{"id":912587,"date":"2026-10-01T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912587\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:38:26","slug":"nrl-grand-final-news-2026-daly-cherry-evans-reveals-familys-impact-on-sydney-roosters-move-last-season-premiership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912587\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL grand final news 2026: Daly Cherry-Evans reveals family\u2019s impact on Sydney Roosters move, last season, premiership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daly Cherry-Evans<\/a> has opened up about the role his family played in motivating his journey towards this weekend\u2019s NRL grand final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The departing Roosters<\/a> star will take the field for the final time this Sunday, facing off against the Newcastle Knights<\/a> at Accor Stadium, capping off a stellar 16-year NRL career before heading to the Super League with Hull City<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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DCE with his daughters.\u00a0Nine News<\/p>\n

There was plenty made about Cherry-Evans leaving the Sea Eagles<\/a> at the end of last season and continuing his career with another club.<\/p>\n

But according to the 37-year-old, the opportunity to win another premiership before heading overseas was much about himself as it was showing his daughters Navi, Harvie and Tully to always continuing chasing their dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201c[They] are a big reason why I\u2019m still playing at the age I\u2019m at is because I feel like, by me going after this job that I am so lucky to have, I feel like it inspires them to chase their dreams one day,\u201d he told 9News Sydney on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy kids, like anyone\u2019s kids, they keep me young, they keep me on my toes. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey humble me all the time, so they\u2019re a big reason why I\u2019m still going and it\u2019s going to make it all the more special this weekend having them involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

A grand final victory with the Roosters could be a full circle moment for the champion halfback, who has achieved just about everything in the game. <\/p>\n

Cherry-Evans tasted premiership success in his rookie 2011 campaign with Manly and could do it again his final season and game in the NRL.<\/p>\n

But when asked, the veteran didn\u2019t let his mind wander from the job ahead of him. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to accept everything that comes with this week,\u201d Cherry-Evans said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t get to do these commitments if you\u2019re not playing in the grand final. I\u2019m definitely aware of how lucky I am to be playing in a grand final.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut again, what I want is to win the grand final, so it\u2019s making sure that my focus stays where I need it … I can\u2019t let my focus drift any further than the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daly Cherry-Evans has opened up about the role his family played in motivating his journey towards this weekend\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-912587","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\/912587","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=912587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}