The Roosters pulled off a controversial 14-8 victory over a brave Canberra to win the 2019 grand final, becoming the first team to win back-to-back premierships since Brisbane in the early 1990s.

St George won 11 in a row from 1956-66, including three straight over Western Suburbs. The 1998 NRL grand final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 1998 NRL season.It was the first grand final of the re-unified National Rugby League and featured minor premiers and the previous year's Super League premiers, the Brisbane Broncos against the Canterbury Bulldogs, who had finished the regular season 9th (out of 20) to make a top-ten play-off grouping. Former NSW and Australian representative who made his 99th and final appearance for the Knights in the 1997 grand final. Check out the 800 sports in the Encyclopedia of Every Sport. To celebrate Wolf Blass Wines giving NRL fans the chance to win tickets to every Grand Final of the decade, enjoy the best moments of the last decade! There have been 21 NRL Premierships and 112 overall, including the competition's predecessors (NSWRL, ARL and Super League).This is a list of all the grand finals that were played to decide those premierships. "There were a lot of better footballers than me who have gone around and never won a grand final," he said. Former NSW and Australian representative who made his 99th and final appearance for the Knights in the 1997 grand final.

This year’s grand final was originally scheduled to be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground for the first time since 1987 as ANZ Stadium would be unavailable due to a planned $800 million redevelopment. Grand Finals have a long and storied history going back 108 years.

The premierships not decided by a grand final were determined by league ladder position. There have been 21 NRL Premierships and 112 overall, including the competition's predecessors (NSWRL, ARL and Super League).This is a list of all the grand finals that were played to decide those premierships.

Andrew Johns selects the winner of the 1997 and 2001 premiership winning Newcastle Knights NRL teams. 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. A grand final appearance in 1979, followed by a grand final win in 1980 with a young, enthusiastic and free-running side dubbed "The Entertainers", was the beginning of a golden era that was to produce three more grand final wins in the 1980s: 1984, 1985 and 1988.

"It was a great relief to me to finally win a grand final in my last game," he said.

... Joey makes call on who'd win '97 v '01 Knights virtual grand final …

The 1998 NRL grand final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 1998 NRL season.It was the first grand final of the re-unified National Rugby League and featured minor premiers and the previous year's Super League premiers, the Brisbane Broncos against the Canterbury Bulldogs, who had finished the regular season 9th (out of 20) to make a top-ten play-off grouping. The Roosters broke and James Tedesco scored to complete a 14-8 victory.