Premiership within their lifetime

[hindy111]

we can blame that or when he wore a dress and acted like a messiah....in the end he was just a naughty boy.

Did he pass away?

 

[Parra Pride]

I reckon on the surface - 1999, 2001 & 2005 were the 3 golden oppourtunites.

2001 yeah was a choke. But at least you could say Andrew Johns the best of his era played the perfect half.

2005 was a monumental f**k up when you look the sides who played in the GF and that loss basically got Brian Smith sacked.

2001 wasn’t a choke. Newcastle were better than us, they beat us twice that year with our only win coming without Johns I believe. We may have belted everyone else but they had us covered.

 

[T.S Quint]

2001 wasn’t a choke. Newcastle were better than us, they beat us twice that year with our only win coming without Johns I believe. We may have belted everyone else but they had us covered.

In hindsight if you look at the team lists from that grand final, you’d be hard pressed to believe we were favourites.

 

[Stagger eel]

Did he pass away?

not as far as I'm aware..

the last time I saw him we both walked to the train station together after the GF last year, I wouldn't say it was a great experience for both of us at the time.

 

[hindy111]

2001 wasn’t a choke. Newcastle were better than us, they beat us twice that year with our only win coming without Johns I believe. We may have belted everyone else but they had us covered.

Down 24 nil was a choke. In saying that if A.Ryan doesn't drop the ball over the line we win. We just where rattled and thst calms us down.

 

[hindy111]

not as far as I'm aware..

the last time I saw him we both walked to the train station together after the GF last year, I wouldn't say it was a great experience for both of us at the time.

Excellent poster. Hopefully he returns at some point

 

[PARRA_FAN]

I reckon on the surface - 1999, 2001 & 2005 were the 3 golden oppourtunites.

2001 yeah was a choke. But at least you could say Andrew Johns the best of his era played the perfect half.

2005 was a monumental f**k up when you look the sides who played in the GF and that loss basically got Brian Smith sacked.

Yes big opportunies missed there. I mean someone mentioned 1998, defintely an opportunity for a GF berth but who knows how they wouldve gone against a pretty good Broncos team.

1999 I believe had injuries in the end but leading at half time and having all the momentum in that Storm game only to self destruct, that whole trip home was like 1998, so quiet, we were in disbelieve.

Same with 2005, the train trip was full of Parra supporters and we were all silent and shocked. Not only to lose to a team that was thrashed by 50 a fortnight ago, but also not score a point and get no where near the way they had performed all year. If Wagon smashes Bowen, instead of missing the tackle who knows what wouldve happened. Plus losing Hindmarsh to an injury didnt help.

2001 was one of the "What the heck happened" moments. Favourites because they scored over 900 points, lost 4 games all year and had a f/a of about 400. But from the kick off you can see they were not mentally switched on. I dont know if it was Buettner or Hodgson that threw a silly pass in their own half that led to the suss Peden try but their heads werent switched on. They looked so nervous, compared to the Knights who looked so pumped up and didnt make a mistake in that first half. Kennedy and Buderus carved us up the middle.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Yes big opportunies missed there. I mean someone mentioned 1998, defintely an opportunity for a GF berth but who knows how they wouldve gone against a pretty good Broncos team.

1999 I believe had injuries in the end but leading at half time and having all the momentum in that Storm game only to self destruct, that whole trip home was like 1998, so quiet, we were in disbelieve.

Same with 2005, the train trip was full of Parra supporters and we were all silent and shocked. Not only to lose to a team that was thrashed by 50 a fortnight ago, but also not score a point and get no where near the way they had performed all year. If Wagon smashes Bowen, instead of missing the tackle who knows what wouldve happened. Plus losing Hindmarsh to an injury didnt help.

2001 was one of the "What the heck happened" moments. Favourites because they scored over 900 points, lost 4 games all year and had a f/a of about 400. But from the kick off you can see they were not mentally switched on. I dont know if it was Buettner or Hodgson that threw a silly pass in their own half that led to the suss Peden try but their heads werent switched on. They looked so nervous, compared to the Knights who looked so pumped up and didnt make a mistake in that first half. Kennedy and Buderus carved us up the middle.

2005 remains the only game i remember ever leaving early from.

Mum, Nan, Dad had enough with 15-20 mins to go just completely disgusted. So they took me and my younger brother home we were 11 & 9 years old that day early back on the train back to seven hills.

