2024 GF | PREMIERS - Penrith 14-6 Melbourne @ Accor

[DIOGENES]

No offence, but I wouldn't rule out the Roosters of 1935-37. In that 3 year period, they won 3 premierships, and did so by only losing 1 match in those 3 seasons (admittedly, a season was shorter back then).

And there were 9 teams with the furtherest away at Canterbury which joined in 1935. In 1937 Country beat City in both matches
So in 1935-7 Easts won the inner Sydney competition which was not even the strongest in NSW.

 

[soc123_au]

No offence, but I wouldn't rule out the Roosters of 1935-37. In that 3 year period, they won 3 premierships, and did so by only losing 1 match in those 3 seasons (admittedly, a season was shorter back then).

Highlight vid links or it didn't happen...

 

[footy75]

Congrats Penrith.
What they have done is amazing. Doubt we ever see it again.

 

[Munky]

At what point does the media start questioning Bellamy's coaching in big games?

In the last three finals against Penrith the Storm have scored sixteen points. Averaging less than a converted try!

2021 and 2024 his side were the best point scorers in the league.

He's had two generational hookers and the entire attack pivots around them. Opposition teams know this and the good ones make the hooker make tackles.

Flanno did a number on Smith in 2016 while Penrith battered Grant for eighty minutes. If the riff still had Spencer there would be a chalk outline on the turf surrounded by police tape.

Every single person with a remote interest in the NRL knew the Penrith pack would go all in for the first fifteen minutes. They bashed the shit out of Parra's pack in 2022 which had much better players than the plod the Storm fielded. Importantly Ivan benched Api for those fifteen minutes.

While Harry is the captain he should never have started. They needed him with fresh legs against the Penrith reserve middles yet he could barely move by the second half.

 

[OVP]

Just wanted to congratulate Penrith and their fans. Brilliant team you have there and the coaching setup is first class. Well done.

 

[yobbo84]

Lots of talk about how the past 8 years have been dominated by 3 teams...

One thing forgotten about St George's 11-in-a-row is that Souths won 5 of the 6 premierships preceding it, and 4 of the 5 premierships following it.

From 1949 to 1971 (23 seasons!), either Souths or St George (or both) were premiers or runners up.

In that 23 year period, St George won 12 premierships, Souths 9, Wests 1 and Balmain 1.

Basically imagine 15 more seasons of only Penrith or Melbourne winning....

 

[soc123_au]

Lots of talk about how the past 8 years have been dominated by 3 teams...

One thing forgotten about St George's 11-in-a-row is that Souths won 5 of the 6 premierships preceding it, and 4 of the 5 premierships following it.

From 1949 to 1971 (23 seasons!), either Souths or St George (or both) were premiers or runners up.

In that 23 year period, St George won 12 premierships, Souths 9, Wests 1 and Balmain 1.

Basically imagine 15 more seasons of only Penrith or Melbourne winning....

Pretty crazy that they did that, then have only won 4 more between them in the following 54 years. Just goes to prove you have to enjoy it while it lasts.

 

[Wb1234]

Martin’s GF legend grows as secret, season-long injury hell revealed

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[Iamback]

And there were 9 teams with the furtherest away at Canterbury which joined in 1935. In 1937 Country beat City in both matches
So in 1935-7 Easts won the inner Sydney competition which was not even the strongest in NSW.

That is the thing lost in this debate.

Pre 1980's was all Sydney comp

 

[Pjf04b]

No offence, but I wouldn't rule out the Roosters of 1935-37. In that 3 year period, they won 3 premierships, and did so by only losing 1 match in those 3 seasons (admittedly, a season was shorter back then).

And there was no GFs.

 

[chrisD]

How many sudden death matches in a row did that St George team win? We are at 9.

 

[Pjf04b]

They had a streak of 10 finals wins during the reign. There was a finals system whereby if you won th major semi there was no GF.

 

[Marshall_magic]

Surely if they don’t know anything about league they think he’s a f**king clown. If they know something about league then they know he is a f**king clown.

That is true, even if they don’t know anything about league they still wouldn’t leave Cook at centre in a must win origin game for 5 minutes let alone 75 minutes.

 

[Stinkfinger]

Lots of talk about how the past 8 years have been dominated by 3 teams...

One thing forgotten about St George's 11-in-a-row is that Souths won 5 of the 6 premierships preceding it, and 4 of the 5 premierships following it.

From 1949 to 1971 (23 seasons!), either Souths or St George (or both) were premiers or runners up.

In that 23 year period, St George won 12 premierships, Souths 9, Wests 1 and Balmain 1.

Basically imagine 15 more seasons of only Penrith or Melbourne winning....

Almost perfectly aligned with the period of Menzies. Harold Holt took over just when the game started to change. A period of conservatism many still pine for, but a period of stagnation in Rugby League, which was then not all that much different to Union. Big crowds at the SCG but nowhere else, and little changed at all until the St George reign ended, then the change was breathtaking. This era also marked the end of Great Britain's competitiveness. They won in 1970 and that was it.

 

[Nutz]

Liam Martin can really turn it up a level when he wants. Terrible hair cut but gives incredible effort.

I love the hair, sort of typifies the type of guy he is...a loose canon who doesn't care what people think about him. He just lives for competing and putting in for his mates.
The game needs characters like him.

 

[DIOGENES]

I love the hair, sort of typifies the type of guy he is...a loose canon who doesn't care what people think about him. He just lives for competing and putting in for his mates.
The game needs characters like him.

I have heard the term "crazy eyes" used

 

[Stinkfinger]

What Penrith have achieved is remarkable and obviously unprecedented in the salary cap era. Trying to say they are better than the Dragon's of the 11 in a row era, the subsequent Rabbits of the late 60s/early 70s, the Eels of the early 80s and then the Dogs of war who basically had 2 test level forward packs is great conversation with no definitive answer given different rules, players being semi professional, and the at times thuggery that was allowed.

They stand alongside those sides. Neither superior or inferior.