Queensland skipper Daly Cherry-Evans has revealed his abdomen dropped and he felt “awful” after seeing membership teammate Tom Trbojevic depart the sector at Suncorp Stadium.
The NSW star reeled out of a sort out on Maroons fullback Reece Walsh within the first three minutes of Game II and shortly left the sector with a coach.
It was later confirmed the 26-year-old had suffered a pec harm and regardless of being on reverse sides within the Origin enviornment, Cherry-Evans was clearly upset to see a detailed buddy injured.
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“He hasn’t got his scan yet, so it doesn’t sound great and straight away my heart went out to him,” Cherry-Evans stated.
“I felt awful watching him walk off the field, I really did.
“We can only cross our fingers and hope it’s not too bad, but if it is we have just got to get around him and support him.
“There’s going to be a lot of people having an opinion because it is Tom Trbojevic, but I hope that we can separate Tom Trbojevic the footballer to Tom Trbojevic the person.
“Because he is going to need some support at the moment and I think we need to be careful with it, we need to look after him.”
Trbojevic’s health has been a relentless level of debate main into the Origin collection, having suffered a hamstring harm in pre-season.
The 2021 Dally M Medallist has had a horror string of blows lately, having additionally been dominated out for almost all of the 2022 season with a shoulder harm.
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Add in one other shoulder harm which dominated him out of the 2020 collection and a five-week sideline stint for a hamstring tear in 2021 — luck hasn’t been on Trbojevic’s aspect.
Cherry-Evans defined that seeing gamers undergo accidents is the “hardest part” of aggressive sport, particularly when Trbojevic is essential to Manly’s premiership cost.
The gun halfback additionally stated that his membership teammate was “disappointed” and revealed he “went and found him straight away” after the ultimate whistle was blown in Game II.
“It is (the hardest part of Origin), no doubt it is. Sport and injuries, they are always the hardest part to wrap your head around it,” Cherry-Evans stated.
“Even your biggest enemies out there you don’t ever wish for them to be injured, you never do so let alone when it is your teammate and someone you care about.
“It’s hard to watch, it really is. Like I said, it is really important we show Tom some respect here and see what happens in the scan and go from the results in that.”
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