DCE still battling ankle injury as Manly patch together team for home final
Christian Nicolussi
September 13, 2019 — 2.50pm
After checking on Tom Trbojevic in the Manly dressing-room the night the fullback ruptured his pectoral muscle, Sea Eagles captain Daly Cherry-Evans quietly wandered out the back of the Lottoland grandstand and hopped straight into a cryotherapy machine. Stripping down to his underpants, he stood inside it for three minutes.
A few weeks earlier he had done the same thing after helping steer the Sea Eagles to a healthy win over Wests Tigers. On a Saturday a fortnight prior, he did the same following a hammering of Newcastle
When he was weighing up his future four years ago, Cherry-Evans almost became a Shark after meeting with former coach Shane Flanagan and listening to a sales pitch from good friend Ben Barba, who was then playing at Cronulla. He liked the fact the Sharks were a bit like Manly, a blue-collar beaches club who punched above their weight.
Financially, an offer from fellow suitors Gold Coast Titans was the best while heading to Cronulla was the better football decision. Manly, however, eventually delivered on both fronts.
Cherry-Evans told the Herald his ankle had not been perfect but like the Sea Eagles, he always found it easier to lift when "adversity is at its highest".
"Coming back early from the ankle, I probably skipped a few stages of my rehab, and over the past couple of months I've been playing catch-up with that," Cherry-Evans said. "Coming back early wasn't the hard part, it was backing up after Origin with only four days recovery. There was the Cowboys game after Origin I and then Souths after Origin III. The process of getting the body right after four days and with an on-going ankle [injury] was hard work.
Christian Nicolussi
September 13, 2019 — 2.50pm
After checking on Tom Trbojevic in the Manly dressing-room the night the fullback ruptured his pectoral muscle, Sea Eagles captain Daly Cherry-Evans quietly wandered out the back of the Lottoland grandstand and hopped straight into a cryotherapy machine. Stripping down to his underpants, he stood inside it for three minutes.
A few weeks earlier he had done the same thing after helping steer the Sea Eagles to a healthy win over Wests Tigers. On a Saturday a fortnight prior, he did the same following a hammering of Newcastle
When he was weighing up his future four years ago, Cherry-Evans almost became a Shark after meeting with former coach Shane Flanagan and listening to a sales pitch from good friend Ben Barba, who was then playing at Cronulla. He liked the fact the Sharks were a bit like Manly, a blue-collar beaches club who punched above their weight.
Financially, an offer from fellow suitors Gold Coast Titans was the best while heading to Cronulla was the better football decision. Manly, however, eventually delivered on both fronts.
Cherry-Evans told the Herald his ankle had not been perfect but like the Sea Eagles, he always found it easier to lift when "adversity is at its highest".
"Coming back early from the ankle, I probably skipped a few stages of my rehab, and over the past couple of months I've been playing catch-up with that," Cherry-Evans said. "Coming back early wasn't the hard part, it was backing up after Origin with only four days recovery. There was the Cowboys game after Origin I and then Souths after Origin III. The process of getting the body right after four days and with an on-going ankle [injury] was hard work.
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