Please End This Agony

[Yak]

Side note... when I went to Gosford on Saturday, DCE was well spoken, enthusiastic and IMO was the only Manly player who gave a $h!t. He's worth $750k+ and IMO based on his kicking game at the trial he'll be even more dominant this year (already better than Gronk by a mile). If he's not getting fair coin from Manly (while Willie Wanka and Thug Burgess are getting alright pay cheques) then he's right to look around without being viewed as a traitor IMO.

As much as I hate QLD and Manly he's a really good lad and deserves respect. I don't think his actions have burned any bridges or hurt his image.

Can't really recall his kicking game being all that great mate. He put one into the stands. Only got behind RTS once. And found him on the full a fair few times. Didn't test him with any bombs. And I think he got one repeat set. I might be biased though cos I really don't rate him all that highly. I personally think Pearce is now a superior halfback. DCE's defence is very questionable at times. Just ask Michael Jennings who from centre watched him let in multiple tries with shocking defence on the left edge.
He has a lot of very average kicks that just roll along the ground. And he can throw a shocker of a pass at times. Sure he can break a tackle. But the dollar values being thrown for he and Foran are just ridiculous imo.

[Tommy Smith]

I agree, 100%.

Pearce has a better passing and running game. And he's much better in defence.

I also heard that Parra had offered Foran 1.2 million per year! Holy moly he's not Brad Fittler!

[Guest]

They sure have and to clear the cap space, Cordner is going to newcastle, Guerra to Nth Queensland, RTS to union, Tupou to the bulldogs, Pearce to the Dragons, JWH to the Raiders, Jennings to NFL, SKD to Sydney FC (where you don't have to use your hands), and MLK to Ballet, have I missed anyone?

I knew someone else other than me would know whats happening. I think Maloney signed with the Nepal Donkeys for 2020 season.

[Parkway_Drive]

PeeWee Moke???

I had one of them, full of promise but couldn't start it at all. Got rid of it and got a Mini Moke and it racked up 302k kms..

[BarnstormingBlockbustin']

Side note... when I went to Gosford on Saturday, DCE was well spoken, enthusiastic and IMO was the only Manly player who gave a $h!t. He's worth $750k+ and IMO based on his kicking game at the trial he'll be even more dominant this year (already better than Gronk by a mile). If he's not getting fair coin from Manly (while Willie Wanka and Thug Burgess are getting alright pay cheques) then he's right to look around without being viewed as a traitor IMO.

As much as I hate QLD and Manly he's a really good lad and deserves respect. I don't think his actions have burned any bridges or hurt his image.

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Brent Read
The Australian
FEBRUARY 24, 2015 12:00AM

Cherry-Evans is making a mockery of Manly. Yesterday, he was caught waltzing into Cronulla with his manager Gavin Orr for talks with the Sharks. Apparently a $2.5 million offer is on the table.

Cherry-Evans enjoyed lunch with Cronulla chairman Damian Keogh, talked turkey, created waves and headed back to the northern beaches. Late last week, it was the Gold Coast as Cherry-Evans and his partner toured the tourist strip. According to Orr, *another club is on the agenda *tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Manly patiently wait for an answer on the multi-million dollar deal they have *tabled to the Queensland and Australian halfback as frustration and anger grow among his teammates.


Cherry-Evans has never been the most popular member of the Manly squad. Among many of his teammates, he now ranks somewhere alongside syndesmosis. At least one player is believed to have rung his manager and expressed his dismay with yesterday’s events. It would be a surprise if others didn’t do the same.

Cherry-Evans has every right to find out what he is worth on the open market. He has every right to talk to rival clubs. The question Sea Eagles supporters are rightly asking is why does he have to make such a sideshow of it. How is it that every move Cherry-Evans makes is documented by the media? He can blame clubs, he can even point the finger at Orr, but ultimately he is responsible for his actions.

Why couldn’t Cronulla officials cross the bridge to meet him? *Better still, why couldn’t he leave it in the hands of Orr?

Contrast that with five-eighth Kieran Foran. There is just as much demand for his services, if not more. Parramatta, Canterbury, the Sydney Roosters and the New Zealand Warriors want a piece of the Kiwi international. Foran is well aware of the interest but has told his manager Paul *Sutton to exhaust every avenue with Manly.

A week ago, Foran was a lock to stay at the Sea Eagles. Now his *career is back in the balance. Manly’s cause wasn’t helped by their performance last Saturday night as they were blown apart by the Sydney Roosters in a trial.

That performance only adds to the frustration over Cherry-Evans’s decision to conduct a personal tour of the NRL. Only days after being flogged, he was meeting officials from a rival club to *discuss his future.

Foran has carried himself with class, reinforcing the perception that he has the team at heart and Cherry-Evans is in it for himself. You can only imagine what former Manly forward Anthony *Watmough is thinking as he watches Cherry-Evans hock himself around the NRL.

Or Glenn Stewart for that matter. Fortunately, Stewart is still making his way back from *England, where he was part of the Souths squad that won the World Club Challenge.

Stewart and Watmough took pay cuts to stay at Manly during their stints at the club.

Cherry-Evans put his hand out for pay rises during that corresponding period. Now he is holding the Sea Eagles to ransom. He is making them sweat despite the club offering him a deal that would make him a multi-millionaire. Others have been forced out the door to appease the gifted *playmaker.

Yet Cherry-Evans insists on thumbing his nose at the club that gave him the chance to become a State of Origin and Test star. As good as he is — and he is very good — Manly have every right to ask whether he is worth the trouble.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015 12:00AM

Lol@Mongly

[kakaruk]

I wouldn't have a clue about where cherry ripe is going but i do know where taumalolo is headed and that's over the ditch unless of course the cows can match the offer and they wont imo.

[Bigchook]

Pretty poor article there I think. Dce has every right to do whatever he wants. It is the off season. The media follows him because he is one of the best players in the game. Who cares if watmough and Stewart took pay cuts? They are nowhere near as valuable as dce. Plus I believe their actions, along with matai, have hurt the club most.