The Daly Cherrygraph

[Chip and Chase]

And that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

In the 10 years since he backflipped on the Titans, the only thing he has won (outside of State of Origin and other rep duties) is a Clive Churchill medal in a grand final we lost, and he was lucky to get that.

I get why we were desperate to re-sign him (Foran was already gone, and the panic set in), but in hindsight surely we would have been better to have let him walk. We could have had another halfback - or two or three other halfbacks - in that time for the same amount of premierships: zero, zilch, nada. We might have even been more successful as a club. But of course, we'll never know.

His best quality in his time with us has been his durability. He has been remarkably free of injury. He's won us a handful of games with field goals, and he's always been good for a 40/20. We've made the finals a few times, although apart from that one grand final we've never looked like serious contenders. And that's pretty much all we've got to show for it.

He will walk into a stacked Roosters team next year and they will likely be more successful than we will. They might even win Cherry a "fairytale" grand final. Hurray. He can then retire a Roosters legend.

I probably won't be thrilled if that happens. But I will still be thrilled his era with Manly is finally over. We weren't able to build anything with him, so we may as well try to build something without him.

Just to be clear he backflipped in 2015 so he can't even claim his 2013 CC medal as an achievement during his years as THE highest paid player in the game. His last accolade of any note was a Dally M halfback of the year in 2014 - once again pre backflip.

I can't blame the club for signing him in 2015 because at that point in his career he looked like he might amount to something. However that contract should have been 3-4 years max so we had an out in case he turned out to be just a solid NRL player. The 8 year $10mil deal was ridiculous, the Dollar Chaser slipped the gear lever into 3rd and that's where it has stayed ever since. Turned out just to be an average to solid NRL player in the end. The kicker was the morons then extended him for another 2 years to deliver the same rubbish for another 2 seasons. Mind blowing incompetence, and look how he has thanked them.

Round 27 can't come quick enough.

(* waits for someone to post his list of clubman of the year awards and Silvertails MVP's as justification of his elite status)

 

[BirdMan4ever]

His short line drop-out restart doesn't gets sufficient height for anyone to contest the ball. It usually goes straight to an opposition player 20 metres from our line. Maybe someone else should try this kick?

Maybe he was thinking about the brown bag from uncle Nick against the roosters

 

[tookey]

Has anyone else noticed how DCE spends the whole full time press conference touching his head and his face? It's really strange.

Just checking that the dick isn't growing back again