Interesting take from James regarding the lack of celebration after Leota’s try. It felt more to me like they were just locked in on getting the ball back and going again. You look at Cleary’s face after that try and you’ll never see someone with a more locked in look on their face.

As a life-long Panthers fan, it made me so unbelievably happy to see the Peach get a premiership ring. The three-peat is insane too, and Cleary was brilliant, but the Peach was one of my favourite players some years ago and to see him finally have a premiership to his name makes me happy. What a season.

Vote for the best front row forward on the panel today in the comments. (The other guys name is James Graham)

I remember last week Gordan Tallis on 360 saying that "kids wanted to be Reece Walsh, they dont want to be Nathan Cleary" 😂

Shout out to Garner going from wooden spooner to premiership winner 🤙

This is going to be a tough carry as a broncos fan. See how long I can watch😂

Great job exposing some of the other player’s contributions to the game. Its easy to shine the light on Nathan for the win but the whole team needs to be credited for playing their roles.

People sleeping on Clearys running game. Dude is strong , good footwork , good fend and has pace. They've adjusted every year after a winning , next year I think we'll see him play both sides more and get the ball 2 passes wide more.

Ivan needs credit for giving Critta that conversion from the right side. Considering they won by only 2 points. Even despite Nathan's 50% conversion rate from the right side still would have been a big call for Ivan to make.

Few big turning points, Bronx were up 24-8, around the 58th min, Critta jumped on a loose ball and they go down the field - changed the momentum of the game. Reno’s short drop kicks and Luai getting subbed as well.

Cogger was a huge difference when he came on. I think Cleary said post match that Cogger made a huge difference to how he was playing when he came on.

As a Penrith fan, I’d just like to congratulate Kempy on this episode. His intelligence and RL insight were always going to be a given. My specific reasoning is how difficult this episode would have been to record and give this analysis when heartbroken. Thank you Denan (& all the boys) for everything this year. It’s been a pleasure and I’ll continue to spread the word on your work. (Nothing to do with this podcast) conversely, I’d like to highlight how disgraceful gordon tallis has been on post GF last night on 360, and the entirety of last week with relentless barbs and one sided views. Zero integrity. Zero professionalism.

What Penrith did was frikn amazing

Having some dramas with KZfaq processing, only 360p quality for premiere. Will be HD after.

Love the dynamic jimmy brings keep him on.

New Zealander. and can honestly say this is the best NRL Podcast hands down. love willie mason's but man. the vibes here ! too good

Denan, I just want to say you are all class. You are an ex-Bronco and you were so balanced in your comments in spite of your disappointment. Great stuff.

I don't understand the hate for Cleary at all. I think it's because he gets compared to the greats and people are so attaches to them that they're threatened by it? I dunno. And I'm a cows/qld fan but he's an amazing player and seems like a good dude, nothing but love brah ❤️

I must say although we lost gotta give props to jessie arthurs especially in the first half his run backs reminded me of Karmicheal Hunt i thought he was our best player on the field in the first half

Up the Panthers!!!

Leota is a weapon! Roll tape back to last years grand final. Edwards covering tackle the big fella is first guy sprinting back to help if need.

Critta intercepts a bouncing ball and offloads to Leota.Scores a try against The Beast Staggs.Makes crucial tackles against Walsh.He'll be more than Welcome at the Bulldogs

Re. Timmy’s question about Luai and whether it was all his shoulder or strategy… I was sitting row 3 in the Panthers bay right in front of the posts when Luai came off over the dead ball line. He was dangling that injured arm like it had little strength in it, cussing himself out for being “forced” from the field. Looked to me like he wasn’t able to stay on.

guru doin the chicken dance is one of the great rugby league moments

Love the show! Would be cool to see a season review episode with all the fans from each club like you have done before. Just a thought. Onya boys 💯🙌

Idk if anyone else sees this, but that first try in particular from Mam gave me alot of Jason Robinson vibes, the way he held the ball tight and almost shimmied and accelerated through the line

Up the mighty panthers!!! what a performance!!

Best start to the poddy ever 😆😆🤣

Moses leota coming back onto the field was second in line to nathan cleary why they won that match

Jimmy being a mainstay would be ideal

There’s a certain je ne sais quoi about this poddy that keeps me coming back, loving your work kempy. Now you just need to fix that warped photo frame behind timmy aha

Really brave from kempy to show up today. Tough stuff

What was Reynolds thinking by taking attacking drop outs when 16 points up? There was no need for it.

Ivan is at home working on number 4.

