Two-time premiership coach Ivan Cleary has revealed he didn’t think he was the right man to lead the Penrith Panthers after his first season back at the club.
Cleary has had a remarkable career in rugby league, playing 186 first grade games for the Manly Sea Eagles, North Sydney Bears, Sydney Roosters and New Zealand Warriors.
But it has been as a coach that he has made his biggest impact on the game.
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Cleary has spent the best part of the last 17 years of his career as a first-grade rugby league coach and the 2021 premiership win made him the first coach to have coached more than 250 games to win a premiership — having had 370 games.
Speaking on the Get the Edge podcast with Kayden Knowles, Cleary revealed he doubted whether he could be the man to get his side over the line.
Cleary had been coaching the Wests Tigers but jumped at t...
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