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Nathan Cleary has been increasingly linked with a Panthers exit in recent months, with rumours from an English Super League move to a rugby defection floated. But according to veteran NRL pundit Andrew Voss, the halfback's next move will almost certainly be for love, following Matildas superstar Mary Fowler to the UK where she plays for powerhouse football club Manchester City. Watch the biggest Aussie sports & the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. Cleary is contracted to the Panthers until the end of 2027 but Voss believes the time is now for the star halfback to capitalise on the pull of his surname and make the move to the northern hemisphere. 'I'll get a little romantic,' Voss said to his co-host on SEN 1170 Breakfast on Tuesday. 'There is no doubt the young man is in love and his love is on the other side of the world and his love is never coming back to Australia for her sporting career because she can't. 'Nathan has won four premierships, Origin, he's a Test player, World Cup; he has achieved all the things you want to do in a career and I'm saying love might win out here. 'I'm not saying playing union but I can see Cleary playing in the northern hemisphere. 'It's obvious they're in love and how long can that relationship be on the other side of the world when there is a solution?' However, there are two major barriers stopping that move. Firstly Cleary still has two years to run on his Panthers deal after the current season. But much like Penrith's decision to let James Fisher-Harris break his contract for family reasons at the end of last year, it would be a possibility the club would grant his wish to leave especially if it was to follow his heart abroad instead of playing for a rival NRL team or code hopping. The second problem is trickier, and that is the issue that Super League players don't earn anywhere near the money of NRL stars. But as rumours circulate that NRL Europe could soon be a reality, Voss believes Cleary could be playing in England come next year. 'If NRL Europe comes into being and I think it will be announced later in the year with grandiose plans,' he said. 'Teams in London and France, they will pick how they want the comp to look. 'I don't know where the money comes from but I think a London marquee signing of Cleary at some stage makes sense. 'Nathan Cleary ticks a massive box, that gives them the headline they want, they become an A-list couple, I'm talking massive picture here.' Voss' comments come after earlier this year former NRL hardman Mark Carroll urged the halfback to follow his heart. 'The great thing about Cleary is he can have his cake and eat it, too. He doesn't have to quit rugby league to be with the love of his life,' Carroll wrote in his weekly column for The Nightly. 'Cleary's won four premierships with Penrith, landed two Clive Churchill medals and played in three winning State of Origin series with NSW. He's represented Australia in five Tests, helping the Kangaroos to a World Cup victory in 2021. 'He will be part of the revived Kangaroo tour at the end of the year, providing he is fit. At 27, the half-back's legacy in the game is ensured. There's not much more for him to prove. 'I'm sure he and Mary have discussed a move and I hope he does take the leap. It would not only be a great love story, but Cleary's move into uncharted rugby league waters would also capture the hearts of fans in two countries.'
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Peter Gelagotis Racing in drive to raise funds for motor neurone disease in month of June
Three-year-old stayer Thunder Zeus would contribute to one of Australian sport's greatest causes if he saluted at Flemington on Saturday. Thunder Zeus will carry the official FightMND silks as part of the Neale Daniher-inspired drive to raise funds for research into motor neurone disease. The King's Birthday weekend is the high point of FightMND's fundraising campaign as celebrities slide into icy water at Monday's AFL game between Collingwood and Melbourne. The Peter Gelagotis stable is doing its bit for the cause with all its runners to carry the FightMND colours during the month of June. Southside Racing and Racing Victoria will donate $1000 for each winner the stable prepares with the yellow and black silks this month. Stable manager Manny Gelagotis said the FightMND cause resonated with him in his capacity as the president of the Moe Lions Football Club. 'We're doing this in conjunction with the Moe Lions where Neale Daniher's son Ben has played for the last four or five years,' Gelagotis said. 'That's how the connection was made and I've got to know the family well.' Gelagotis said the Moe Lions would hold its annual FightMND fundraiser at its game on Saturday while Thunder Zeus hopefully fought out the finish of a three-year-old race over 2000m at Flemington. 'It's my passion to drive it through my two interests in racing and the footy club,' Gelagotis said. 'We've got many people like Peter Daicos, Nathan Buckley, Sam Kekovich and Denis Pagan that have all done videos for us to help raise awareness. 'The big event happens at Ted Summerton (Oval) on Saturday and it's turned into a really big thing because a lot of other leagues don't play on the long weekend so we get heaps of people coming from everywhere. 'Health-permitting, we hope Neale is going to be there but it's a day-to-day thing and it's been so powerful when he has made it in the past.' Thunder Zeus will head to Flemington as a last-start winner of a maiden over 2080m. Gelagotis said the son of Night Of Thunder was an improving young stayer with plenty of potential. 'He was too good for them at Cranbourne and he's getting better all the time,' Gelagotis said. 'He's going really well but it would be great to see the FightMND colours at Flemington to raise awareness with the racing people.'
