But it was his unorthodox goal line drop-out with nine minutes remaining which left the commentators utterly astonished.<\/p>\n
Rather than kicking clear, Cleary instead scuffed his attempt along the floor.<\/p>\n
Watch Cleary\u2019s unique drop kick via the player above<\/p>\n
Incredibly, the ball ended up just centimetres beyond the 10-metre line and narrowly out of play.<\/p>\n
It was unclear whether it was intentional or not, but Fox Sports\u2019 broadcast team were willing to give Cleary the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n
Andrew Voss said: \u201cThat looked like a grubber kick. Oh, and it\u2019s found the line. It\u2019s found the line over the 10. I don\u2019t even know if it looked like a drop kick, to be honest, it happened that fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, how daring is that? He\u2019s hacked it over the sideline. It\u2019s gone over the 10 by 3.1 centimetres.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before fellow commentator Steve Roach added: \u201cDon\u2019t you love it, seeing him try different things all the time. I\u2019ve never seen that before.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Voss replied: \u201cWho does that? Seriously? They lead by 12 and he puts one over the sideline like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019d have to practice it, you\u2019re not just pulling that out on game day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is an incredible moment from Cleary.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Cleary, who is under contract until the end of 2027, now has three tries and 44 conversions for the season.<\/p>\n
But his future remains up in the air after he indicated he will test the open market when he becomes a free agent.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Panthers\u2019 victory moves them to 9-1 for the season \u2014 and they have won each of their last four games.<\/p>\n
Many will expect that impressive run to continue next weekend when they take on a winless Dragons side in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Following the first Origin game, they then host the second-placed Warriors in a top-of-the-table clash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Cleary shook the NRL world with a bizarre and brilliant drop kick during Penrith Panthers\u2019 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-663247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}