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It propelled the Kiwi side to the top of the NRL ladder by a solitary point on points differential with one round remaining, locking them into a home qualifying final and making a Grand Final match-up against Penrith even more plausible.<\/p>\n
Cleary had four try assists (the most on debut on record, since 1999), two linebreak assists and a forced dropout, surpassing Tim Smith (2005).<\/p>\n
J. Cleary scores 3 assists in 1st half | 00:44<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so grateful for my family and that they were able to make it,\u201d he told Fox League post-game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also just cool to play for my dad\u2019s old club – it was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jett Cleary hugs dad Ivan and brother Nathan after the Warriors won in his debut NRL game.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Cleary will switch to the Panthers and play under his dad and alongside his brother next year, explaining he was \u201csuper nervous\u201d in the build-up before being reminded by his teammates to simply play his role.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just everything I\u2019ve dreamed it to be. It was so much fun – I have such a good group of boys to play with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis team\u2019s unreal, forward pack\u2019s unreal. it was just so cool, it was awesome to be out here at Mt Smart as well, packed house. It was mad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was super nervous this morning. Throughout the day I got more and more comfortable, and the boys made me feel super comfortable. They just told me to go out there and do my job, so that\u2019s all I had to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warriors outgun Newcastle in Auckland | 03:22<\/p>\n
Warriors coach Andrew Webster was full of praise for Cleary\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was awesome. He\u2019s great,\u201d Webster said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought (Greg) Marzhew was trying to run at him. You could hear them yelling his name over the comms (and) trying to run at him and he stood up to it. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the boys stuck up for him at the right time which is awesome and he came up with a couple of big plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t playing that great and they pressured him on last play and he threw the ball back to Wayde (Egan) and then threw it to Jakey [Jacob Laban].<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a really good play and I think he got our night going, so he was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cOne of Jett\u2019s biggest strengths is how tough he is and how much he competes. You\u2019re not going to get under his skin or worry him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really proud of the way the boys stuck up for him and had his back and made sure that they just couldn\u2019t come and do that to our halfback.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew that he\u2019s got that in him. I knew that\u2019s what he\u2019s always had, that toughness and not being scared of getting roughed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Webby: ‘Thought Jett was Awesome!’ | 10:46<\/p>\n
Cleary\u2019s captain Mitch Barnett declared the youngster \u201clooked like he belonged\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a young half, and trust me I\u2019m nowhere near a half but they just want to tackle well and kick well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he defended really well. Like Webby [Andrew Webster] said, Marzhew\u2019s not easy to handle and even that back-rower\u2019s causing a bit of havoc on his edges and Jett held his gloves up. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s ticked the first one off and he\u2019ll only get better each time he takes the field now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jett Cleary declared his NRL debut everything he dreamed it to be, as he helped push the Warriors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-873907","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\/873907","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=873907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}