The irony was Dad's company he was in a partnership with was sponsoring the Tigers on the shorts that year so we basically had tickets to go the GF already with the Tigers winning the night before.

Dad & Mum ended up going as it was free tickets but they ended up not pushing for 6 or 7 tickets when Parra weren't playing.

Ironically i had photos with Benji & Scott Prince a few weeks earlier in the sheds of there final regular season round match and got to run out with them that day i got a Tigers 2005 Jersey that got signed by all the players in the sheds after the game which must have been a prize part of Dad's company sponsorship.

I was never to change teams i was always Blue & Gold by then and Parra had won the minor premiership.

But that 2005 Signed Tigers Jersey is still lingering around somewhere how much would it sell for ebay you reckon now.

I should go and find and sell it. Probably be the last ever Tigers premiership jersey haha.

 

[T.S Quint]

Down 24 nil was a choke. In saying that if A.Ryan doesn't drop the ball over the line we win. We just were rattled and thst calms us down.

I think he was held up, not dropped the ball.
I only watched it once though, and it was a long time ago.

 

[King-Gutho94]

I think he was held up, not dropped the ball.
I only watched it once though, and it was a long time ago.

You would only want to watch the last 20 mins of that match.

Just like 2009. When we were storming home and Fui's try. Which Billy Slater and Scam Smith reckon was the largest roar they have ever heard during there careers when that was given a try.

And last year the final 5 mins.

 

[Hindmarshisgod2]

You would only want to watch the last 20 mins of that match.

Just like 2009. When we were storming home and Fui's try. Which Billy Slater and Scam Smith reckon was the largest roar they have ever heard during there careers when that was given a try.

And last year the final 5 mins.

Loudest roar I ever heard was 2001 gf when Brett Hodgson made a half break in the opening minutes....I was mentally already planning on how to get back from homebush to parra leagues to celebrate at that point...

Neks minnit.......

 

[PARRA_FAN]

2005 remains the only game i remember ever leaving early from.

Mum, Nan, Dad had enough with 15-20 mins to go just completely disgusted. So they took me and my younger brother home we were 11 & 9 years old that day early back on the train back to seven hills.

The irony was Dad's company he was in a partnership with was sponsoring the Tigers on the shorts that year so we basically had tickets to go the GF already with the Tigers winning the night before.

Dad & Mum ended up going as it was free tickets but they ended up not pushing for 6 or 7 tickets when Parra weren't playing.

Ironically i had photos with Benji & Scott Prince a few weeks earlier in the sheds of there final regular season round match and got to run out with them that day i got a Tigers 2005 Jersey that got signed by all the players in the sheds after the game which must have been a prize part of Dad's company sponsorship.

I was never to change teams i was always Blue & Gold by then and Parra had won the minor premiership.

But that 2005 Signed Tigers Jersey is still lingering around somewhere how much would it sell for ebay you reckon now.

I should go and find and sell it. Probably be the last ever Tigers premiership jersey haha.

Yeah I went to that GF, I think like most Eels and Dragons fans around that time, we bought a heap of tickets. I couldnt get rid of them all so I decided to go and it was a nice experience, seats werent great and the pre game entertainment was meh, but it was nice seeing Eels win the reserve grade and a lot of diehard Magpies fans behind cheering with emotion

I almost left when Thurston kicked the field goal to get it to 25-0 or something but there was about 1000 Eels fans leaving at the same time so we can had to stick around to avoid any hassles. The crowd was about dead, you could hear a pin drop after the siren sounded.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

You would only want to watch the last 20 mins of that match.

Just like 2009. When we were storming home and Fui's try. Which Billy Slater and Scam Smith reckon was the largest roar they have ever heard during there careers when that was given a try.

And last year the final 5 mins.

When Grothe scored in that GF I reckon it is one of the loudest noises if not the loudest Ive ever heard at Homebush, up there when Fui scored and Hodkinson's try at Origin.

That atmosphere was incredible, so many blue and Gold flags and jersies, booing the Storm everytime Slater or Blair touched the ball.

Even though we lost the GF to the cheats, I didnt feel deflated as much as I did in 2001 and 2022.

Also was the first or second twilight Grand Final??

 

[Parra Pride]

You would only want to watch the last 20 mins of that match.

