{"id":565322,"date":"2026-03-26T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:27:12","slug":"cherry-evans-booed-on-brookvale-return-with-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565322\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry-Evans booed on Brookvale return with Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daly Cherry-Evans has been booed on his return to Brookvale Oval, in the Manly great’s first game against the Sea Eagles since leaving the club last year.<\/p>\n

After heavy thunderstorms briefly wiped out power at parts of Brookvale on Thursday evening, Cherry-Evans then received a chilly reception from sections of the crowd.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old’s name was loudly booed as the Sydney Roosters’ team list was read out, while he also copped jeers along with teammates as he ran out for the match.<\/p>\n

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Daly Cherry-Evans (c) during the Roosters’ pre-match warm up. (Dan Himbrechts\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

The playmaker did not have a chance to touch the ball before Manly’s first try, with Jason Saab breaking down field and sending Tom Trbojevic over after 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

But once he did lay hands on it in the fourth minute, he was again given loud boos on each of his first touches.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans was still being cheered for most of his last season at Manly, despite his high-profile announcement last March that he was leaving the club at season’s end.<\/p>\n

But the story was clearly different with Cherry-Evans’ now in the red white and blue, after 352 games for the Sea Eagles.<\/p>\n

The boos didn’t stop the half handing his training shirt to one young Manly fan as he left the field after warm up.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans’ return came after it at one stage appeared the game may not start on time, following a heavy storm around 90 minutes before kick off.<\/p>\n

Electricians worked fast to repair the big screen and speaker system, while the stadium’s lights also went out during the storm.<\/p>\n

So heavy were the wind and rain, a tarpaulin that was secured over a drum kit and speakers on the field was blown away, with debris also across the field.<\/p>\n

There was no guarantee the match would continue uninterrupted, with play unable to proceed if there was lightning within 10 kilometres of the venue.<\/p>\n

But while there were still regular bolts of lightning towards the coastline closer to kick off, teams were able to warm up on the field and were cleared to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daly Cherry-Evans has been booed on his return to Brookvale Oval, in the Manly great’s first game against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,154771,60217,4430,278313,761,762,158,4523,85,1080],"class_list":["post-565322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brookvale-oval","tag-cherry-evans","tag-daly-cherry-evans","tag-heavy-thunderstorms","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sea-eagles","tag-sports","tag-sydney-roosters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565322","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=565322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}