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| Date | October 4, 2009 Victory Melbourne Storm 23-16 | ||||||||||||
| Stadium | ANZ Stadium | ||||||||||||
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| Referee | Tony Archer, Shayne Hayne | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 82,538 | ||||||||||||
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The 2009 NRL Grand Final is a rugby league football game scheduled to be played on October 4, 2009 at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney.fgdthe Melbourne Storm who are competing in their 4th grand final in a row. [1] It will also be the first Grand Final to feature the two referee system. Shayne Hayne and Tony Archer have the honour of being the first referees to jointly officiate an NRL Grand Final.[2]
Background
The Melbourne Storm finished the regular season in 4th position with 14 wins, nine losses and one draw. As the minor premiers of the last three seasons and premiers in 2007, some commentators believed that the Storm were below their best in 2009 and doubted they would make a 4th straight grand final.[3] But in the first week of the finals series they easily accounted for the defending premiers, the Manly Sea Eagles, with a 40 – 12 victory. They then defeated the 2006 premiers, the Brisbane Broncos, 40 – 10 to qualify for the grand final.[4][5] The Melbourne Storm will be the first side to make four consecutive grand finals since the Eels did so in 1981-84.[6] If the Melbourne Storm win it would make them one of the most dominant rugby league teams in the recent history.
After a dreadful first half of the season and languishing in 14th position, the Parramatta Eels won 9 of their last 12 games to finish 8th and just make the finals. In the first three weeks of the finals series they defeated the top three teams of the home and away season - minor premiers the St George Illawarra Dragons, the Gold Coast Titans, and arch-rivals the Canterbury Bulldogs. The last time the Eels made the grand final was 2001 where they were defeated by the Newcastle Knights and the last time they won the premiership was in 1986. They are the first team to come from 8th position to make the NRL Grand Final and should they win they will be the first team ever ranked below 6th to win the premiership.[7]. Canterbury's appearance in the 1998 grand final came from 9th position, but under a different finals system.
Parramatta Eels fullback and Dally M medalist Jarryd Hayne was in danger of missing the match after being placed on report for sliding in with his knees out to stop a try and connecting with the head of Bulldog's winger Bryson Goodwin. The incident was reviewed by the NRL Match Review Panel on September 27 and Hayne received a grade one sentence, allowing him to play. This will set up one of the great grand final match-ups as Hayne will be playing opposite current Melbourne and Australian fullback and 2008 Golden Boot Winner Billy Slater.[8].
Paramatta captain Nathan Cayless was under an injury cloud after he strained his hamstring in the preliminary final. He passed an intense fitness test on the day before the game to take his place in the grand final. It was a great boost to the Eels to have now all three 2001 NRL Grand Final Veterans playing.[9]
Melbourne five-eighth Brett Finch has a chance to break his premiership drought by defeating the side that terminated his contract in April 2009 when coach Daniel Anderson said he was not wanted at the Parramatta club. [10]
The two sides faced each other once in the regular season in round 19. The Eels won 24-22 at Parramatta Stadium on July 20.
Teams
 Melbourne Storm
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Position |  Parramatta Eels
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|---|---|---|
| Billy Slater | Fullback | Jarryd Hayne |
| Steve Turner | Wing | Luke Burt |
| Will Chambers | Centre | Krisnan Inu |
| Greg Inglis | Centre | Joel Reddy |
| Dane Nielsen | Wing | Eric Grothe |
| Brett Finch | Five-Eight | Daniel Mortimer |
| Cooper Cronk | Halfback | Jeff Robson |
| Aiden Tolman | Prop | Nathan Cayless (c) |
| Cameron Smith (c) | Hooker | Matthew Keating |
