Revealed: The ‘special’ DCE treatment that divided Manly long before pride jersey saga
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Hadley criticised coach Des Hasler’s preferential treatment of Cherry-Evans after reporting the Maroons captain wasn’t subjected to the same bubble conditions as his teammates during the 2021 season.
It was reported that the 33-year-old was allowed to live away from the standard accommodation in a house with his family, which caused frustration amongst the playing group.
“We all know that last year, first of all the players went into a bubble and a number of clubs went into Twin Waters in the Sunshine Coast,” Hadley revealed on
2GB.
“I think Penrith were among the clubs that went there, Manly certainly went there, Newcastle went there and maybe the Roosters were there at a time as well.
“Manly were there as well, they went there,
when restrictions were eased the families were exported from New South Wales to spend time with the players and be housed in I guess a location where fathers had access to children and their wives, partners and things like that.
“On the Sunshine Coast Manly there with other New South Wales based teams t
here was apparently special dispensation given to the skipper Daly Cherry-Evans to live away from the bubble in a house.
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Completely legal but that didn’t go down too well with other players, whose wives and family were living in close vicinity to where they were.
“You had the coach allowing the captain to be special and live in a house away from the rest of the players and that created a divide and I’ve confirmed that with a number of players.
“They tell me that it created a divide and that divide was well before the rainbow jumper round, well before it.
“To try and trace it back to happening around the rainbow jumper round is ridiculous, it happened when Des Hasler decided as the coach to allow the captain to live elsewhere and some of the players were upset about it and continue to be upset about it.