Wigan playing like that again beat Rovers by a few scores.
Don't blame Rovers players for celebrating at all last night, they've done brilliant to get to the final. But think how muted Wigan's pre match celebrations were in comparison to Rovers was quite telling. I can see the event overwhelming Rovers and the emotion getting to them. Wigan just know how to win finals.

make your bloody mind up

It's been a familiar pattern whenever a new team has made the GF.
I can't see the pattern being broken this time around either, especially against Wigan.
You never know though, someone has to do it eventually.

Wigan have too much pace.
Just hope it’s a dry night so they can give kr a good pasting.

You been trawling through the posts again. Made long long ago. Teams form can change you know.

As long as the bin dippers get beat next week. I'll be a happy bunny

After watching Wigan destroy Leigh I don't know if it'll be the occasion or Wigan overwhelming us. Quite possibly both lol.
Still I'd rather be in these games than not

I'm not so sure, are Wigan battle hardened? 38-0, 64-0 and 38-0 in their last three games. Not been pushed since you played them a month ago.

Whatever happens, you are right. It's better to be there and lose (even heavily) than to not be there at all. Your players are about to play at Old Trafford whilst Jack Walker for example has already been to Ibiza and worn a gimp costume.

Really enjoyed 1st half Nrl final.
Skill, work rate and speed of the game is just another level.
Would love to see Liam Martin at FC.

Penrith are a juggernaut, greatest club team ever.
I'd take any of their 17.

the top two teams made the final.

win/lose you've had a season to be very proud of.

Quote of the week from above - "youre prepping for a final and our players are donning gimp masks"

I think i just pi$$ed myself.

If you canrt laugh you cry.

thats ok someones got to win but you seem to be a bit irate about it ,its only a game

Disappointing end for both Blore and Watson, probably wish they had signed for us now.

I was at the match last night and Wigan are even more impressive in the flesh…they line up so deep for attacks it’s just unreal..as for French,that was worth my ticket money alone.Everyone around me was saying that Thompson was mom until he went off then Nesemba just went up another level and got mom on the ground.Afterwards I was in a pub in Wigan with the people I’d gone with and got chatting to 3 Leigh fans and the all had different opinions on the players we have got from them.Was all united in saying Asiata is a superb signing and will do a job,2 didn’t rate Hardacker but 1 did..said Chamberlains a squad player,Holmes can’t string 2 games together but the 1 all 3 called was Briscoe….Was good to get a opinion it them

I was at the match last night and Wigan are even more impressive in the flesh…they line up so deep for attacks it’s just unreal..as for French,that was worth my ticket money alone.Everyone around me was saying that Thompson was mom until he went off then Nesemba just went up another level and got mom on the ground.Afterwards I was in a pub in Wigan with the people I’d gone with and got chatting to 3 Leigh fans and the all had different opinions on the players we have got from them.Was all united in saying Asiata is a superb signing and will do a job,2 didn’t rate Hardacker but 1 did..said Chamberlains a squad player,Holmes can’t string 2 games together but the 1 all 3 called was Briscoe….Was good to get a opinion it them

Imagine how good Penrith would be if they had been able to keep all their players (Crichton, Burton, etc.).

Amazing success in a salary cap era.

full of pace and power
sounds a bit like our new team for 2025

French is a fantastic player but that move for his try he has done several times before.
Leigh fans are good and usually have no axe to grind about players leaving.
Asiata apart it shows what a load of crap we have signed from Leigh.
Chamberlain on a 3 year contract is a joke

This is one of those subjective questions with no real answer as we can't pit sides from the past against teams from the present, but it's a discussion we all love to have.

I would pick out three outstanding club sides from the past forty or so years:
Parramatta 1981-83, Wigan 1990-94, Penrith 2021-24.

Each of them were dominant, each were packed full of superstar players, each set a benchmark for others to follow.
Wigan's achievements were slightly skewed due to having a massive financial advantage over everyone which allowed them to cherry pick everyone else's best players thereby weakening their main opposition, but they unquestionably contained some of the finest players of the early nineties.

The great Parramatta side (the only other team apart from Penrith to complete a hat-trick of NSW/NRL victories since the late sixties) came about due to a freakish collection of young players all coming through together (Ella, Grothe, Kenny, Sterling). The bizarre thing about them was that, apart from this period (roughly 76-86 in total), Parramatta have effectively amounted to very little throughout the rest of their history, generally being no more than bit-part players in most seasons.

One of the commentators, at the end of today's game, said that winning four in a row shouldn't be possible in the modern day salary cap sport. Players are also more inclined to switch clubs than they were in years gone by.
Given the context, circumstances and standards of today's NRL, I think today's historic win does probably make Penrith the greatest RL club side of the past fifty years.
Any comparisons with a team pre-1970 (possibly even pre-1980) is largely fatuous as we really are talking about a wholly different sport, certainly a more brutal one!! Teams from the 1960s would have had their own special ways of dealing with someone like Nathan Cleary!!

That's if their beer-bellies could get anywhere near to 'dealing' with him.


Glad you partially agree.

Didn’t take long for 1 of the resident moaners to quote me about what the Leigh fans told me about the lads from leigh….I’ve got Bonend on ignore but I do wish he would just pi££ off and take peg-end with him

I was at the match last night and they are a superb team. Have been a season ticket holder at Penrith since joining their Leagues Club in 2000 when I departed our house near Cronulla and took up residence in the Blue Mountains.

With the loss this season of Crichton and Leniu I thought they could not win this year and actually tipped the Storm to beat them on another RL forum. The last team to beat them in a GF was Melbourne back in 2020 so this was sweet revenge!
They have lost another 3 influential players for next season.

I have recently moved again to the Mid- North coast so have given up my season ticket but will continue to go to all future GF's.

Not sure where this financial advantage comes from? It was a case of speculate to accumulate, everyone could have done what we did, but we were the only club with the bottle to do it.

Shame non of the Championship semi's are been shown on tv this weekend .

I have a suspicion that some clubs didn't lack bottle but money.
It's all a bit before my time though.