The Daly Cherrygraph

[Ashton Davis]

Another sad chapter to this saga. We’ve conceded our highest score ever to Melbourne. Thank fark it wasn’t 50+

 

[hozza]

I think he did

Giraffe neck in full headless chook mode this afternoon. 😂 funny not funny..

 

[Fibro Eagle]

Giraffe neck in full headless chook mode this afternoon. 😂 funny not funny..

That stupid flick pass sums that up

 

[Waz13]

He was awful today. And low and behold against a strong opposition. The chook was on show that’s for sure.

Have loved the guy for many years, but the reality is we ain’t winning a GF with him. Cutting him loose and freeing up cash to strengthen other areas is the right decision.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Yet ... that hasn't stopped you from posting a hundred times arguing for one side of the issue ...

👏👏👏👏👍

 

[Dee Why Eagle]

Anyone think the DCE debacle hasn't affected this lot. Just WOW. What an embarrassment.

Reading too much into it... Storm just too good & would have beaten any other team today

 

[JakeyB789]

Reading too much into it... Storm just too good & would have beaten any other team today

Ehh I agree but it just further proved that DCE can’t do **** without Tom. Proud of the club for making a stand and getting rid of the flog. We need a culture reset and have made the best move possible despite what people may think of the situation.

 

[Uk eagle]

Reading too much into it... Storm just too good & would have beaten any other team today

Agreed that the storm would have been way too good for any other team. However that can't excuse DCE's performance today. With all his top level experience and being supposedly one of the top three halfbacks in the game he should be able to guide his team to better than that. Running around in circles doesn't inspire confidence from his teammates

 

[Wombat64]

Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield’s weekend highlights and lowlights: Daly Cherry-Evans circus hurting Manly​

All in sundry will deny it but there’s no hiding the fact Manly is suffering from the Daly Cherry-Evans contract drama as evidenced in the club’s diabolical loss to Melbourne at Brookvale Oval. Plus Buzz’s highlight, lowlight and spotted.

Phil "the old piss head" Rothfield

April 6, 2025 - 6:54PM

Manly is playing like a team torn apart by the Daly Cherry-Evans contract drama.
When was the last time the Sea Eagles turned in such a lacklustre performance like on Sunday against Melbourne Storm at Brookie? Take nothing away from Storm but Manly were awful. It would be very easy to sit back and blame the absence of champion fullback Tom Trbojevic. And that front-row metre eater Taniela Paseka is out for the year. Coach Anthony Seibold will deny it had anything to do with the Cherry-Evans circus. But you could almost tell from their body language.That they just didn’t turn up.
And you can almost understand why the players looked so dispirited. How are they supposed to feel when their captain so publicly admits he no longer wants to be there? That he’s bailing out. Jake Trbojevic is already on record as saying he could never do it. His brother Tom offered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars of his contract when he was sidelined for a long period. That’s what the jersey and logo mean to them.

Before the Cherry-Evans story broke we were talking about Manly as a definite top-four side and a serious contender to go all the way. Their late tries made the scoreboard look slightly more respectable. But they got pumped and conceded 48 points at what is normally their fortress. We concede that DCE is not the first player to announce he is leaving a club well in advance. But there’s a difference. Dylan Brown has 13 million reasons to declare he was leaving at the end of the season. The same with James Fisher-Harris at Penrith when he revealed his plans to join the Warriors midway through last year. Teammates could understand the reason why. In DCE’s case he supposedly has nothing planned. He just doesn’t want to be there beyond this year. Simple as that.

 

[Wombat64]

Reading too much into it... Storm just too good & would have beaten any other team today

No way, The bulldogs wouldn't have let them score 48. That was appalling. **** attitude ..... awful defence. Three tries scored the 1st set after a kick off.

 

[HoldenV8]

Another sad chapter to this saga. We’ve conceded our highest score ever to Melbourne. Thank fark it wasn’t 50+

I'd seriously LOL @ Harry Grant for not taking the easy 2 on offer to make if 50 if we actually manage to win the Premiership this year.

Honestly though, I think Harry is safe from my laughter.....

 

[Uber Eagle 72]

Personally I don’t think he played that badly certainly not his best. We were absolutely trounced in the ruck today basically running backwards….

 

[LeonardCohen]

Personally, I don't think enough is being made of the injuries we have. We all know Manly is not the same proposition when Turbo does not play. Then you factor in Croker is missing and they've got Harry Grant. We've got Clayton Faulalo on the wing, with no Tommy Talau to offset moving Hoppa to 1. We started the year with one of the weakest middle rotations in the league and lost Paseka and Aloiai and we can't use Lodge until rd.11. Brown and TKO try hard but they're both a few years past their best football, playing against the benchmark team in the competition.

Personally, I always thought we'd get owned in the middle today. I don't believe we didn't turn up. I think we lost the game when the team sheet came out last Tuesday. We don't have the cattle. You can spring an upset or fight against the odds against some of the 'also rans' (e.g. Souths win against the Chooks who are second last), but it's rarely, if ever, going to happen against premiership favourites, in the Melbourne Storm.

