The Manly halfback is 35 and gives away 30 kilos to rivals, but he’s missed just four per cent of games in 14 years.
Daly Cherry-Evans is closer to 36 than 35, and regularly gives away 30 kilos to the back-rowers trying to run him over.
In all, Cherry-Evans has missed just 23 of the 351 NRL games since his Sea Eagles debut in 2011, with nine of those because he was away in Maroons Origin camp. Even when threatened with, Manly risked a three-game ban to successfully fight his charge at the judiciary. “I know I haven’t missed a game and it hasn’t been anything too serious obvious, but that’s not to say I don’t go without injuries.
Smith’s durability – like Cherry-Evans, he only once played less than 19 NRL games in a season – as a fellow 80-something kilo playmaker is one of few that can match the Manly halfback.
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