{"id":335478,"date":"2023-10-01T20:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=335478"},"modified":"2023-10-01T23:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T23:02:06","slug":"get-us-out-of-here-clearys-hilarious-6am-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=335478","title":{"rendered":"'Get us out of here': Cleary's hilarious 6am interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\ufefff anyone deserved to enjoy a few beers on Sunday night, it was Penrith<\/a> coach Ivan Cleary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old had just steered the Panthers to their third premiership in three years, coming from 16 points down to beat the Broncos 26-24<\/a> in an instant classic at Accor Stadium.<\/p>\n

But what the coach didn't expect was to front up for a live television interview at 6am as he was trying to leave the celebrations.<\/p>\n

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Cleary was "sneaking out the back door" when Nine's Today<\/em> managed to grab him for an interview, and the coach looked a little worse for wear.<\/p>\n

\"Panthers<\/p>\n

\ufeffHe took the opportunity to have a crack at Today host Karl Stefanovic and his home state of Queensland.<\/p>\n

"Queenslanders kind of fail at the end a lot of the time, so we knew that they (the Broncos) would falter," Cleary smiled.<\/p>\n

"That's a gee-up (Karl) and you know it.<\/p>\n

"Nah, halfway through the second half I was like 'shit, get us out of here', we were in all sorts. I've got no idea how we managed to pull that back.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

\"2023<\/p>\n

Cleary was asked about his son, Panthers halfback Nathan, who won his second Clive Churchill Medal and scored the winning try late in the grand final.<\/p>\n

"I actually said to him yesterday that if I'd married someone else he would have been a pretty shit player," the coach joked.<\/p>\n

"I've got to thank his mum for everything that he's got, because it's certainly not from me.<\/p>\n

"You know what, he owes me, too. I've driven him to that many things, I've made lunches for him and done all this stuff.<\/p>\n

"But he's actually now making my life easy, so I love you Nathan.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

Stefanovic asked Cleary if he had "had a thousand beers"\ufeff, but the coach wasn't too keen to divulge what the celebrations had entailed.<\/p>\n

\"Cleary's<\/p>\n

He did, though, pay tribute to Panthers fans and the entire community of Sydney's western suburb.<\/p>\n

"Couldn't be better, honestly. I feel pretty good about life. It was an incredible game, I still can't believe we actually won the game," Cleary said.<\/p>\n

"Our community is everything to us, and to come back and see how excited everyone was, the look on everyone's faces, how happy it made them feel… I can't explain how good that makes us feel.\ufeff"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\ufefff anyone deserved to enjoy a few beers on Sunday night, it was Penrith coach Ivan Cleary. The 52-year-old had just steered the Panthers to […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335480,"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\/335478"}],"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=335478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335483,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335478\/revisions\/335483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/335480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}