{"id":282217,"date":"2023-03-31T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=282217"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:01:18","slug":"cult-hero-got-in-first-to-swerve-panthers-sledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=282217","title":{"rendered":"Cult hero 'got in first' to swerve Panther's sledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zac Hosking took just one game with his new club Penrith<\/a> to equal his dad's tryscoring record – this weekend he is determined to beat him.<\/p>\n

David 'The Mule' Hosking was something of a cult hero for Manly<\/a> and Souths<\/a> in the 1980s and '90s.<\/p>\n

But scoring tries wasn't one of the Mule's strengths – he managed just one in 78 top grade games.<\/p>\n

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So both father and son had a good laugh when Zac crossed the line in his Panthers debut last weekend to draw level with the old man.<\/p>\n

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"I was going to give him some cheek but he beat me to it," Zac told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"When I got off the field there was already a text geeing me up about matching him.<\/p>\n

"Now I'd love to cross the line again to really rub it in."<\/p>\n

Hosking's fine debut was one of the few highlights in the Panthers' 17-16 loss to the Eels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lanky forward, signed from Brisbane over the off season, ran the ball strongly and was rewarded with that<\/em> try.<\/p>\n

"We were a bit off our game and Parra were pretty hot – I would have loved to win my first game but not to be," Hosking said.<\/p>\n

"It was a real fast, intense game. People warned me the western derby would be hard and it's probably the toughest game I've played in my life.<\/p>\n

"There is so much talent in this team, I'm confident we can bounce back and I'm just grateful I was able to keep my spot – these guys are a pleasure to play with."<\/p>\n

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Zac Hosking took just one game with his new club Penrith to equal his dad's tryscoring record – this weekend he is determined to beat […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282219,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282217\/revisions\/282219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}