Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n‘Could be losing both Cleary’s!’ | 00:42<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a huge ask for Peter Wallace. It is like batting after Bradman, given what Ivan Cleary has done and I just think it is a massive ask and Nathan Cleary will come to the end of his career and if he leaves I think it will be the domino effect, so I think Walace has got his work cut out for him.\u201d <\/p>\n
Anasta pointed out that Cleary junior may look to go elsewhere in the future now that his partnership with his dad is coming to an end. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve always been a partnership,\u201d Anasta said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been a partnership for a long time. They\u2019ve had a lot of success together, so Nathan\u2019s next move is a critical one for Penrith or for someone else.\u201d <\/p>\n
Wallace could have the toughest challenge in the NRL in 2028, if he takes over from arguably the greatest coach of the NRL era, with his squad potentially decimated by departures and no Nathan Cleary. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s massive for Penrith,\u201d Read said. <\/p>\n
Cleary set for 2027 Panthers exit | 02:33<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s huge. If you\u2019re Peter Wallace and you\u2019re taking over that job in 2028 you want Nathan Cleary there because your job becomes so much more difficult if Nathan Cleary isn\u2019t in your playing ranks because it leaves a gigantic hole. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf Peter Wallace has Nathan Cleary there he starts on the front foot. If he hasn\u2019t got him his job becomes almost insurmountable.\u201d <\/p>\n
The timing of Cleary\u2019s decision to announce he will leave 18 months out was designed to give the players clarity for the future, but Anasta warned it has the potential to backfire. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey were hoping that maybe the decision by Ivan would help those players that are off contract November 1, but really the decision about Nathan is probably more important for those players whether they stay there or not,\u201d Anasta said. <\/p>\n
‘Better than being sacked!’ | 00:50<\/p>\n
Broncos legend Gorden Tallis agreed Nathan Cleary is the primary focus for the Panthers now that Ivan is leaving. <\/p>\n
\u201cNow absolutely, I think that\u2019s the biggest decision that the club makes,\u201d Tallis said of Cleary junior\u2019s contract call. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think Isaaah Yeo might be at the end of it. He might have maybe one more year. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hearing Liam Martin might be on the move To\u2019o might be on the move, so Nathan Cleary becomes probably the club\u2019s most important signing moving forward.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, Read warned the Panthers will lose a number of players to the riches of PNG, but they can\u2019t afford for one of them to be Cleary. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think some of those players will go, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about that,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI imagine Brian To\u2019o will go. It would not shock me if To\u2019o, Liam Martin and Mitch Kenny goes. I think they are going to lose players. They know that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Cleary\u2019s departure after the 2027 season could see the start of the decline for the Panthers dynasty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,18194,118613,30195,7622,322546,322543,26513,17343,322545,2105,5330,5098,4746,4605,761,762,673,158,677,322548,4598,33860,203750,50264,322549,322547,85,322544,45710,670,28056],"class_list":["post-668039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-braith-anasta","tag-broncos-legend","tag-cameron-spencer","tag-canterbury-bulldogs","tag-club-scrambles","tag-coaching-stint","tag-contract-call","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-equalisation-era","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-head-coach","tag-ivan-cleary","tag-mark-st-john","tag-mitch-kenny","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-party-opportunities","tag-penrith-panthers","tag-peter-badel","tag-peter-wallace","tag-player-exodus","tag-players-clarity","tag-season-tax","tag-sports","tag-star-squad","tag-succession-plan","tag-sydney","tag-team-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668039","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=668039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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