{"id":446295,"date":"2025-04-08T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=446295"},"modified":"2025-04-08T23:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:14:18","slug":"cherry-evans-makes-big-origin-call-as-club-future-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=446295","title":{"rendered":"Cherry-Evans makes big Origin call as club future in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/daly-cherry-evans-25gt\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"D\ufeffaly Cherry-Evans\">D\ufeffaly Cherry-Evans<\/a> has reportedly made a call on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-daly-cherry-evans-maroons-halfback-replacement-options-darren-lockyer-wally-lewis-exclusive-20250402-p5lol3.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Origin future\">Origin future<\/a> as the Maroons attempt to wrestle back the shield.<\/p>\n<p>9news and Sydney Morning Herald reporter Michael Chammas revealed on Nine&#x27;s <em>100% Footy<\/em> that Cherry-Evans &quot;won&#x27;t make himself unavailable&quot; \ufefffor the Maroons.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffPhil Gould and Paul Gallen both agreed he was always doing to be available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/athletics\/stawell-gift-2025-handicaps-gout-gout-lachlan-kennedy-jacob-despard-20250408-p5lq71.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gout&#x27;s speed has stunned us, but he&#x27;s about to get a head start<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-reed-mahoney-canterbury-bulldogs-responds-criticism-hooker-press-conference-20250408-p5lq50.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Could have done that better&#x27;: NRL star responds to &#x27;grub&#x27; claim<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-penrith-panthers-losing-streak-billy-slater-comments-exclusive-20250408-p5lq6x.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Why Slater isn&#x27;t ready to write battling Panthers off<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;One hundred per cent, \ufeffno doubt,&quot; they both said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"6d9d3c8b-90bb-45ba-851e-e84350210d49\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6d9d3c8b-90bb-45ba-851e-e84350210d49\" alt=\"Daly Cherry-Evans speaks during a State of Origin media opportunity  at Federation Square on June 25, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett\/Getty Images)\" data-width=\"4548\" data-height=\"2558\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cherry-Evans&#x27; decision will be a relief for coach Billy Slater with the half&#x27;s potential replacement Sam Walker currently out injured. \ufeffTom Dearden, Ben Hunt, Jamal Fogarty and Braydon Trindall would&#x27;ve also been in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>The Manly half rocked the league world \ufeffin March when he announced he was leaving the club.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.9now.com.au\/KDmNCTLBeRb\"><em><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, when quizzed on his Origin future, the 36-year-old admitted the fire was still in the belly to play for Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff&quot;That&#x27;s probably the next thing on my mind,&quot; Cherry-Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When you talk about parts of the game that you love, I mean I don&#x27;t love doing weights and I don&#x27;t love doing cardio, but I love playing State of Origin.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"e0bd1fb6-d6f5-41c1-a7ea-06030bde1087\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/e0bd1fb6-d6f5-41c1-a7ea-06030bde1087\" alt=\"QLD Maroons coach Billy Slater checks in with captain Daly Cherry-Evans following their series loss.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; It&#x27;ll be really hard to say no to playing Origin again this year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>100% Footy is now available as a podcast! Subscribe\/follow via<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/100-footy\/id1613437928__;!!LBk0ZmAmG_H4m2o!4hhwHjabMUBkzJdXouUw83cK0wQHU_cP4LS-eZO0oLWXAo2dckbSNFdM5MTKUq4$\"><em><strong>Apple<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>,<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6AGZ3RWL2VQTMlLYeTCAVI__;!!LBk0ZmAmG_H4m2o!4hhwHjabMUBkzJdXouUw83cK0wQHU_cP4LS-eZO0oLWXAo2dckbSNFdMe2eEM0g$\"><em><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <em><strong>or<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvODhiNTY0ZWEtYTlhNi00NzUxLTkxMGEtYTVkODAwMDE5Mzk2LzRmZDYzMmZhLTg3MWItNGY3NS05ZjdhLWFlNTIwMDY0ZTg0OC9iOWRiNGEyOC1lM2FkLTQyZWItOGI5Mi1hZTUyMDA2NWE0MjAvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M%3d\"><em><strong>Google Podcasts<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just nine days ago, Maroons coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/videos\/nrl\/nrl-news-2025-daly-cherry-evans-future-state-of-origin-billy-slater-comments\/cm8uwm5l700010hmd2671ym20\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Billy Slater spoke on Nine&#x27;s Sunday Footy Show\">Billy Slater spoke on Nine&#x27;s Sunday Footy Show<\/a> that he was unsure whether Cherry-Evans would continue.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff&quot;I would be surprised if he didn&#x27;t play,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>D\ufeffaly Cherry-Evans has reportedly made a call on his Origin future as the Maroons attempt to wrestle back the shield. 9news and Sydney Morning Herald <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=446295\" title=\"Cherry-Evans makes big Origin call as club future in doubt\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":445000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446299,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446295\/revisions\/446299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/445000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}