{"id":300182,"date":"2025-11-21T22:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:50:43","slug":"james-tedesco-extends-deal-with-sydney-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300182\/","title":{"rendered":"James Tedesco extends deal with Sydney Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like Cherry-Evans, Tedesco is capable of playing on until he is 36 or 37, although fullback is a lot more taxing on the body compared to being a halfback.<\/p>\n

Asked on Thursday if there was a sense of urgency to win another title as he inches closer to the end of his career, Tedesco said: \u201cI\u2019ve won two, there\u2019s no real urgency [to win a third].<\/p>\n

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This sight will take some getting used to: New Rooster Daly Cherry-EvansCredit: Peter Rae<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, when I became captain, it was a goal to win a premiership as captain. The captains before me who have won are legends of our club, and legends of the game, and I really want to be a part of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a long-term goal. It\u2019s more about the short-term goals, that starts in the pre-season, building our combinations, getting myself healthy, fit and fast \u2026 I definitely feel like the talent we have, we can give it a good shake, but it\u2019s about keeping our focus narrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sight of Cherry-Evans in red, white and blue will take a bit of time for fans to get used to, especially those on the Northern Beaches who were convinced he would finish a Sea Eagle for life.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans\u2019s switch to the Roosters was one of the game\u2019s worst-kept secrets last season, but when pressed on when he actually struck a deal, the Queenslander said: \u201cEven if I had made my decision during the year, the best thing wasn\u2019t to announce it out of respect to the fans at both clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe often talk about how hard it is for fans to look at their players, or not treat them differently when they know they are going somewhere else. Having that in mind, I actually felt like the most respectful thing to do was to wait until the season was done, and the new era could start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manly have parted ways with CEO Tony Mestrov, who was in charge when Cherry-Evans announced he would not extend his Sea Eagles deal, and appointed Jason King<\/a>, a premiership-winning forward in 2011, in his place. But Cherry-Evans said it was impossible to know if he would have remained in maroon and white had King been given the top job earlier.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople are underestimating my role in this,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to want to blame people at Manly, but the reality is I didn\u2019t get traded, I didn\u2019t get swapped, I was a free agent \u2013 and at the end of the season I made a decision to go somewhere else.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow it was all managed, and why it ended the way it did, they\u2019re stories for another day, but I think it\u2019d be silly for me to stand here in a Roosters jersey talking about what could have been at Manly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to be standing here as a Rooster. I\u2019m also proud of my career at Manly. I don\u2019t look at that and think of it as a sad situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great to be part of that club\u2019s history for so long \u2013 now I\u2019ve got the opportunity to do it here with another club, and that really excites me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like Cherry-Evans, Tedesco is capable of playing on until he is 36 or 37, although fullback is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-300182","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\/300182","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=300182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}