Manly captain Daly Cherry-Evans has dismissed concerns his club's next coach will inherit a fractured squad as they prepare for life after Des Hasler. Currently on tour with the Kangaroos in England, Cherry-Evans awoke to the news in Manchester on Thursday that Hasler's second coming at Manly had come to an end. But Cherry-Evans gave short shrift to the idea that the incoming coach's first task would be to build bridges in a divided team. "I don't think that is fair," he said. "That's an assessment made from the outside. "We would've loved to have won eight footy games at the end of the season, but we just couldn't. "When you're losing, it allows for comments like that to be made. We just couldn't get out of that rut." "I guess the playing group can be a little bit concerned about the coach's new direction," he said. "This isn't the first time that an NRL team has got a new coach. "I'm pretty sure we'll all be looking forward to getting in there and rectifying what was a pretty poor year last year." "If he (Seibold) was to be the coach it's helpful that I've already met him and have a relationship with him," he said. "But I'm not sure if the club has moved down that path." "It was great to get the first win out of the way, but there's certainly a lot of improvement for not just myself but the whole team," he added.
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