return to 4 Pines Park<\/a> for the first time as a Rooster after last year\u2019s controversial departure.<\/p>\nTuesday marks 12 months to the day since Cherry-Evans announced 2025 would be his last as a Sea Eagle, triggering weeks of off-field speculation as the team struggled on the field.<\/p>\n
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Manly are determined to come out the other side and forward Ben Trbojevic said the team is focused on moving forward rather than dwelling on the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He was a great player for this club for a massive period of time but we’re in a new era at Manly now,” Trbojevic said. “Turbo’s the captain, Jamal [Fogarty] has come in and he’s been doing great.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We’re excited to go out Thursday night and put our best foot forward for the fans.”<\/p>\n
Plenty has changed on the Northern Beaches since Cherry-Evans departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CEO Tony Mestrov left club in the off-season and was replaced by club legend and premiership winner Jason King as the Sea Eagles seek stability off the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tom Trbojevic is the new captain, while former Raiders halfback Jamal Fogarty has stepped into the No.7 jersey Cherry-Evans wore for 15 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Results on the field remain a work in progress, with Anthony Seibold’s side dropping their first two games before last week’s bye.<\/p>\n
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Despite this, Tom Trbojevic remains confident the side has turned a corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Jamal has been great,” Trbojevic said. “He’s been a great leader, he’s a great person, a great talker and he steers us around.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m excited for him to have another game with us this week and hopefully we can put in a performance and show everyone how hard we’re working.”<\/p>\n
Amid all the talk about Cherry-Evans has been constant chatter about the future of Jake Trbojevic following a series of head knocks last season.<\/p>\n
The former NSW skipper returned to the field in Round 1 but has faced criticism from some sections of the media over his performances.<\/p>\n
Trbojevic is contracted to the end of this year with an option for 2027 and is reportedly set to make a call on whether to play on later in the season.<\/p>\n
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Both Ben and Tom were quick to defend their older brother, with Tom backing the lock to return his best form.<\/p>\n
“It’s a little bit disappointing that he’s coming under fire,” Trbojevic said. “He’s really gone after the first two weeks with the way he’s played especially defensively.<\/p>\n
“A lot of people watch a game and get caught up in stats and what you need to do with the ball. But he’s a good leader with us in defence and the way he links our attack together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think it’s unfair he’s coming under criticism. The way he’s gone after these first two weeks, considering he’s coming off a head injury last year, it’s been great. He’s only going to get better this year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sea Eagles are determined to use Thursday\u2019s clash with the Roosters to put a punctuation mark on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-559734","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\/559734","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=559734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}