| Brett White | Prop | Fuifui Moimoi |
| Adam Blair | Second Row | Nathan Hindmarsh |
| Ryan Hoffman | Second Row | Ben Smith |
| Dallas Johnson | Lock | Todd Lowrie |
| Ryan Hinchcliffe | Interchange | Kevin Kingston |
| Jeff Lima | Interchange | Feleti Mateo |
| Ryan Tandy | Interchange | Joe Galuvao |
| Scott Anderson | Interchange | Tim Mannah |
| Craig Bellamy | Coach | Daniel Anderson |
NYC Teams
Melbourne Storm: 1. Gareth Widdop 2. Sam Joe 3. Justin O’Neill 4. Pita Maile 5. Matt Duffie 6. Dane Chisholm 7. Luke Kelly (c) 8. Pulou Vaituutuu 9. James Woolford 10. Jesse Bromwich 11. Rob Rochow 12. Theo Stuart 13. Billy Rogers
Interchange: 14. Jai Jones-Weigold 15. Jordan McLean 16. Kevin Proctor 17. Fred Makimare 18. Jake Hawkins 19. Blake Leary 20. Josh Jerome 21. James Barker
Wests Tigers: 1. Jake Mullaney 2. Joel Jackson 3. Joel Wisbey 4. Jake Clarke 5. Sama Sauvao 6. Robert Lui 7. Darren Nicholls (c) 8. Andrew Fifita 9. Chris Corby 10. Aaron Woods 11. Simon Dwyer 12. Jason Schirnack 13. Matt Hyland
Interchange 14. Jay Florimo 15. Monikura Tikinau 16. David Fifita 17. Rhys Curran 18. Leivaha Pulu
NSW Cup Teams
Fullback 1.Brent Crisp
Wing 2.Heka Nanai
Centre 3.Tim Winitana
Centre 4.Matt Utai
Wing 5.Nick Taylor
Five-Eighth 6.Peewee Moke
Halfback 7.Ben Barba
Front Row 8.Charles Leaneo
Hooker 9.Nathan Smith
Front Row 10.Fred Briggs
2nd Row 11.Danny Williams
2nd Row 12.[[Brad Morrin
Lock 13.Lee Te Maari
Interchange 14.John Kite
15.Jake Foster
17.[[Trent Cutler
COACH- Terry Lamb
Balmain 1
Sean Meaney
2
Billy Callaway
3
Lee Bennett (c)
4
Matthew Ryan
5
Junior Roqica
6
Gavin Cowan
7
Josh Lewis
8
Al Schirnack
9
Ryan Carr
10
David Gower
11
Dean Webster
12
Willie Mataka
13
Jared Farlow
INTERCHANGE
14
Fletcher Hawkins
15 Eloni Vunakece
16
Brett Lane
17
Steve Moses
18
Ben Falcone
19
Sioelo Makaui
20
Liam Roach
21 Brett Peacock
23 Matthew Parata
Schedule
The 2009 NRL Grand Final will feature pre-match entertainment by the Grammy award-winning Australian rock band Wolfmother while Irish band The Script will perform at halftime. 2008 Australian Idol winner Wes Carr will perform a tribute to the elite club of players who have played 300 Premiership games, while the game's retiring players are farewelled. Prior to kick-off the Child Flight helicopter and members of the game’s ‘300 Club’ will deliver the Telstra Premiership Trophy to ANZ Stadium.[11]
- 11:45am Gates Open
- 12:10pm NSWRL Cup Grand Final Kick Off
- 2:10pm Toyota Cup Grand Final Kick Off
- 4:10pm World boxing champions Danny Green and Roy Jones Jr presented to crowd
- 4:40pm Telstra Child Flight chopper arrives with Telstra Premiership Trophy
- 4:45pm 300 Club and Retiring Players tribute with Wes Carr Performance
- 4:50pm Wolfmother performance
- 5:10pm Australian National Anthem performed by Mark Vincent
- 5:15pm NRL Grand Final Kick-Off
- 6:05pm The Script halftime performance
- 6:55pm NRL Premiership Grand Final Presentation
Audience
The NRL Grand Final is one of the most popular sporting events of Australasia, and the 2009 NRL grand final is set to be played before a sold-out crowd of 83,500 with millions more watching around Australia and the rest of the world.
Telecast Details
- Australia - Nine Network (live from 5pm AEST with coverage beginning at 12pm). A replay of the game will be played on Fox Sports at 8pm AEST on the same night.
- New Zealand - Sky Sports (live from 6:30pm NZ time)
- Asia-Pacific - Australia Network (includes China, Hong Kong/Macau, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Phillipines, Palau, Malaysia, Cambodia, Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Brunei, Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Tuvalu, East Timor, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Micronesia, Kiribati)
- Indian subcontinent - Australia Network (includes India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan)
- Middle East - Australia Network and ShowSports
- United States and Canada - Spike TV (from 11am ET/PT)(also shown throughout all the countries in The Americas region.)
- United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland - ESPN UK (live from 7am)
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