Churchill medal after the NRL grand final.

    Smith, who coached new premiers the Roosters in their previous grand final in 2010, said the crowd's reaction was disrespectful and demeaning to Cherry-Evans - just the third player from the losing team to be handed the man-of-the-match honour in 27 years.

    "Booing the referees is always childish but booing the best player of the match as he receives his award on centre stage is downright disrespectful and very bad form," Smith wrote on his blog on Monday.

    "Not only is it demeaning to the player but also to those who made the selection and of the game's history and standing in the broader community.

    "A worldwide audience has taken that away with them as the way we treat our most outstanding performer on the biggest day of the season."

    Smith applauded a dignified Cherry-Evans for the way he dealt with the "distasteful" booing, adding that he was a worthy winner.

    The diminutive No.7 made two crucial line breaks shortly after halftime to shift the momentum of the game and give the Sea Eagles a 10-point advantage.

    In the end, the Roosters proved too good to win the match 26-18.

    "Obviously a very bittersweet moment. I'd definitely swap that for a premiership ring," admitted a surprised Cherry-Evans.

    http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8734932

  • #2
    Fark Brian Smith!
    Originally posted by turk-283
    Kurt 79 - Kags 0..

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    • #3
      Who cares what he thinks
      Rise Again. Represent 1908. Tick Tick Boom!

      Premiers 2013 - What a night! Bondi Junction till dawn! #BackOnTop

      Easts to Win.

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      • #4
        Obviously sore that it could've been him celebrating the win rather than Robbo.
        I'm glad it isn't, though.

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        • #5
          He must be deadset spewin haha. Not only cause we win the comp the season right after he left, but also cause he went 17 years without one and robbo won one in his first season!!

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          • #6
            Lol **** off Smithy.

            We can boo whoever we want for those GF ticket prices.

            It was farcical to award DCE the CCM so I booed as loud as I could. And id do it again!

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            • #7
              Boooooooo Brian Smith Boooooooooo


              ...where's Fred ?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by rwbfl View Post
                He must be deadset spewin haha. Not only cause we win the comp the season right after he left, but also cause he went 17 years without one and robbo won one in his first season!!
                LOL@Bwian.
                Originally posted by turk-283
                Kurt 79 - Kags 0..

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                • #9
                  Its a fair call in some ways. DCE can't help that he was awarded the CC medal.
                  But there should be no respect for those that awarded it to him, they are the real clowns in this circus
                  The Internet is a place for posting silly things
                  Try and be serious and you will look stupid
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                  • #10
                    I agree that it's disrespectful to those who selected him and to the fact he was given the award. That is why I booed as soon as I saw it was DCE. Sorry but he wasn't good enough to overthrow the long standing tradition of selecting the MOM from the WINNING team. It's hard to go past the fact that anything he did wasn't good enough to win the game. I think the decision was rubbish and have paid my disrespects to it in an appropriate manner...

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                    IMO selecting DCE was disrespectful to the tradition of choosing somebody from the winning team. It was also disrespectful to the Roosters fans and players like Maloney who were heavily criticised during Origin but backed up and ended up going one better than Cherry on an even bigger stage than Origin! Anybody who says that Pearce/Maloney choke in big games is a wanka!!!!! I get it... QLD currently has a better roster. Last night was OUR night, not a night for GI/Slater/Smith/Gronk/DCE/Thurston...etc. This decision totally p!ssed on our faces and deserved an equal amount of disrespect.

                    If Manly fans had stuck around, maybe he would have received some cheers? Instead they walked out on their team before they were presented with their prize. I gave Manly a clap for the competition they provided...

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                    • #11
                      You had to feel for Cherry-Evans in that moment. He didn't make the decision and would have been hurting like hell with the loss so fresh. I don't think anyone was directing their booing towards DCE, instead at the judges. I think that showed when Lyon went up on stage and a lot of that booing turned to clapping out of respect. DCE deserved a lot more respect than what he was shown. It was pretty poor form really regardless of who people who booing at. For what it's worth I didn't think he deserved the award. IMO Foran played better in both attack and defence. Their try to get out 10 ahead was all thanks to Foran running to the line before passing and getting us at sixes and sevens. Even though I hate the bloke with a passion, Watmough was very good last night. On our side it would have been out of Moa and SBW. Had Sonny Bill made one less pushed pass in the first half he probably wins it. He's also I victim of his consistency. He was a machine in defence last night. His only error was not waiting long enough for Guerra to make it to A defender meaning he rushed in for their last try. His runs in the second half got us back into the game and eventually won it for us.

                      One more aerial try by Tupou though and I reckon he might have had it and I would have cleaned up after checking a lazy 20 on him at $51 for CCM haha

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Kingbilly View Post
                        Its a fair call in some ways. DCE can't help that he was awarded the CC medal.
                        But there should be no respect for those that awarded it to him, they are the real clowns in this circus
                        If the Manly fans had stayed around then he would have been given a clap for his efforts...

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                        • #13
                          Brian Smith has become a real keyboard warrior lately he can stick his opinion up his arse the hack the booing was more about the decision not to hand it to one of our players Cherry Evans did have a top game but didn't get his team over the line I thought Moa was MOM.

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                          • #14
                            Fark u smith washed up never been
                            " A man can only walk as far as he can see"

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by cocky rooster man View Post
                              Brian Smith has become a real keyboard warrior lately he can stick his opinion up his arse the hack the booing was more about the decision not to hand it to one of our players Cherry Evans did have a top game but didn't get his team over the line I thought Moa was MOM.
                              Some of the booing was for Smith

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