After a 10-week injury lay-off, Nathan Cleary and his Panthers teammates needed just three simple plays to set up the NRL’s best match-winner for the most unlikely play.
After 10 weeks watching from his father’s coach’s box, Nathan Cleary and Penrith needed just three simple plays to send their 16 rivals an inter-office memo.How else could the pack chasing Penrith’s bid for a fourth-straight premiership - a feat not achieved since the all-conquering St George side of the 50s and 60s - construe Cleary’s latest clutch miracle?simply shouldn’t have happened.
“On the third tackle I was thinking there is no way I’m going to have a shot,” Cleary said on Sunday afternoon. So that’s two of the best players in the NRL taken out of Penrith’s line-up, only for their cut-price replacements to step up and bring Cleary’s right boot into play. “Because it’s a kick-off set, ideally you’d love to get down there for a field-goal shot, but it’s sort of just sticking to our structure and playing the set out,” Eisenhuth explained of a typical golden point approach.
“We didn’t plan to kick that, but I think just off the back of the fast play-the-ball, me and Nath just had a quick word to each other and just said ‘why not’, because he’s just got that in him,” Kenny said.was a hamstring that had kept him out for the past 10 weeks and a 45-metre shot at goal.
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