Love the poddy Kempy and my thanks and appreciation for how many hours all of you blokes put up over a season. The Dylan Edwards of podcasting churning out the numbers week in & week out! Gotta say though I think the championing of the Broncos is a tad high on this one. Credit they dug in. Absolutely. Credit they produced some mad individual moments. 100%. But, all in, they played well for about 25-35 mins of a GF in my opinion and that's just not good enough, albeit a compliment to see they can go so close without really delivering for the majority of the game. I personally don't think you can say 'If only they'd made 4/5 less errors and they'd have won'. Because the easy instant comeback is 'If Cleary just misses two less tackles the Broncos have 12 less points'. So glad you gave Leota & JFH the credit you did, and the subsequent championing of Carrigan & Haas (Haas in particular) is more than fine. BUT, I believe the score when Leota & JFH are on the field is 26-0. For all the talk of Leota, JFH & Yeo vs Haas, Flegler & Carrigan leading into the game, the result of that particular middle battle was, like it or not, one sided. The drop off to Leniu & Smith was Penrith's main issue on the night in my opinion. Haas & Carrigan are obviously fantastic players so I'm not being a flog, but I feel nobody will come out and say that when they were toe to toe with the Penrith pair that, despite individual stats, the game momentum and flow beyond merely stats shows who dominated without question. In both stints. I'm with Guru that you can talk about them in the Webcke/Petero mould now. Thanks again for another season of podcasting to all of you fellas, love your work and grateful for how many listening hours you put up.

any live reaction of the beak in tears after the game?

I'm so proud of Broncos boys like so many of their supporters. Difference between two teams was broncos made errors and panthers didn't. However as painful as it was, I'm totally convinced that Broncos' best time has just began. Looking forward to next year. LET'S GO BRONCOS!! Absolutely love them to bit, through and through! ❤️

Gentlemen, brilliant, thoughtful analysis.

Will the stream be from chemist warehouse in Brisbane

Great commentary. Great analysis and passion from you guys.

James graham using the word unbelievable…..hahaha

One of the greatest Grand Final games we will ever witness. Just wanted to share my opinion about Clearly, he is becoming one of the greatest number 7's in the NRL era no question at all. Do we think he does what he did if Luai and Yeo don't go off injured? I think if they both stay on the field, Clearly possibly doesn't do what he did because he wouldn't have to do anything special himself if they were still on. Still not taking away his unbelievable performance but something I thought about after the game. Panthers 4 in a row next year 😬 As a roosters Fan... I hope not 🐓🐓🐓

Only question marks I have for the Broncos - it was mentioned its a similar vibe to 2020 Penrith - in the 2020 GF the Panthers almost came back and stole the game - complete reverse here, the Broncs blew a huge lead and lost in the worst way possible. I am interested to see how they respond next year mentally.

Scott sorenson doesn’t even get a mention. In that last minute when he came away with the ball from Walsh that could’ve possibly saved the game for Penrith. Who know what broncos could’ve done if Walsh didn’t give it away. That was a big play too from Scotty.

Stay patient broncos fans

I dont believe the Bronco's first try was really a try

staggs over farnworth in team of the week is crazy ! thought farnworth was one of broncos best

Go the panthers

one of the toughest games to watch as a bronx fan but fuck me seeing ezra throw his body on the line in that last 5mins was a big positive, he threw himself at martin and just cemented his quality i reckon, not just the x factor but the grit too

been a penrith fan since 1987 shocking win !

"Who do you think you are? I AM!" - Kempy after the definition of je ne sais quoi was read 😂

You’re a champ for holding it together kempy, don’t now you did mate👍🏾

2022 Panthers wipes the floor against this years Panthers

i think Penrith were playing too safe first half, thought they could grind them out of the game. Once is 8-24 Cleay had to open up and attack.

Look head up bronx fans remember Penrith didn’t win straight away they had to grind to win I feel like Bronx have shown greatness to compete with the best and make it to a GF now they got to put in that work going into next szn. Exited to see what the bronx are going to achieve in the coming years.

I know people are pissed at Reynolds for the drop kicks but it's the GF you gotta put everything out there with no regrets.

Early like for the thumbnail, Love Grahams insight.

Just on carrrigan he didn’t cover across the inside space nore tell Reece walsh to cover that inside where Nathan ran through for the win so all that extra shit he does that your talking about doesn’t matter he didn’t do it when it mattered the absolute most

Imo I think staggs hurt Luais shoulder around the time he comes off. I only saw it live but stags runs full pace at his bad shoulder and it's really heavy contact. A few mins later he gets taken off.

