Panthers lock in premiership hero
Paul Alamoti’s gamble to move to Penrith has paid off big time with the young gun rewarded with a new deal on the back of a breakout year.
Paul Alamoti’s gamble to move to Penrith has paid off big time with the young gun rewarded with a new deal on the back of a breakout year.
A Super League boss has made a staggering call about four-time premiership winner Nathan Cleary amid his UK links.
Ivan Cleary has revealed he hasn’t spoken to Phil Gould – the man who sacked him – in five years. Cleary opens up like never before.
After the premiership-winning Panthers opted to abandon playing the prestigious World Club Challenge, superstar halfback Nathan Cleary has offered a way to salvage the fixture against English powerhouse Wigan Warriors.
With just two inductees, Penrith boss Brian Fletcher has questioned whether Greg Alexander and Royce Simmons’ absence from the NRL Hall of Fame is an oversight.
Seeing Nathan Cleary on the training field is just what the Panthers want heading into the finals, but even he was overshadowed on Monday.
Raiders captain Elliott Whitehead hasn’t been able to hold back his emotions after going out a winner in his final match in Canberra.
Ivan Cleary boldly declared Jarome Luai a $1 million risk as an unproved chief playmaker but the Penrith boss has conceded it was the wrong call.
Players get injured in nearly every NRL game, but when it’s the coach’s son, refocusing can be difficult even for a premiership winner.
NRL clubs hold a powerful lever in a looming showdown with the ARL Commission over plans for them to share in a $60 million licence fee for Papua New Guinea to enter the league.
It’s a curse which has claimed three victims in three years – but two teams seem immune to the grand final hangover. See every grand finalist’s ladder position in the five years that followed defeat.
The race to replace Nathan Cleary in the halves is down to two after one of Penrith’s key men confirmed he wouldn’t be switching positions.
The crowd at Penrith fell silent on Thursday night when Nathan Cleary injured his shoulder but the scan results have provided a positive outlook.
The Panthers’ hopes of a fourth-straight premiership have suffered a blow with superstar halfback Nathan Cleary injured on a night where the Storm were gifted a crucial late penalty in dubious circumstances.
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