{"id":297717,"date":"2025-11-20T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297717\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:42:14","slug":"daly-cherry-evans-comments-on-r360-potential-code-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297717\/","title":{"rendered":"Daly Cherry-Evans comments on R360, potential code switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daly Cherry-Evans<\/a> has squashed any suggestion of him joining R360<\/a> in the future, but did admit he “can’t begrudge” players who do make the switch.<\/p>\n

The rebel rugby union competition has become a major headache for the NRL in recent months, with multi-million dollar contracts being tabled to some high-profile stars.<\/p>\n

Zac Lomax<\/a> and Ryan Papenhuyzen<\/a> have been linked with R360 and have already been granted releases from their contracts with the Eels and Storm respectively.<\/p>\n

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The likes of Payne Haas<\/a>, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and Jye Gray have also been in the sights of the cashed-up competition, which is likely to kick off in late-2026.<\/p>\n

Speaking to media for the first time since joining the Roosters in a blockbuster move, Cherry-Evans was quizzed about the potential of ending his career there.<\/p>\n

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Daly Cherry-Evans speaks about possible R360 code-hoppers\u00a0Nine\/Getty<\/p>\n

“I don’t fit the criteria when it comes to age,” the 36-year-old laughed.<\/p>\n

“Anyone who is talking to them, within their boundaries and what the NRL guidelines are, I can’t begrudge them at all.<\/p>\n

“The life-changing money they are talking about, I completely understand why they would be interested in it.<\/p>\n

“As for me right now, I feel like I’ve still got more to achieve in the game of rugby league. Rugby league has been my first love for a long time, so as long as I’m able to continue in the game, I’m gonna wanna do that.<\/p>\n

“Like I said, rugby and me probably aren’t a great couple at the moment.”<\/p>\n

It comes as the NRL attempts to ban players who switch to the competition for 10 years.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans, up until this week, had served on the RLPA board and remains one of the game’s most respected voices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daly Cherry-Evans has squashed any suggestion of him joining R360 in the future, but did admit he “can’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-297717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297717","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=297717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}