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Daly Cherry-Evans to miss Broncos game, but Watmough set to play

WEDNESDAY’S night’s 100th State of Origin game has taken it’s toll on the Sea Eagles with Daly Cherry-Evans out of Sunday’s game with the Broncos.

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 28: . Daly Cherry-Evans of the Maroons runs the ball during game one of the State of Origin series between the Queensland Maroons and the New South Wales Blues at Suncorp Stadium on May 28, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 28: . Daly Cherry-Evans of the Maroons runs the ball during game one of the State of Origin series between the Queensland Maroons and the New South Wales Blues at Suncorp Stadium on May 28, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

WEDNESDAY’S night’s 100th State of Origin game has taken it’s toll on the Sea Eagles with halfback Daly Cherry-Evans out of Sunday’s game with the Broncos.

But the club remains confident that backrower Anthony Watmough will play in the Suncorp Stadium showdown.

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Cherry-Evans has a knee injury and will be replaced by Jack Littlejohn who did a good deputising for the injured Kieran Foran.

“He said it happened in the last minute of the game,” said Sea Eagles coach Geoff Toovey.

Toovey hopes he will be right for the Sea Eagles next game against the Bulldogs.

Anthony Watmough in Origin game one.
Anthony Watmough in Origin game one.

Watmough has a ruptured bicep and has made it clear that he wants to play.

“We will assess him tomorrow but we are pretty confident he will be OK,” Toovey said last night.

“Rugby league is a tough game played by tough men.

“He is a tough character and unless he is really incapacitated he should be able to play.”

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