{"id":763717,"date":"2026-06-27T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763717\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:51:12","slug":"nrl-news-2026-ivan-cleary-13-word-press-conference-after-panthers-loss-vs-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763717\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Ivan Cleary 13-word press conference after Panthers loss vs Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivan Cleary<\/a> was in no mood to talk after Penrith<\/a>\u2019s second-straight defeat, giving just 13 words in an extremely short press conference.<\/p>\n

The four-time premiership-winning coach was visibly frustrated after the Panthers went down 26-12 to the Cowboys<\/a>, who were inspired by veteran Jason Taumalolo\u2019s milestone 300th game<\/a> at home on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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Ivan Cleary speaks to the media after Penrith’s round 17 loss.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

When asked for his thoughts on the game, coach Cleary brushed it off quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have many really, it wasn\u2019t great,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n

Cleary was then asked about Isaiah Papali\u2019i, who left the field in the second half for a head injury assessment after a collision with Taumalolo.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, no he didn\u2019t [pass it],\u201d the Panthers boss said.<\/p>\n

He followed it up replying \u201ccorrect\u201d when a journalist asked if Papali\u2019i would miss the round 18 clash against South Sydney.<\/p>\n

His son and superstar halfback Nathan<\/a> was in a more talkative mood, conceding that Penrith\u2019s struggles with the ball hurt them against North Queensland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just probably lack of concentration, overplaying a little bit as well,\u201d Nathan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was disappointing because I thought once we went down to 12, that\u2019s probably our best period, which is saying a lot. We just lacked a bit of that hard edge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just killing ourselves, trying to force it a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penrith remain four points clear on top of the NRL ladder after the Warriors suffered a dramatic 26-24 loss to fellow contenders the Dolphins<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Cleary was in no mood to talk after Penrith\u2019s second-straight defeat, giving just 13 words in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-763717","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\/763717","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=763717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}