Penrith Panthers coach Ivan Cleary is sweating on the return of a long list of top flight stars but isn’t expecting any of them to be back in the next two weeks, despite a bye round coming up this weekend.

“I don’t know if anyone will be back after the rep week. But in there somewhere, you’re talking Segeyaro, Soward, Wallace, Taylor, to name a few. Kite maybe even. Don’t know which weeks, but we’ve got a few troops coming back. So that’ll be good,” Cleary said after his team’s win over the Sharks.

“We’ve got a couple of byes coming up. I think we play four games in seven or eight weeks. Somewhere around there we’ll start getting some blokes back, which will obviously be needed.”