Just like 2009. When we were storming home and Fui's try. Which Billy Slater and Scam Smith reckon was the largest roar they have ever heard during there careers when that was given a try.

And last year the final 5 mins.

This is our problem, every f**king time we start playing when the game is already gone. The closest chance we gave ourselves was 2009, and even then we needed every last thing to go our way if we were going to storm home late, so of course Slater milked the absolute shit out of a penalty that lead to final nail in our coffin.

 

[TheParraboy]

The 2001 GF was the first to be moved to night time, and at 8pm

I have mentioned this before, our semi finals games were all day time games, as well as our last round match

Knights semi finals matches were all night time, as well as their last round match

That first half in the GF we looked like a deer in headlights, we made uncharacteristic errors. It wasn't the side of the previous 20 weeks. Would playing the GF at 3pm been a different story? How much of a difference mentally , physically, energy , or otherwise did it affect us playing a later time than we normally did in the last month? Probably a sports science / physiologist is the best one to answer that

I was one of the last to leave the stadium. Lot of Parra fans near me left at HT

 

[King-Gutho94]

The 2001 GF was the first to be moved to night time, and at 8pm

I have mentioned this before, our semi finals games were all day time games, as well as our last round match

Knights semi finals matches were all night time, as well as their last round match

That first half in the GF we looked like a deer in headlights, we made uncharacteristic errors. It wasn't the side of the previous 20 weeks. Would playing the GF at 3pm been a different story? How much of a difference mentally , physically, energy , or otherwise did it affect us playing a later time than we normally did in the last month? Probably a sports science / physiologist is the best one to answer that

I was one of the last to leave the stadium. Lot of Parra fans near me left at HT

Would have been nice if Brian didn't send 100 text messages to all the players the night before.

 

[Parra Pride]

Also f**k it would’ve been funny to see a team that had 3/4 of its spine being Mortimer/Robson/Keating winning a premiership. Truly a Bradburyesque squad that one.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

The 2001 GF was the first to be moved to night time, and at 8pm

I have mentioned this before, our semi finals games were all day time games, as well as our last round match

Knights semi finals matches were all night time, as well as their last round match

That first half in the GF we looked like a deer in headlights, we made uncharacteristic errors. It wasn't the side of the previous 20 weeks. Would playing the GF at 3pm been a different story? How much of a difference mentally , physically, energy , or otherwise did it affect us playing a later time than we normally did in the last month? Probably a sports science / physiologist is the best one to answer that

I was one of the last to leave the stadium. Lot of Parra fans near me left at HT

I seem to recall the Preliminary Final against Brisbane they started off poorly, handling errors, poor passing, for a little while I was like "Oh no not again", there were signs of nerves in that game but lucky they regrouped and played it safe. That win was a sense of relief, finally a Grand final appearance after so many PF losses but gee it wasnt a pretty win. Someone told me the players looked so nervous during the week and even at the Grand final breakfast they were so quiet and barely responded, whereas the Knights looked pretty relax, calm enjoying themselves. Perhaps they shouldve prepared themselves better, not worry too much, maybe Smith did a big speech and confused the hell out of them.

That 8pm kick off seemed a lot later, I got there around lunch time to watch the Reserve Grand Final we got beat by the Dragons, then strangly the Jersey Flegg GF was on after, pretty sure Thurston was in that game. There was a pre game entertainment, Jimmy Barnes I think, then nothing for about half hour, I remember sitting going, cmon get on with it.

Most of us preferred the day Grand Final after that experience and I'm sure most of us still want it back.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

This is our problem, every f**king time we start playing when the game is already gone. The closest chance we gave ourselves was 2009, and even then we needed every last thing to go our way if we were going to storm home late, so of course Slater milked the absolute shit out of a penalty that lead to final nail in our coffin.

That decision still angers me, he clearly knocked on, tried to milk it, even worse was the referee's boss trying to defend it but Bill Harrigan was on radio saying it was a poor decision.

 

[Parra Pride]

That decision still angers me, he clearly knocked on, tried to milk it, even worse was the referee's boss trying to defend it but Bill Harrigan was on radio saying it was a poor decision.

I still vividly remember that call, and I will forever what could’ve been if it was called correctly. Would’ve been a nice addition to Slater’s cracking under pressure like in the World Cup too.