Panthers’ Cleary shot

PENRITH chief executive Brian Fletcher has thrown a hand grenade back at Wests Tigers coach Ivan Cleary, questioning if Nathan Cleary would want to join his father at a club “that might not be a chance of winning a comp”.

A week after losing Matt Moylan to Cronulla in a swap for James Maloney, Ivan Cleary this week put more heat on Penrith when he revealed that he and his son had basically come “to the opinion that we’d like to play together” at some stage in the future.

Nathan, 20, has two years to run on his contract but will be a free agent next November.