{"id":120820,"date":"2025-09-05T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120820\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:02:13","slug":"match-report-round-27-vs-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120820\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: Round 27 vs Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have marked Daly Cherry-Evans\u2019 352nd and final game for the club with a 27-26 victory over the Warriors at 4 Pines Park.<\/p>\n

The home side recovered well after the worst possible start to take a 14-10 lead into half time, and held on to scrape home off the boot of their captain.<\/p>\n

The match kicked off before a capacity crowd at Brookie eager to watch Cherry Evans\u2019 final dance.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the start didn\u2019t go according to plan.<\/p>\n

The Warriors scored the opening try in record time, after just 9 seconds of play when DCE allowed the kick-off to bounce, Jason Saab then fumbled, and Warriors prop James Fisher-Harris did the rest.<\/p>\n


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It was a magic recovery from Cherry-Evans in the next few minutes.<\/p>\n

He kicked a trademark 40-20 to put his team back on the front foot, before putting Ben Trbojevic in a hole for Lehi Hopoate to score in the corner.\u00a0\u00a0 He then added the extras from out wide to get his team back level at 6-6.<\/p>\n


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The Sea Eagles next try came after the Warriors failed to diffuse a bomb which handed Manly another good attacking opportunity.<\/p>\n

Jake Simpkin soon spotted the smallest of openings and burrowed his way over from close range to put his side ahead 10-6<\/p>\n


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Hopoate then crossed for his second try in the 15th minute which followed a break by Manly from deep within their own half.<\/p>\n

A perfect long-ball from Tom Trbojevic sailed across the face of two defenders for Hopoate to stroll in untouched.<\/p>\n

Dallin Watene-Zelezniak was denied a try in the 28th minute after great scrambling defence by Manly saw him put a foot into touch to leave the score at 14-6 to the home side.<\/p>\n

The Warriors powerful right winger wouldn’t be denied seven minutes later. A mistake by Matt Lodge coming out from his own end presented the Wahs with the opportunity, before Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad threw a looping pass for Watene-Zelezniak to cross untouched.<\/p>\n

The second half was just two minutes old when Luke Brooks scored his team\u2019s fourth try, and his fourth for the season.<\/p>\n

The nifty No.6 threw a giant dummy before slicing through from 35 metres out to put his team ahead 20-10.<\/p>\n

Manly extended their lead to 26-10 about eight minutes into the second half after receiving possession from a contested bomb.<\/p>\n

Corey Waddell scooped up the ball and then provided a nice pass for Ethan Bullemor to cross for his fifth try of the season.<\/p>\n

The Warriors hit back five minutes later to make it 26-14 when Nicoll-Klokstad burst through a yawning gap on Manly\u2019s left edge.<\/p>\n

An injury to replacement Aaron Schoupp then saw local junior Joey Walsh enter the field on the hour mark to make his NRL debut.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old who went to school just across the road received a standing ovation from the 17-thousand-plus crowd.<\/p>\n

The Warriors reduced the margin to six points with six minutes remaining when dummy half Sam Healey darted over from close range to set up a nail-biting finish.<\/p>\n

The scriptwriter would have Cherry-Evans playing a pivotal role in the outcome of his final game for the club. Maybe a drop goal with his left foot? And he did.<\/p>\n


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With five minutes remaining, DCE stepped up to slot the match-deciding field goal, the 29th of his career, to give his team a seven-point buffer.<\/p>\n

The Warriors scored and converted in the dying minutes with DCE\u2019s one-pointer getting his team home, one last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly Warringah Sea Eagles have marked Daly Cherry-Evans\u2019 352nd and final game for the club with a 27-26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-120820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}