Sign up now!!! <\/a><\/p>\nRoosters ill-discipline problem on show | 02:31<\/p>\n
The performance in New Zealand continued a history of the Roosters starting seasons slowly, but the way they responded is testament to the club\u2019s culture. <\/p>\n
\u201cRound 1 wasn\u2019t what we wanted, it\u2019s not how we drew it up,\u201d Cherry-Evans said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe worked for three months as a team and we put in a lot of work, so it is actually sometimes a bit of a trap to lose round 1 and then feel like the world\u2019s ending.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut with the leaders we have here and the coach, we put it into perspective really quickly. It was a big wake-up call as to where we were and where we needed to be. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I definitely had a role to play in that, so I\u2019m proud of everyone to keep their heads nice and level and respond in the best way you can, which was through your performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cherry-Evans copped plenty of flak for his performance in round 1. Picture: Phil Walter\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
It will take time for Cherry-Evans and Sam Walker to build their combination in the halves, but the Rabbitohs game showed it\u2019s heading in the right direction heading into blockbuster battles with Penrith and then the veteran\u2019s return to 4 Pines Park to take on Manly. <\/p>\n
\u201cI would say I take a lot of pride in my performance still to this day,\u201d Cherry-Evans said, explaining how he dealt with the Warriors loss. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I was definitely disappointed on that plane ride home last week about how I performed and how I let my teammates down. I definitely didn\u2019t get caught up in the hysteria of the house is burning down, which some people made it look like. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like that\u2019s one of my strengths, putting things into perspective, so I was really clear on what needed to get fixed on my role, and then obviously as a halfback and a leader, how I could help the team. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd across the board tonight there were so many standout players, so it was really great to see everyone respond the way we did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took just one poor performance for the critics to come after Daly Cherry-Evans and the Roosters, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-542990","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\/542990","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=542990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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