{"id":915259,"date":"2026-10-04T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915259\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:44:15","slug":"nrl-news-2026-nathan-cleary-has-second-leg-surgery-posts-to-instagram-to-miss-penrith-panthers-games-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915259\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026, Nathan Cleary has second leg surgery, posts to Instagram, to miss Penrith Panthers games in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penrith<\/a> superstar Nathan Cleary<\/a> might miss the start of the 2027 NRL<\/a> season after a second operation in recent days.<\/p>\n

The champion halfback suffered a grisly compound fracture and dislocation of his left left and ankle<\/a> during last week\u2019s preliminary final loss to Newcastle.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Cleary now has both legs in a cast.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

He was rushed to hospital and underwent emergency surgery on that leg.<\/p>\n

But he was already carrying a right foot fracture into the game<\/a>, and has now gone under the knife to have that repaired as well.<\/p>\n

He posted a photo to Instagram on Saturday while lying in a hospital bed watching the Prime Minister\u2019s XIII games.<\/p>\n

His left leg is in a moon boot, while his right leg is now also in a thick cast.<\/p>\n

Panthers Group CEO Andrew Hill revealed to 2GB\u2019s Continuous Call Team that Cleary might be able to play football again until after next season has started.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe surgeon was very happy,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe report was as good as we could have expected. He is at home with mum and dad, who are looking after him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good question (when he will be back) because who knows these days… what used to take three months (to heal) is now three weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe indication from the surgeon is, everything going to plan, round one to round four we are expecting him to be back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleary will miss Australia\u2019s World Cup campaign later this month.<\/p>\n

He accepted his maiden Dally M Medal on Wednesday night<\/a> and gave a speech from the couch at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penrith superstar Nathan Cleary might miss the start of the 2027 NRL season after a second operation in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-915259","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\/915259","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=915259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}