NRL grand final - Wikipedia NRL grand final NRL Grand Final The 2006 NRL Grand Final at Stadium Australia Locale Sydney, New South Wales Teams First meeting 1908 Latest meeting 2018 Next meeting 2019 Broadcasters Nine Network Stadiums ANZ Stadium Statistics Meetings total 110 The NRL Grand Final, which determines the Australian rugby league football season 's premiers, is one of Australia 's major sporting events and one of the largest attended club championship events in the world. Since 1999 it has been contested at Sydney 's Stadium Australia, which was the primary athletics venue for the 2000 Olympic Games. The first year it was held at Stadium Australia, the National Rugby League grand final broke the record for attendance at an Australian rugby league game, with 107,999 people attending. The grand final had traditionally been played on Sunday after the pubs closed, the following year saw the game shifted to an evening start. From 2008, a compromise was reached between official broadcaster Nine Network 's preferred starting time of 7 pm and the traditional starting time of 3 pm, with the grand final beginning at 5 pm AEDT. In 2013 the evening start resumed, the match commencing at 7 : 15 pm. Each year the NRL Grand Final Breakfast, a function that is attended by both teams, hundreds of guests and screened live on Australian television is held during the week before the game. However In 2015 the breakfast was cancelled The game itself is usually preceded by an opening ceremony featuring entertainment and the singing of the national anthem by well - known Australasian and international musical acts. After the pre-game entertainment it is traditional for the Provan - Summons Trophy, the NRL 's official premiership trophy, to be delivered to the field by an Australian Army helicopter shortly before kick off. At the conclusion of the grand final there is a presentation ceremony where the winning team are awarded premiership rings. The player judged to be the man - of - the - match by the Australian national team selectors is awarded the prestigious Clive Churchill Medal and the Prime Minister of Australia is typically on - hand to hand the Provan - Summons Trophy to the winning captain. In 2010 the Government of New South Wales secured the grand final for Stadium Australia until 2022 for $45 million. Contents 1 History 2 Stadiums 3 Qualification for World Club Series 4 Trophy and awards 4.1 Provan - Summons Trophy 4.2 Clive Churchill Medal 4.3 Premiership rings 4.4 Prize money 5 Results 5.1 Winners 5.2 Kickoff times 6 Notable grand finals 7 Audience 8 Entertainment 9 See also 10 References 11 External links History See also : Grand final First grade rugby league in NSW began in 1908, the first premiership deciding game was played at the Royal Agricultural Society Showground, with Souths defeating Easts 14 - 12. From 1912 to 1925, no finals system was in place, however in 1916, 1922, 1923 and 1924, a match was played as a tiebreaker to decide the season 's premiership winner. From 1926 to 1953, finals were played under the Argus system, which produced a deciding game in two slightly differing ways. All of these deciding games are now deemed to be grand finals, whether they were referred to as such at the time or not. From 1954 to the present, using a variety of systems, the deciding match has been explicitly termed a grand final, and no distinction is made between grand finals played under the auspices of the various governing bodies. Stadiums 2006 NRL Grand Final The NRL grand final is held in Sydney since it has the most clubs in the NRL and the current venue for the grand final, Stadium Australia is the second highest capacity stadium in Australia, after the Melbourne Cricket Ground. City Stadium Years Sydney Sydney Football Stadium 1988 - 1998 Sydney Stadium Australia 1999 -- present Attendances Year City Stadium Attendance 1999 Sydney Stadium Australia 107,999 Qualification for world club Series Main article : World Club Series The winners of the grand final qualify to play the winners of the Super League Grand Final in the World Club Challenge. The runners up qualify to play the Super League minor premiership winners in the second game of the World Club Series. Trophy and awards Provan - Summons Trophy The Provan - Summons Trophy is the NRL 's main prize, awarded to the team that wins the premiership. Its sculptured design is similar to the Winfield Cup trophy, which was introduced for the 1982 NSWRFL season. It is a three - dimensional cast of a famous photo called The Gladiators, which depicts a mud - soaked Norm Provan of St. George and Arthur Summons of Western Suburbs embracing after the 1963 NSWRFL season 's grand final. It was not officially named the Provan - Summons Trophy until 2013, the 50th anniversary of the 1963 grand final. The trophy is awarded following each grand final to the captain of the winning club. Clive Churchill Medal Main article : Clive Churchill Medal The Clive Churchill Medal is the award given to the player judged to be man - of - the - match in the National Rugby League 's annual grand final. The award was created to honour Clive Churchill, one of the greatest rugby league players in Australian