Nathan Cleary will require surgery on both feet, after his father Ivan revealed the superstar halfback had been playing on a broken right foot before suffering a compound fracture of his left ankle.
In a gruesome aftermath to the Panthers' 22-14 preliminary-final loss to Newcastle, the Panthers exited with Dylan Edwards playing through a ruptured PCL, Isaah Yeo a ruptured pec and Blaize Talagi off with an Achilles rupture.