1998 - Knights vs Broncos, the unified competition would have been great to start with the two defending premiers meeting in the big dance. The Knights flamed out in the finals, although the star studded Donkeys team was always going to be hard to topple either way. Instead the 1 v 9 grand final played out how you would expect 1 v 9 to play out.
2005 - Tigers vs Eels, maybe for more personal reasons, but playing a team you ran 50 through in 3 weeks earlier was a little bit anticlimactic. We finished 4th and easily accounted for teams 5, 3 and 2, so coming up against the minor premiers in the grand final was a big one. Considering we didn’t beat them from about 2003 until about 2010, this would have been the chance to do so. I think combining the form we were in, with Brian Smiths overthinking nature for a big game we would have seen them off.