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Pom smashes iconic Aus record but tracking furore rears ugly head
Earlier this week, English runner William Goodge not only broke the record for the fastest time to run across Australia — he smashed it. The 31-year-old beat Australian Chris Turnbull's previous record by a staggering four days, as he ran from Cottesloe Beach in Perth to Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach in just 35 days. He remarkably completed the 3,952 kilometre journey from west to east 12 days faster than notable Australian Nedd Brockmann did three years ago with roughly 500 people waiting to greet him at the finish line.  Watch the biggest Aussie sports & the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. Goodge, who was once a model and semi-professional rugby player, spent 15 hours a day pounding pavement and ran roughly 110km per day on average to break the record. All the while, his more than 250,000 Instagram followers came along for the journey as they scrolled on their phones. The numbers are simply mind-blowing. It is little wonder the Englishman told he has 'been pretty horizontal' in the days since he completed his epic journey. Officially the fastest human to run across Australia. William Goodge. Congratulations to Will, well done to his team, and thank you to everyone that showed up to support the finish. â�¤ï¸�🇦🇰ðŸ�† — Represent (@representclo) May 19, 2025 But Goodge's success is not being widely celebrated among the ultra-running community. Running such vast distances is largely reliant on self-reporting via the data collected on a GPS watch, and some have accused Goodge of fudging his numbers. Fellow English runner William Cockerell voiced concerns about Goodge's heart rate data when he completed his run across the United States of America two years ago. Goodge ran from Huntington Beach in California to New York in 55 days, making him the fastest Englishman to ever do so. He was 13 days shy of American Pete Kostelnick's record, but Cockerell believed Goodge's heart rate was too low for the extreme distances he was running. Cockerell even went to America to follow Goodge during his run, trying to catch him swapping his official GPS watch with different runners and having a rest. The pair then clashed on the side of a road, which made for a fiery YouTube video. Goodge passionately denies the allegations, simply saying 'we had a tracker on, it was on me at all times' after his Australian record. 'People could come cheer me on or come for a run sometimes,' he added. The accusations come not just from Cockerell, however. Fellow British runner Robert Pope, who grew a massive beard in 2016 and recreated Forrest Gump's run, told British newspaper The Times last month that he doubted Goodge, saying his 'heart rate doesn't make sense'. The ABC reported that suspicions were heightened by Strava data on day two of Goodge's run across Australia when followers noticed that he had covered 400 metres in just 23 seconds - 20 seconds faster than South African Wayde van Niekerk's world record set at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Canadian Running Magazine also published that they had picked up that Goodge's data said he ran at faster than 80km/h on occasions. The anomalies could simply have been transmission errors as he ran through remote areas. While the heart rate concerns could be explained by him running slowly, or the fact often he ran with a face covering may helped. Regardless, Goodge has repeatedly denied the allegations against him. 'I've done everything I've ever said I've done,' Goodge told the Australian Financial Review (AFR) before he set off from Perth. 'But I appreciate that there is a higher burden of proof when you say you're going for an actual record.' With his feet up after the run, Goodge instead chose to focus on the positives. His efforts have raised more than $20,000 for the Cancer Council of Australia as well as thousands of dollars for UK charity Macmillan Cancer Support and the American Cancer Society. Goodge lost his mother from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2018, and her memory was well and truly on his mind as he made his away across Australia. He lay flowers for her when he arrived at Bondi Beach, and the inspiration for his journey was a family holiday as a primary school aged child. 'I've always loved the country. I came for the first time when I was 11 and went all over the place. After that trip, I'd always bug my parents to move,' Goodge said of Australia. 'I wanted to grow up like an Aussie kid outdoors, everything seems super positive and obviously the weather is pretty good here compared to the UK. 'When I'm intrigued by a place, my way of going and looking at it is running across it or doing a big run within it. So, it seemed like a natural next step and one that I really wanted to do.' Family was also physically part of the whole journey as his father was part of the five member crew that supported Goodge in almost any way possible. 'The only things I do for myself are run every step and wipe my own ass,' he said with a laugh. 'They're literally helping with everything from the moment I wake up to when I go to bed.' Their support was essential particularly in the early stages, with the opening stanza out of Perth and dodging road trains and wildlife across the Nullabor proving most challenging. 'The first nine days were kind of like a revolving nightmare that I couldn't get out of,' Goodge said. 'I couldn't sleep at night because I was in so much pain. 'Obviously when you're not sleeping a lot, and you're going out and pushing hard again, it's relentless and it takes your head into some strange places.' Helping him as well was the support of new-found friends Brockmann and fellow Brit Russell Cook, who boasts 1.2 million Instagram followers under the moniker 'Hardest Geezer' after he ran from the southern most point of Africa to the northern most point. 'Nedd Brockmann is a friend of mine. We'd spoke beforehand and we chatted along the way,' Goodge said. 'It's quite hard to find similar people to yourself when you do cross country, literally across a country, not the traditional way.' Brockmann was one of the first people to comment on Goodge's Instagram post announcing he had broken the record, writing 'incredible my man'. 'You deserve it all mate. What a feat of human endurance, thanks for the daily inspiration and reminding us all we can always do more!! King Goodge!' he continued. Australian comedians Matt Ford and Jack Steele from The Inspired Unemployed also leant a hand by sending Goodge and his team some of their Better Beers for the celebrations. Goodge did not shy away from having a beer and a cigarette across the journey for his mental health and as he needed to consume roughly 7000 calories a day to fuel his body. He sometimes took those down moments as a chance to take aim at his vocal critics on social media, however. 'Keep talking motherf******, keep adding fuel to the fire and I'll make it even more unbelievable,' he wrote in one Instagram post. Another Instagram story was captioned: 'And from all of us at the record down under team, to the nay sayers we sincerely say f*** you.' Goodge insists his main motivation is not fighting his opponents, however. He says he will keep taking on these challenges, with the Berlin and New York marathons, as well as a project in Iceland, in his sights for the remainder of the year, because the finish line feeling is like no other. 'It's an unbelievable feeling because you've been out there for more than a month. Especially when you're in the middle of it, you think it's never going to end,' Goodge said. 'It's definitely a big amount of relief and gratitude to those who helped me. That feeling of crossing the line is like no other I can imagine. 'That's the real reason I keep going back to these things. 'It can only be attained through a huge and physical mental output.'
