Jim Dolan: Australian Sports Correspondent on Daly Cherry-Evans future, upcoming NRL games, Super Rugby, and cricket's Sheffield Shield final

Daly Cherry-Evans has officially declined Manly's contract extension offer, again confirming he'll depart at the end of the NRL league season.

A new two-year deal was tabled to the halfback after he suggested leaving or retiring post-2025.

Cherry-Evans will exit as the Sea Eagles' most-capped player after 15 years' service.

Australia Correspondent Jim Dolan joined D'Arcy Waldegrave to discuss all things sport from over the ditch. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Waldegrave from News Talk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The dreaded Jim Dolan to join the program now, I
don't know where the dreaded came from. Maybe because it's
a combination of J and D. Dreaded to Jim Dolan,
Let's get things underway in Australia Land, it's all about
d c in the wonderful wide word of rugby. Lee.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, he's dreaded at a few places at the moment too, Darcy,
Good morning. The Dally Cherry Evans drama about where he's
going to be playing this year after fifteen seasons at Many.
It's been on the back page of the newspapers all
week and dominating sport talk shows on TV. Now we
get to see how it's affecting his teammates. They're off

(00:51):
to a solid but not well beating start to the
season at Manley. They're home to the winless Paramatta tomorrow.
Jerry Evans, who the ever of the professional? Does it
wine effect his efforts for Manley for the rest of
the year. Skipper Jake Trevoyevich, Well, he says, he hopes
it doesn't affect the team, which doesn't sound like that.

(01:12):
They haven't been not talking about it, so we'll see
how when they run out tomorrow. Because the Eels are
still desperate to get off the mark, and mainly at home,
we really want to get off the good start. We
do have some other teams this week that aren't interested
in Daly Cherry Evans. I think it's down to three
teams where he could be and they have the Bulldogs,

(01:33):
the Roosters or the Dolphins, so hopefully the saga won't
dry drag on for too long. Tonight we get to
see the Sharks at home against the Bulldogs. They both
made impressive starts of the season, so this will be
a good pass mark for one of those teams. And
I'm glad the Warriors have got to buy in next
round because Sunday night in Sydney would have the real
potential to throw the rest of their week into chaos

(01:55):
to prepare for another match. So yeah, they had get
a chance to go all out and then put a
feed up for a week.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's not made a bad start, but they didn't get
beaten by the Wives by twenty points. Just same, just same, Sorry, Manly,
that's the way things roll, let's quickly move away from
Rubber League and go now to Rubber Union. The Reds
milestone up tonight. How long is he going to be
around this?

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, it's been off mixed out so far. You see
what the Brumby's winning. And then Max Jorgenson now as
they have stands today for the Warrior Cars. After that,
we need superlatives about the loss they had to the Hurricanes,
narrow trashing one of those somewhere between.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
They were dealt worth and dealt too.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, the coach said they're going to fly straight home
and back into training because that's the only way to
recover from and I quote one of those nights in Wellington.
The Reds. On the other hand, Ryan Smith says he's
really pumped to be named Captain of Queensland to play
the Western Force to night because he never thought he'd
get a single game for Queensland in a Super Rugby,

(03:05):
let alone play more than fifty and captain side. It's
bounded by slugfest tonight because you saw the Broncos game
last night. They are on the same surface and the
same weather front continues to move down the East coast
of Australia. It's going to be fairly sloppy, but the
Reds have got plenty of play for this season and
Les Kiss just as his nose ahead. Perhaps the next

(03:28):
Wallabies gaps, so yes, expecting a good performance from them tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
More super rugby tonight for New Zealand as well as
the Sayers take on we won a Pacific but away
from New Zealand responses because I can't help myself as
a New Zealand radio show. Let's get domestic cricket because
our season's come into a close over the next few days.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
So's yours yeah, and went sept for an intrigue finish
the Sheffield Shield. Finally in Adelaide, they were the Wooden
Spooner for a couple of years out of Australia. This
year they finished on top to host the final and
got off to a fantastic start on Day one where
they bowled Queensland out for just ninety five. Queensland's bowlers

(04:10):
have had to help them post four hundred and forty
five in the second innings. Jack Wilderman, batting at eight
with a vital century number nine marks deck and he
made a stubborn half century. So they now have South
Australia with two days to play, needing two hundred and
seventy runs to win on a pitch where the new
ball has done all the damage in this match and

(04:33):
the intrigue is two hundred and thirty nine is the
record winning chase in a Sheffield Shield final. The records
will have to fall today splash tomorrow. I think it'll
probably be more likely today, but that's only if South
Australia is to avoid heartbreak of another year without a
trophy in the cabinet. So spent a thrilling contest so far.

(04:54):
The big guns for Queensland Kawaja and a lot of
skug Mae didn't do much with the bat and Marnus
is pretty cleen to give himself a bowl of the
first innings Anny bowl Queensland to victory on the final day.
It could just be one of the weird things to
happen in cricket.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Let's just wrap it up. You mentioned a couple of
rock stars to Queensland whose South Australia got to wave
the whirlow.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well they've had. Brendan Doggett taken eleven wickets for the match.
He's a forgotten fast bowler Jake Lehman, son of Darren Lehman.
He's batting at seven. He made a very very vital
century to South Australia in the first innings. He's made
probably four or five centuries in the last couple of matches,
batting down the order for South Australia to get them

(05:37):
in the final. And of course Alex Carey is in
superb form with that and gloves, so he'll be a
key player for them today too.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Rock and roll Jim Dolan, the Dreaded. Looking forward to
talking to you again, same time next week. You look
after yourself, my friend.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I can't wait to see what description I get next week.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
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