1:51 “it absolutely shit me the media narrative all last week, so 1 sided geared for 1 team” Nrl360 ???? Maggot Tallis ????

Only good thing about daylight savings is this premiers while im still at work now

The only selection mistake Cleary made was picking Tyrone May to play centre against Justin Olam over Brent Naden who he benched in the Penrith v Melbourne GF. Naden came on in the second half and you could see the difference. Ivan chose a versitile utility to play centres over a specialized centre-winger that has played there the entire year. That selection choice haunts me to this day and i bet it does Ivan aswell.

What I saw was a team who were winning and started to rehearse their winning speeches and forgot the game went for 80 minutes. Worst thing about the game were the Channel Nine Commentators who were so bronco we had to turn their commentary off. Best thing was Cleary and his magnificent last 20 minutes where he showed the broncos how the game was played. Most satisfying moment was when Reynolds, Walters and especially Reese missed the tackle that lost them the game. Jokers, Strokers and Big Game Chokers which will haunt them.

Love to see Cleary and Mam have a beer

Dally M system doesnt work they need to tweak it or add a dally m forward of the year/defensive player of the year maybe?

No way in hell this broncos teams beats the 21/22 panthers 😂

Commiserations beak loved the passion all year mate

Im convinced Haas isn't human haha he's a machine. The stuff he does is just unbelievable. I'm already calling it that he'll be the greatest ever prop and/or forward to have played when he finishes his career

Nothing better then beating a qld team 😂 in grand final

Matty is the curse. He cursed the bunnies in magic round saying" who's gonna beat us". Now he's cursed the broncos with his premature ejaculation during the grand final.

Penrith are just way better then any other team in.the comp ... they hammered Brisbane from the start ... Reynolds was flustered and the middles where absolutely dominated for 65 minutes..

can we get matty a mic again so he doesn’t have to lean into tim’s “cross land”

Greatness > Hotness

Love Jimmy's unremitting support of the international game.

54:33 In French, je ne sais quoi literally means "I don't know what." It's used to capture an indescribable, special distinguishing feature, or to name some unnamable quality. - Google, 2023

Can see Newcastle in the play for a top 4 spot with Cogger added to the lineup now

I saw no difference between the Fleggler try and the Cam Mcguiness no try vs. the Roosters.

Typical when you can't accept the loss, you say, "Rugby League was the winner at the end of the day "

Did Cleary really have that bad of a first 60 I thought it was good

I'm sure its Scott Gale who does the short drop for Raiders in 91

Every one has forgotten that the Broncos used their last replacements at the 60 minute mark. Penrith gassed them and came home strong.

I honestly reckon broncos should look up to the panthers and what they’ve done with such a young team , instead of them & also media creating a rivalry between each other .

Im worried about broncos punch up the middle next year, flegler has really evolved and gotten the shit out of his game. Hes going to be missed sorely, we get fletcher baker next year but still feel flegler is top tier forward now. And also herbie farnworths work rate is crazy i used to rate staggs over him but tbh if you could resign again i reckon ya take herbie and get rid of staggs. Herbie is alot more consistent but staggs is a beast for sure i just feel we'll see the difference next year with him gone

Critter played a massive part of that win cleary was good but so was critter

Let’s go 🔥

Critta. Best fade in the game

Bro the first 19 minutes is an ad 🤣

'99 Man United win in added injury time in the Champions League final was against Bayern Munich ❤

Interesting your comment about Joey - could he have done that? He didn't need to ! Cleary's first 60 minutes was woeful, excruciatingly woeful. Without Stephen Crichton's relentless attack, they simply don't win.

Make no mistake. It was the Galway curse

Mental what people are saying about Walsh! Granted they kept him quiet first half but that assist alone was absolutely insane. Broncos hang on 2 more minutes and the narrative is Walsh is a king and Nathan Cleary isn’t a big game player….

Hope we can blood mozer more next year ,

Guru, shame on you. Brad Fittler won his first premiership when he was 19 years of age. First grand final at 18. I know Roosters fans like to think he only played for the Roosters but he captained Australia when still playing for the Panthers.

Big Jammer!

Walsh just likes the smell of his own farts a bit too much and believed they were better than they are

Timmy of ( picks team up off the canvas ) fame

Hahaha best intro fu🙈kkkkk

Kempy with Staggs & Isaako to play for Roos & Kiwis. Most likely Staggs plays for Tonga & Isaako for Samoa so neither are guaranteed at all

It was hard to watch the game after that Tina pre game show. I felt a bit sick.

Ezra Mam is an absolute weapon, definitely an origin smokey, cant wait to see him burning NSW for a decade