history, following his death in 1985. A prestigious honour in the NRL, The medal 's recipient is chosen by the selectors of the Australian national team and announced and awarded to the player judged best and fairest on the ground at every post-grand final ceremony. The Clive Churchill Medal has been awarded ever since the 1986 NSWRL season when its first recipient was Parramatta 's Peter Sterling. The only two players to have won the award more than once are Canberra 's Bradley Clyde ( 1989 and 1991 ) and Melbourne Storm 's Billy Slater ( 2009 and 2017 ). In 2010, the Melbourne Storm were stripped of the 2007 and 2009 premierships due to salary cap breaches exposed by the NRL, however the Clive Churchill Medallists from those years still continue to be recognised. Premiership rings The NRL present premiership rings for the players and coach of grand final winning sides. After the 2004 NRL Grand Final which was won by the Bulldogs, one of their players, Johnathan Thurston gave his premiership ring to teammate Steve Price who missed the decider due to injury. The Melbourne Storm were stripped of their premierships in 2007 and 2009, but the players involved in those premierships were still allowed to keep their premiership rings. In 2014 NRL premiership ring was worth $8000 made by Zed N Zed Jewellery. The NRL Women 's Premiership Premiership rings for the 2018 NRL Women 's Premiership Grand Final where made by Affinity Diamonds Prize money Prize money is awarded to the victorious club. However the amount is probably not reflective of the magnitude of participating in the event. It is often assumed simply that the winner of the premiership typically experiences an increase in revenue through increases in membership and merchandise sales. Results See also : List of NRL Grand finals Season Winners Score Runners up Attendance Clive Churchill Medal 1998 Brisbane Broncos 38 -- 12 Canterbury Bulldogs 40,857 Gorden Tallis 1999 Melbourne Storm 20 -- 18 St. George - Illawarra Dragons 107,999 Brett Kimmorley 2000 Brisbane Broncos 14 -- 6 Sydney Roosters 94,277 Darren Lockyer 2001 Newcastle Knights 30 -- 24 Parramatta Eels 90,414 Andrew Johns 2002 Sydney Roosters 30 -- 8 New Zealand Warriors 80,130 Craig Fitzgibbon 2003 Penrith Panthers 18 -- 6 Sydney Roosters 81,166 Luke Priddis Bulldogs RLFC 16 -- 13 Sydney Roosters 82,127 Willie Mason 2005 Wests Tigers 30 -- 16 North Queensland Cowboys 82,453 Scott Prince 2006 Brisbane Broncos 15 -- 8 Melbourne Storm 79,609 Shaun Berrigan 2007 * Melbourne Storm 34 -- 8 Manly - Warringah Sea Eagles 81,392 Greg Inglis 2008 Manly - Warringah Sea Eagles 40 -- 0 Melbourne Storm 80,388 Brent Kite 2009 * Melbourne Storm 23 -- 16 Parramatta Eels 82,538 Billy Slater St. George - Illawarra Dragons 32 -- 8 Sydney Roosters 82,334 Darius Boyd 2011 Manly - Warringah Sea Eagles 24 -- 10 New Zealand Warriors 81,988 Glenn Stewart 2012 Melbourne Storm 14 -- 4 Canterbury - Bankstown Bulldogs 82,976 Cooper Cronk 2013 Sydney Roosters 26 -- 18 Manly - Warringah Sea Eagles 81,491 Daly Cherry - Evans 2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs 30 -- 6 Canterbury - Bankstown Bulldogs 83,833 Sam Burgess 2015 North Queensland Cowboys 17 -- 16 Brisbane Broncos 82,758 Johnathan Thurston 2016 Cronulla - Sutherland Sharks 14 -- 12 Melbourne Storm 83,625 Luke Lewis 2017 Melbourne Storm 34 -- 6 North Queensland Cowboys 79,722 Billy Slater 2018 Sydney Roosters 21 -- 6 Melbourne Storm 82,688 Luke Keary Winners Club Wins Winning years Brisbane Broncos 1998, 2000, 2006 Melbourne Storm 3 * 1999, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2017 Sydney Roosters 2002, 2013, 2018 Manly Sea Eagles 2008, 2011 5 Newcastle Knights 2001 6 Penrith Panthers 2003 7 Canterbury Bulldogs 8 Wests Tigers 2005 9 St George Illawarra Dragons 10 South Sydney Rabbitohs 2014 11 North Queensland Cowboys 2015 12 Cronulla - Sutherland Sharks 2016 Wins in 2007 and 2009 were subsequently annulled Kickoff times Time Years 3pm 1908 - 2000 5pm 2008 - 2012 7pm 1997 *, 2002 - 2007, 2013 - present 8pm 2001 The 1997 Super League grand final was a night time match * Notable grand finals 1909 - South Sydney win the premiership by forfeit over Balmain. There was an agreement that both sides would forfeit the match, however Souths showed up, kicked off to an imaginary opponent, scored a try and were declared premiers. 1956 - St. George beat Balmain to claim the first of a world record 11 straight premierships. 1963 - St. George beat Western Suburbs 8 - 3 in a match famous for the iconic ' Gladiators ' photo of Norm Provan and Arthur Summons covered in mud. It is also notable for a controversial try scored by Dragons winger Johnny King. Wests players tackled him and believed him to be held, however the referee rules play on. 1965 - A then record crowd of 78,056 packed into the Sydney Cricket Ground to see St. George captain Norm Provan play his last NSWRFL game. It was also St. George 's 10th straight premiership. 1966 - St. George win their 11th straight premiership, at the time a world record in any football code. 1969 - Balmain win a controversial grand final 11 - 2 over South Sydney. The game causes controversy due to Balmain 's lay down tactics. 