DCE deserved ‘discount’ for 14-year clean record, say teammates

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Manly players person asked wherefore Daly Cherry-Evans’ unblemished disciplinary grounds was not taken into relationship arsenic the Sea Eagles skipper prepares to beforehand the NRL judiciary for the archetypal clip successful his 14-year career.

Cherry-Evans was deed with a grade-two unsafe propulsion complaint for a lifting tackle connected Shaun Lane successful the lucifer against Parramatta connected Friday. If palmy successful seeking a downgrade, helium volition beryllium handed a $1000 good and beryllium escaped to play connected Friday against the Raiders.

Sea Eagles teammate Haumole Olakau’atu volition miss the adjacent 2 weeks aft helium entered an aboriginal blameworthy plea for his portion successful the aforesaid tackle.

The back-rower volition usage the fortnight retired of the crippled to freshen up earlier a instrumentality that is apt to see his archetypal NSW Origin call-up.

Should the judiciary find him guilty, Cherry-Evans volition miss 3 games, ruling him retired of Magic Round successful Brisbane adjacent month.

A comparable tackle was made by Jackson Hastings and Joe Ofahengaue, past playing for the Wests Tigers successful 2022, erstwhile they lifted Newcastle’s Tex Hoy.

Daly Cherry-Evans and Haumole Olakau’atu person been deed with two-match bans for this tackle connected Shaun Lane

Ofahengaue, who was holding Hoy’s precocious body, akin to the relation Cherry-Evans played successful the Lane tackle, was lone charged with a grade-one unsafe propulsion and fined.

Cherry-Evans’ lawyer Nick Ghabar is expected to constituent to his client’s exemplary record, which has ne'er featured a suspension. He was charged erstwhile – besides for a unsafe propulsion against the Eels, successful 2018 – but did not miss immoderate crippled time.

Star Manly fullback Tom Trbojevic said the NRL should research a strategy that rewarded cleanable skins specified arsenic Cherry-Evans.

“Daly has played implicit 300 games, but if idiosyncratic plays 1 crippled and commits the aforesaid offence, they service the aforesaid magnitude of clip retired of the game,” Trbojevic told this masthead. “You’d similar to deliberation determination has to beryllium a discount.

“They can’t bash it now, which is fine, but hopefully astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth they tin look astatine thing similar this.”

Jake Trbojevic, who volition instrumentality implicit arsenic Manly skipper if Cherry-Evans fails astatine the judiciary, said: “We hazard losing the astir experienced subordinate this nine has had, and we’ve mislaid the astir in-form subordinate this nine has astatine the moment.

“I didn’t deliberation determination was overmuch successful the tackle. I’ve seen worse fto go. It’s pugnacious due to the fact that those guys play close adjacent to each other.

“If ‘Chez’ is suspended, it volition springiness the accidental to idiosyncratic else. I’m looking guardant to idiosyncratic similar Jake Arthur coming in, he’s a large young kid who works truly hard and is conscionable a bully guy.”

Olakau’atu was sin-binned for the tackle connected Lane, who was not injured and capable to instrumentality aft a caput wounded appraisal and decorativeness the game. The Eels asked wherefore Cherry-Evans was besides not sent to the bin and the Sea Eagles reduced to 11 men.

Meanwhile, NRL caput of elite competitions Graham Annesley confirmed Tom Trbojevic was offside, chasing aft a Luke Brooks kick, erstwhile Parramatta’s Will Penisini tackled him without the shot and was sin-binned. Rather than beryllium reduced to 12 men, the Eels should person received a punishment astatine the different extremity of the field.

Annesley besides confirmed the bunker had got it close erstwhile denied Wests Tigers skipper Api Koroisau a effort aft helium failed to regrip the shot connected Saturday night.

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