Combo to test Blues
QUEENSLAND halfback legend Allan Langer has warned NSW haven’t seen the best of a Daly Cherry-Evans-Cameron Munster scrumbase alliance that he says is destined for Origin greatness.
Throughout the decades the Maroons have produced a series of champion halves pairings including the famous Langer-Wally Lewis union and more recently the Johnathan Thurston-Cooper Cronk strike force.
Now Langer, Queensland’s greatest halfback, believes Munster and Cherry-Evans are in the formative stages of building a lethal understanding that can subject NSW to more years of Origin misery.
Munster and Cherry-Evans have won consecutive games as Queensland halves, franking last year’s 18-12 defeat of NSW in Game Three with their 18-14 dismantling of the Blues in Origin I on Wednesday night.
Langer says he already sees parallels between the Munster-DCE combination and some of Queensland’s finest playmaking partners-in-crime.
“They are going be even more dominant at this level,”
said Langer, the 34-game schemer who formidably teamed with ‘The King’ Lewis before his famous partnership with Kevin Walters.
“I see those parallels between me and him (Lewis), even me and Kevvie.
“They just work so well together and bring different styles. Cameron is the damaging ball-runner and Daly is the guy who has the cool head to steer the side around.
“The more they play together, the better they will get.”
While Cherry-Evans recently turned 30, such is his dedication and professionalism, he believes he can emulate the likes of Thurston and Cronk by playing beyond his 35th birthday.