New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nKeary, who is now a coaching assistant at the Roosters, says Cherry-Evans has hit the ground running this off-season in readiness for the 2026 campaign. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe came in a little bit earlier. Sam\u2019s (Walker) been back and they spent a bit of time together before Christmas,\u201d Keary said on SEN.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s going to bring stability and experience. He\u2019s been awesome around the group, everyone likes him (and he) gives you that confidence. This dude\u2019s done it all for a long period of time. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou look beside you and you know exactly what you\u2019re getting out of him so I\u2019m really looking forward to seeing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know how it would feel as a player of his age, he\u2019s gonna have a fresh start. I reckon he\u2019s gonna be super excited and he\u2019ll do a good job for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cherry-Evans probably doesn\u2019t arrive at his new club with the same level of expectations Cronk did eight years prior given the former Sea Eagles\u2019 halfback\u2019s indifferent form in 2025.<\/p>\n
However, Keary, who played alongside Cronk in the halves in both 2018 and 2019 grand final victories, says the comparisons between the two Queensland legends will be made regardless.<\/p>\n
Luke Keary, Cooper Cronk and James Tedesco celebrate after the Roosters defeated Canberra in the 2019 decider.Source: AAP<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to get (compared to Cronk), I think he knows that,\u201d Keary continued. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite obvious, like how Cooper\u2019s come at this stage of his career, where Daly\u2019s come at this stage of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything that happens for them next year, it\u2019s going to be compared to what Cooper did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cherry-Evans is on a two-year deal with the Roosters with a player option in his favour for 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Roosters star Luke Keary says Daly Cherry-Evans has hit the ground running at his new club as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,27651,11101,4430,763,205315,56527,761,762,158,122390,205314,4478,85],"class_list":["post-381686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-scene","tag-cooper-cronk","tag-daly-cherry-evans","tag-fox-league","tag-ground-running","tag-luke-keary","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-player-option","tag-roosters-deeds","tag-sam-walker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381686","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=381686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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