The Bye Round With James Graham
Ivan Cleary's BOMBSHELL Panthers Exit... Could Nathan Be Next To Go? Luke Metcalf's Future & Magic Round Preview
13 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What does Ivan Cleary's departure mean for the Panthers?
Charlie, I'm a bit nervous to ask you this question, but I'm going to anyway. Have you heard of the five Ps? Now, please treat this ad with respect.
What, people, place, person? No, I don't know what the five P's are. It couldn't be proper preparation prevents poor performance, could it, Jimmy?
You're spot on, Charlie. I thought you were going to go somewhere in the gutter with that one, knowing you as I do. But that is exactly what the Labricks app does. You can check your last five performances from each team and each player, which is all available for you there on the Labricks app.
It helped me just on the weekend, Jimmy, when I saw Tolu Kula had scored in every one of his last five matches and I whacked him in my multi. And guess what he did, Jimmy?
He scored again, didn't he? Sure did. We can all remember a day, Charlie, when this was so difficult. You've got your Lab Brooks app open on one page. You've got your Internet Explorer on the other. You're looking through previous results, going through previous try scorers, looking at all the records. Well... That has gone.
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Chapter 2: How does Luke Metcalf's future impact the NRL landscape?
Convenience and the Ladbrokes app all in the one place, all for you to check previous performances. It is absolutely a sensational feature.
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That's right, Jimmy. It's that time of year again.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Nathan Cleary potentially leaving the Panthers?
No, not the EFS, but the pre-EFS. That's the pre-end of financial year sale. It certainly is, Jimmy, and it's just as good as the end of financial year sale. But guess what? You don't have to wait for EFS. You can have it now.
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Chapter 4: What are the key points in the Origin selections for Game 1?
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Hello and welcome everybody to another edition of the Buy Ram podcast. Today, I mean, I'm joined by Charlie White. I've got a little... Little quote on the value of experience.
Chapter 5: What can we expect from the Magic Round this year?
Nice of you to put this quote here. The only source of knowledge is experience by Albert Einstein.
Yeah, just a little timely reminder to you that experience counts for something.
I would say Albert Einstein, a bit controversial.
Yeah, a little bit. He's not as good as everyone thinks he is. I don't know, he did a lot. Anyway, we've got bigger, more pressing priorities to get stuck into, Charlie.
Chapter 6: How are the Panthers planning for the future after Cleary?
Out of seemingly nowhere, I mean, it's easy to look back and connect a few dots. Isaiah Yosin, he's definitely going to go to market. But Coach Cleary, press conference, 2 o'clock, announces he's going and Peter Wallace will take the reins at the end of his current deal, 2027. This is not good for the rest of the comp in the short term.
yeah, this just feels like it's going to be the Panthers load up these next two years and just try to go bang, bang, win another two titles.
Chapter 7: What are the latest updates on team strategies for the upcoming matches?
First of all, Ivan Cleary, we just finished watching his press. We literally just watched it. He is such an incredible leader. You can just tell when he talks the way he can explain things and the way he considers the whole group and everything. He said in that press conference that ā He felt as a leader, it was time for him to move on. He's going to pursue other opportunities.
And it does sound a little bit like it's about creating more of a work-life balance. I did get the feel of that from hearing him talk. But wow, what a man, what a coach.
Chapter 8: What are the biggest storylines heading into the Magic Round?
Like, it's such a shame for the NRL that he's decided to move on. It sounds like he might even go down a corporate angle for himself moving forward. But, yeah, what a legend he is, Jimmy.
Yeah, well, a funny thing that you can take from the press conference, it was almost like he was pitching for another job in a sort of advisory role, wasn't it? He was like, oh, well, hang on a minute, did we ā Did we speak about that? He looked at the chairman about it. We'll still figure out the final details after that.
Basically, the final details meaning the financial compensation for that. But we can talk about that privately, maybe, chairman. Kind of got forgot that he was in a press conference. Yeah, he did. It was almost like he forgot he was in a press conference. But, no, look, like he said, today's not the day for congratulations and all that, but... Like, one of the best coaches ever.
Is he the best coach ever? Well, you look at him, he's outachieved what Bellamy and Robinson have done at their respective teams in terms of premierships won. Premierships? take that, even with that, he's redefined what it means to be great, to be amazing, to be the best of the best.
When the Roosters went back to back in 2018, 2019, it had been such a long time since anybody achieved that feat, and they did it, and they were being lauded as arguably the best NRL team of the NRL era.
ever and then along come the Penrith Panthers and just again reimagine what it mean what it mean to be the best what it mean to be great like they doubled it like two like three off the three peak and think about some of those seasons that they've had and it's not over yet it is not over yet by any stretch this year and next year they are primed to win it and
Do you know what I thought was brilliant, Jimmy, as well today is they took all the speculation out of what's next by bringing Peter Wallace up there and announcing him at the same time. That gets rid of everyone coming out and being like, oh, what's this going to happen? Could Andrew Webster go there from the Warriors? Could Kevin Serrato leave?
Yeah, the ex-Pammer Flinks. There's the guy who's gone to Perth, the ā Ben Gardner. Ben Gardner, yeah.
It just creates this clear pathway and it just has pure clarity over the situation and takes so much outside noise away from it. And it helps those November 1 guys as well.
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