In June 2018, former teammate
Willie Mason claimed that when he was at Manly that nobody wanted to play alongside Cherry-Evans and that he was the reason there was such a divide at the club. Mason went on to say "I was there in 2015, I've never seen, never been involved in a team, that I could just see such a divide in a club, It was because of Cherry-Evans. All this **** that's been happening around him, like, something's wrong, "He then signed with the
Gold Coast Titans for like 10 years", Mason said. "And then there was a big ****ing meeting, Cherry-Evans has got something to say. "I just signed a deal with the Titans boys, blah blah blah". "I'm like, who gives a ****, you don't hold a meeting about that. No one cared".<a href="
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Mason's comments came in the wake of former Manly player
Anthony Watmough commenting on a podcast calling Cherry-Evans a "****wit" and that he was the reason other players needed to depart the club.<a href="
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