Party on, dude: DCE is the last survivor of the 1980s
The 1980s gave us so many wonderful things, including MTV, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Crocodile Dundee, Madonna – and Daly Cherry-Evans.
The Manly skipper said his Sea Eagles teammates and friends had gone out of their way to remind him he was the last of a kind in rugby league.
Jesse Browmich was the only other player born in the 1980s, but the Dolphins’ front-rower retired at the end of 2024.
“I don’t know what to make of it all to be honest – I can tell you when you start out in your career, you never dream about becoming the oldest player in the NRL,” Cherry-Evans. who was born on February 20, 1989, told this masthead.
“I know the boys get a good laugh out of it, that’s for sure. So do some of my mates who have sent me messages.
1980s icons: Scott and Charlene, Crocodile Dundee, Daly Cherry-Evans, Madonna and Tab cola. Credit: Marija Ercegovac
“We’ve got a player here, Joey Walsh, he’s a young half coming through – he’s a rugby protégé – but he’s only 18, which means I’m double his age.
“I only lived in the 1980s for one year. Obviously I don’t remember it. I did remember the 1990s. I loved Tina Turner’s Simply The Best.”
When this masthead asked him to complete a 1980s pop quiz, he knew Canberra won the 1989 grand final, but had no idea Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan played Scott and Charlene in Neighbours, and thought a Commodore 64 was a ute. It was a computer.
