The 2024 version has all of the hallmarks of being an all time traditional NRL grand ultimate.
The Storm and Panthers have been the benchmark crew all season, and plenty of have tipped the pair can be the grand ultimate protagonists all season.
The Panthers have the prospect to do what no crew has ever achieved within the trendy period and win 4 straight premierships of their fifth-straight grand ultimate.
Billy Slater believes the 2020 loss will give the Panthers “big motivation”.
“There was discuss a bit from the Panthers … they discovered a lesson about taking part in finals soccer (in 2020) and it is put them in good stead during the last three years, they usually’ve additionally mentioned they have been bullied a bit bit in that sport,” Slater mentioned on 9’s The Billy Slater Podcast.
Led by their star halves, the Storm and Panthers have been the benchmark groups all season. Getty/9
“So there’s big motivation for Penrith to go on the market and never simply win a fourth straight, however the very last thing that stopped them, taught them an enormous lesson. Now they get to play them once more.”
They’ve met 10 occasions for the reason that 2020 grand ultimate – which was the final time they met in a ultimate – and the Panthers have received six of them.
Maybe crucially for the Storm, they’ve received each conferences this season in tight affairs – 8-Zero in spherical one and 24-22 in spherical 24.
“I feel this will probably be one of many greats, undoubtedly,” Andrew Johns mentioned on Huge World of Sports activities’ Immortal Conduct.
“I feel there are going to be plenty of storylines, and it does not occur that usually that that two greatest groups truly play one another.
“I feel again to the early to mid-90s, if we had a Broncos-Canberra grand ultimate, they’d’ve been epics. However this will probably be a traditional.
“Nice climate, quick observe, there’s been a number of barbs thrown. I prefer it.”