 

[Waz13]

I'd seriously LOL @ Harry Grant for not taking the easy 2 on offer to make if 50 if we actually manage to win the Premiership this year.

Honestly though, I think Harry is safe from my laughter.....

Haha Munster was screaming at him to take the two. My respect for Harry actually grew in that moment. I reckon he said to Munster “shut the f$&@ up, we ain’t about taking 2pts to get to 50. We’ll get it by scoring a try, not by sone dodgy penalty goal”.

 

[Waz13]

Personally, I don't think enough is being made of the injuries we have. We all know Manly is not the same proposition when Turbo does not play. Then you factor in Croker is missing and they've got Harry Grant. We've got Clayton Faulalo on the wing, with no Tommy Talau to offset moving Hoppa to 1. We started the year with one of the weakest middle rotations in the league and lost Paseka and Aloiai and we can't use Lodge until rd.11. Brown and TKO try hard but they're both a few years past their best football, playing against the benchmark team in the competition.

Personally, I always thought we'd get owned in the middle today. I don't believe we didn't turn up. I think we lost the game when the team sheet came out last Tuesday. We don't have the cattle. You can spring an upset or fight against the odds against some of the 'also rans' (e.g. Souths win against the Chooks who are second last), but it's rarely, if ever, going to happen against premiership favourites, in the Melbourne Storm.

Well put. Injuries in this club have been a problem for 10yrs. 2025 is no different. And now we have Saab gone as well. To compete with Melb we need to be close to full strength. Heck Bellamy knew how important this game was to his lot he played Hughes with a broken hand! Injuries are already hurting us in 25. And now we go to Perth to play Cronulla. Well prob be 3-3 after next Sat.

 

[bob dylan]

Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield’s weekend highlights and lowlights: Daly Cherry-Evans circus hurting Manly​

All in sundry will deny it but there’s no hiding the fact Manly is suffering from the Daly Cherry-Evans contract drama as evidenced in the club’s diabolical loss to Melbourne at Brookvale Oval. Plus Buzz’s highlight, lowlight and spotted.

Phil "the old piss head" Rothfield

April 6, 2025 - 6:54PM

Manly is playing like a team torn apart by the Daly Cherry-Evans contract drama.
When was the last time the Sea Eagles turned in such a lacklustre performance like on Sunday against Melbourne Storm at Brookie? Take nothing away from Storm but Manly were awful. It would be very easy to sit back and blame the absence of champion fullback Tom Trbojevic. And that front-row metre eater Taniela Paseka is out for the year. Coach Anthony Seibold will deny it had anything to do with the Cherry-Evans circus. But you could almost tell from their body language.That they just didn’t turn up.
And you can almost understand why the players looked so dispirited. How are they supposed to feel when their captain so publicly admits he no longer wants to be there? That he’s bailing out. Jake Trbojevic is already on record as saying he could never do it. His brother Tom offered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars of his contract when he was sidelined for a long period. That’s what the jersey and logo mean to them.

Before the Cherry-Evans story broke we were talking about Manly as a definite top-four side and a serious contender to go all the way. Their late tries made the scoreboard look slightly more respectable. But they got pumped and conceded 48 points at what is normally their fortress. We concede that DCE is not the first player to announce he is leaving a club well in advance. But there’s a difference. Dylan Brown has 13 million reasons to declare he was leaving at the end of the season. The same with James Fisher-Harris at Penrith when he revealed his plans to join the Warriors midway through last year. Teammates could understand the reason why. In DCE’s case he supposedly has nothing planned. He just doesn’t want to be there beyond this year. Simple as that.

I bet that article was written about last Tuesday just hoping Manly got beaten.

 

[Hertera]

I bet that article was written about last Tuesday just hoping Manly got beaten.

It's more a dig at DCE not us

 

[lsz]

Honestly I am gutted we are not going to have him as I think he is a quality player but after what I saw today it just reaffirmed to me that another 2 years of DCE would just delay the inevitable slump post DCE.

We are miles off winning a comp and need something to change, which is going to take time. Next couple of years will be about developing the kids to hopefully get us going

 

[eaglebuzz]

Honestly I am gutted we are not going to have him as I think he is a quality player but after what I saw today it just reaffirmed to me that another 2 years of DCE would just delay the inevitable slump post DCE.

We are miles off winning a comp and need something to change, which is going to take time. Next couple of years will be about developing the kids to hopefully get us going

I don't think the slump will be too much of a slump if we can save some coin and use it to buy better forwards.

 

[bob dylan]

Honestly I am gutted we are not going to have him as I think he is a quality player but after what I saw today it just reaffirmed to me that another 2 years of DCE would just delay the inevitable slump post DCE.

We are miles off winning a comp and need something to change, which is going to take time. Next couple of years will be about developing the kids to hopefully get us going

Yep 100% right.

The mindset of the front office needs to change.

They have to stop looking around to see who is available to coach and to play when we have a vacancy.

We need to be aggressive and and headhunt the best.

If we are not going to do that we will have to wait for the best juniors to come along like Penrith have. A once in a lifetime scenario.