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Grand finalists in the NRL vs AFL for the last 21 Years....

jargan83

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the last 20 odd years the only side not to play in a Grand Final are the Titans?
 

Timmah

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the last 20 odd years the only side not to play in a Grand Final are the Titans?
Brisbane 2000 2006 2015
Canberra 2019
Canterbury 2004 2012 2014
Cronulla 2016
GC Titans NONE since admitted in 2007
Manly 2007 2008 2011 2013
Melbourne 2006 2007 2008 2009 2012 2016 2017 2018
Newcastle 2001
North Qld 2005 2015 2017
Parramatta 2001 2009
Penrith 2003
SGI Dragons 2010
South Sydney 2014
Syd Roosters 2000 2002 2003 2004 2010 2013 2018 2019
Warriors 2002 2011
Wests Tigers 2005
 

adamkungl

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Grand Final Finalists

1999 - Storm
2000 - Roosters
2002 - Roosters
2003 - Roosters
2004 - Roosters
2006 - Storm
2007 - Storm
2008 - Storm
2009 - Storm
2010 - Roosters
2012 - Storm
2013 - Roosters
2016 - Storm
2017 - Storm
2018 - Storm & Roosters
2019 - Roosters

21 seasons.
Both clubs combined have made the grand final 17 times.Compare this to the AFL


Premiership Winners
Year
Premiership Team Runner-Up
2019 Richmond GWS

2018 West Coast Collingwood
2017 Richmond Adelaide
2016 Western Bulldogs Sydney Swans
2015 Hawthorn West Coast
2014 Hawthorn Sydney Swans
2013 Hawthorn Fremantle Dockers
2012 Sydney Swans Hawthorn
2011 Geelong Collingwood
2010 Collingwood St Kilda
2009 Geelong St Kilda
2008 Hawthorn Geelong
2007 Geelong Port Adelaide
2006 West Coast Sydney Swans
2005 Sydney Swans West Coast
2004 Port Adelaide Brisbane Lions
2003 Brisbane Lions Collingwood
2002 Brisbane Lions Collingwood
2001 Brisbane Lions Essendon
2000 Essendon Melbourne
1999 North Melbourne Carlton

Clearly the AFL Model is a much Fairer model.....


What a wonderfully diverse comp.
I look forward to the diversity of the next 21 seasons as well.

P.S Thanks Gregstar for supplying the info.

The comparison with the AFL is kind of irrelevant imo.

Point is that in the NRL 2 teams have occupied 17 of the last 21 Grand Finals.

2 out of 16 teams!

Something smells...

15 of 16 NRL teams have featured in Grand Finals in this time period you absolute peanuts.
 

Perth Red

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Brisbane 2000 2006 2015
Canberra 2019
Canterbury 2004 2012 2014
Cronulla 2016
GC Titans NONE since admitted in 2007
Manly 2007 2008 2011 2013
Melbourne 2006 2007 2008 2009 2012 2016 2017 2018
Newcastle 2001
North Qld 2005 2015 2017
Parramatta 2001 2009
Penrith 2003
SGI Dragons 2010
South Sydney 2014
Syd Roosters 2000 2002 2003 2004 2010 2013 2018 2019
Warriors 2002 2011
Wests Tigers 2005

Interesting seeing it like this. You'd have to say Manly and NQ punching above their weight whilst Souths, Dragons and Eels not doing as well as you'd expect for clubs of their size. Warriors remain the enigma of NRL!
 

King hit

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Lol, dynasties are the norm, not the exception.

50s/60s dragons won 11 premierships in a row. Following that souffs win four in five years. The 70s see Manly win four premierships, with dragons getting two in three years and the Roosters going back to back. Along comes the 80s when Parramatta and Canterbury each win four premierships. Then Brisbane win 5 between 1992 and 2000.

Yet it's only now that people are walking away because of a couple of teams dominating? Lol
Souths also won 5 out of 7 grand finals before St George’s 11 straight started.
 

King hit

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All of those achievements were pre-salary cap.

A salary cap which clearly either doesn't work or is being rorted.

Take your pick...
So St George’s 11 straight can’t be counted because it’s in a pre salary cap era? EPL domination can’t be counted since there is no salary cap
 

Perth Red

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Would be nice to see Raiders v someone other than Roosters or Storm and win it this year. Or by some miracle see the Warriors win one! Sadly Titans still look a very long way from reaching a GF.
 

King hit

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Would be nice to see Raiders v someone other than Roosters or Storm and win it this year. Or by some miracle see the Warriors win one! Sadly Titans still look a very long way from reaching a GF.
This decade was pretty successful in that regard. 3 teams won their first premiership and some made their first grand final in years.
 

TheDalek079

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All of those achievements were pre-salary cap.

A salary cap which clearly either doesn't work or is being rorted.

Take your pick...


The Salary cap isn't there to create an equal competition. It's there to stop clubs from bankrupting themselves chasing premiership glory. The hope that it will create an even comp is just a bonus
 

Perth Red

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The Salary cap isn't there to create an equal competition. It's there to stop clubs from bankrupting themselves chasing premiership glory. The hope that it will create an even comp is just a bonus

We all know this inconvenient truth but the NRL does like t portray it as some sort of equalizer.
 

gerg

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It's quite a few years ago now but the NRL used to boast about being the most evenly contested sporting competition in the world and the claim was largely based on the introduction of the salary cap.
 

Mr Angry

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So this proves that Melbourne Storm was the team of not one but two decades

what champs!!!
Without producing a single quality junior.

Victorians are in general shyte at sport, great at watching it, shyte at doing it, hence they play thier own game.

It is quite the effort.

The very moment they play something that is not VFL they struggle and produce every 20 years or so, some one decent.

All VFL players are failures.
 

Rod McClusky

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Without producing a single quality junior.

Victorians are in general shyte at sport, great at watching it, shyte at doing it, hence they play thier own game.

It is quite the effort.

The very moment they play something that is not VFL they struggle and produce every 20 years or so, some one decent.

All VFL players are failures.
Still the Storm number 1
 
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