1975 - Eastern Suburbs beat St. George by a then record 38 - 0 score line. St. George fullback Graeme Langlands plays the game in white boots and has a painkiller injection go wrong. 1977 - St. George and Parramatta play out the first drawn grand final, 9 - all after extra time. They come back the next week for a grand final replay and St. George win 22 - 0. 1978 - Manly and Cronulla play out the second drawn grand final, 11 - all. There is no extra time and the replay is played on the following Tuesday, won by Manly 16 - 0. 1987 - Manly defeat Canberra 18 - 8 in the last grand final played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. 1989 - Known by many as the best grand final ever, Canberra come from 14 - 2 down to beat Balmain 19 - 14 in extra time. Canberra became the first team outside of NSW to win the competition. 1992 - The Brisbane Broncos defeat St. George 28 - 8 to become the first Queensland team to win the grand final. 1997 - Brisbane defeat Cronulla for their third premiership in the Super League grand final. This was the first night grand final, the first ( and currently only ) top level rugby league grand final to be played outside of Sydney before a record crowd for any sporting event in Queensland of 58,912. 1997 - Newcastle winger Darren Albert scores a try with six seconds left to deliver Newcastle their first ever premiership, 22 - 16 over Manly. 1999 - A world record crowd of 107,999 watch the two newest clubs Melbourne Storm and St George Illawarra Dragons battle it out. St. George Illawarra lead 18 - 14 before a late penalty try to Melbourne winger Craig Smith gives the Storm a 20 - 18 win to become the first Victorian team to win a NRL premiership and the quickest NRL club to win their first ever premiership in only their second season. 2001 - Newcastle win the first night grand final in Sydney, 30 - 24 over Parramatta. 2005 - Wests Tigers five - eighth Benji Marshall throws a magic flick pass to winger Pat Richards as the Tigers become the first joint venture to win the premiership, 30 - 16 over the North Queensland Cowboys. 2008 - Manly Warringah Sea Eagles secure a record 40 - 0 win over Melbourne Storm. 2014 - South Sydney Rabbitohs win their first premiership in 43 years, beating Canterbury - Bankstown Bulldogs 30 - 6. 2015 - The North Queensland Cowboys ' first premiership after 21 seasons in the NRL and widely regarded as one of the all - time best ( along with the Raiders ' ' 89 win ). The first all - Queensland NRL grand final sparked talk of future deciders being held in Queensland. It was also notable as Brisbane Broncos ended their biggest drought from a grand final since entering the competition ( in 1988 ) and it was Bennett 's first season back in Brisbane after leaving in 2008. North Queensland Cowboys winger Kyle Feldt scored a try from a Michael Morgan try - assist after the full - time siren to level the game at 16 - all. After Jonathan Thurston missed the sideline conversion, hitting the right post, the match went to golden point extra time, the first grand final to do so. The Kyle Feldt kick - off to begin golden point was dropped by the Broncos ' Ben Hunt. From the ensuing set of six, Thurston kicked the winning field goal, and was subsequently awarded the Clive Churchill Medal. It also ended Brisbane 's undefeated streak in grand finals, having won all six previous deciders. 2016 - Cronulla - Sutherland Sharks win their first premiership in their 50th season by defeating Melbourne Storm 14 - 12. This was also only their 4th grand final appearance since entering the competition in 1967. Their other grand final appearances came in 1973, 1978 and 1997. The Sharks won only one of their final five regular - season games. But it was enough to break through for their inaugural premiership. 2017 - The Melbourne Storm won their third valid title, and will go down as one of the most dominant sides in Rugby League history after winning the minor premiership an premiership as well as having the best attack and defence of any team, finishing the season off with 23 wins and 4 losses. Audience The 1999 NRL Grand Final saw a new rugby league world record crowd of 107,999 was at Stadium Australia for the game. The attendance, which saw 67,142 more people attend than had done so for the 1998 NRL Grand Final at the Sydney Football Stadium, broke the record attendance for a grand final, eclipsing the previous record of 78,065 set in 1965 when St. George defeated South Sydney 12 - 8 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The 2014 NRL Grand Final had a crowd of 83,833 was the largest attendance at a sporting event at Stadium Australia since its 2001 reconfiguration. Entertainment See also : List of national anthem performers at the NRL Grand Final and List of NRL Grand Final pre-match performances Early NRL grand finals featured a halftime show consisting of marching bands but as the popularity of the game increased, a trend where popular singers and musicians performed during its pre-game ceremonies and the halftime show, or simply sang the Advance Australia Fair, emerged. 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Question: who kicked the only field goal in the 2004 grand final
Answer: Jonathan Thurston