Player of Interest – Daly-Cherry Evans
Next up, is Postman Pat (aka Adam Stiles) with a preview of the former enemy of the Sunshine State turned State of Origin and Queensland hero, Daly Cherry-Evans.
Cheers,
Wenin
A model of consistency in a volatile SuperCoach position, Cherry-Evans posted a 62ppg season average each year from 2017-19, with a slight uptick to 64ppg in 2020. After maturing a lot since his ‘backflip’ days, the Maroons captain and Australia representative presents a solid starting option in 2021 and a viable alternative to Nathan Cleary due to the >$160k price difference. In a boon for potential owners, he appears set for kicking duties this season with Reuben Garrick seemingly on the outer. A solid striker of the ball when he has previously taken on the duty, he has averaged between 75-82% from 2017-20 which helps to solidify what is quite a modest base average of 22bppg, which for reference is 15bppg below the position leader Dylan Brown. Manly doesn’t have the kindest opening draw, however Cherry-Evans has a good record against his opening opponents including 102 against Penrith, 67 against the Rabbitohs and 60 against the Roosters in 2020.
Is he on your radar?
No mention of the (alleged) Turbo factor?
I owned DCE from start to finish last year, and he became one of my best players. But he had a very lean patch, with a few under 30 scores. I only kept him because of the 2020 injury chaos elsewhere.
He’s a ‘wait and see’ for me.
3 scores under 40 against Storm twice and Raiders
Was keen on DCE when there was talks of Garrick to the dragons but if Saab/Taufua get the starting wings he’s definitely worth a look!
I’ve locked him in. Add Cleary, Munster and Calker…… going hard in the halves from the get go b
So he scored better when he didn’t have the kicking duties, but you like that he is getting the kicking duties back?