{"id":59729,"date":"2025-08-11T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59729\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:22:08","slug":"sydney-roosters-skipper-james-tedesco-praises-sam-walker-and-hugo-savala-for-ignoring-daly-cherry-evans-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59729\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters skipper James Tedesco praises Sam Walker and Hugo Savala for ignoring Daly Cherry-Evans speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Tedesco has heaped praise on young halves Sam Walker and Hugo Savala for the way they have struck up an on-field combination, and blocked out speculation about the expected arrival of Daly Cherry-Evans.<\/p>\n

Walker and Savala, both 23, are building momentum as the Sydney Roosters\u2019 halves, even though Savala is expected to make way for 36-year-old Cherry-Evans next season.<\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans\u2019 recent mixed form for Manly \u2013 and the rise of the young Roosters \u2013 has left plenty of Tricolours fans wondering if the Bondi club still needs the former Queensland skipper for 2026.<\/p>\n

No deal between the Roosters and DCE has been publicly confirmed.<\/p>\n

The combination of Walker, Savala and Tedesco has been going just fine, and will play a pivotal role in deciding Friday\u2019s result against the high-flying Bulldogs at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor all the outside noise, and for them not to worry about it, it\u2019s a real credit to them,\u201d Tedesco said of Walker and Savala. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of speculation around, and nobody really knows what\u2019s going to happen [next year].<\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/p>\n

Sam Walker produces another try assist, this time against the Dolphins in a thumping win on Saturday night.Credit: NRL Photos<\/p>\n

\u201cBut just chatting to those boys, they\u2019re focused on each week and the job they need to do. It\u2019s really impressive [how they are coping] at that age. Nobody thought Hugo would be the starting half this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came in late to the first-grade squad last year, he had some injuries, but he said to me, \u2018I knew if I worked hard, and I could prove myself, I\u2019d be able to get a start\u2019. And he\u2019s done that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Tedesco has heaped praise on young halves Sam Walker and Hugo Savala for the way they have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-59729","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\/59729","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=59729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}