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Apr 17, 2024 · This saw the Melbourne Storm face off with the St George/Illawarra Dragons for the second time in the NRL Finals series, this time in the 1999 NRL Grand Final. The Melbourne Storm – 1999 Grand Final Team 1 Robbie Ross 2 Craig Smith 3 Aaron Moule 4 Tony Martin 5 Marcus Bai 6 Matt Geyer 7 Brett Kimmorley 8 Glenn Lazarus (C) 9 Richard Swain 10 ...
Apr 15, 2024 · NRL History. NRL 1998. NRL 2000. Match info page for the Melbourne Storm vs. St George Illawarra Dragons game in the Grand Final of the 1999 NRL season. Storm won 20 to 18 at Stadium Australia.
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- Chapter 1: The Start of The Storm - Simply Super
- Chapter 2: The First Joint Venture - Enter The Dragons
- Chapter 3: The Storm's Build-Up - Final Tweaks
- Chapter 4: The Dragons' Build-Up - Red V Red Hot
- Chapter 5: The First Half - One-Way Traffic
- Chapter 6: The Forward Pact - Kiwis Get Physical
- Chapter 7: The Mundine Missed Try - Man, OH Man
- Chapter 8: The Comeback - Rising Like Lazarus
- Chapter 9: The Penalty Try - OH No, Ainscough
- Chapter 10: The Conversion - Geyer's Jelly Legs
'I had to stay with the ‘S' brand'
The Melbourne Storm was born out of the Super League peace deal at the end of the 1997 season and their roster comprised largely of players from defunct clubs Perth Reds and Hunter Mariners, plus journeymen from other sides – but they almost missed out on Brett Kimmorley. The star halfback was one of six Mariners players to join the Storm but after a proposed merger between the Newcastle-based club and the ARL-controlled Gold Coast Chargers collapsed Kimmorley was set to play for Illawarra in...
'Put me at No.6 or don't worry' Bringing the 12 Steelers and 13 St George players together was always going to be the biggest task for Waite and Farrar, but it was made more difficult by the fact Anthony Mundine and Trent Barrett wanted the No.6 jersey. "At that professional level there are egos involved," Mundine said. "I wanted to be five-eighth ...
'Huge call not to play his own son'
Glenn Lazarus, the only player to win premierships with three clubs after leading the Storm to victory in his farewell match, still tells the story at corporate speaking engagements of Craig Smith's perseverance in 1999. After playing 17 matches for Melbourne in 1998, Smith did not get a call-up from coach Chris Anderson until the second week of the '99 finals following the Storm's 34-10 loss to St George Illawarra at Olympic Park. The selection of Smith was an even bigger bombshell because A...
'It didn't feel like we were going to win a game'
Trent Barrett's most vivid memory of grand final day was the sight of the saddle-shaped roof of Stadium Australia as the team bus drove towards the 110,000 seat stadium from St George Leagues Club. "Coming up King George's Road you could see the stadium in the distance because it was new then and there wasn't much else around it so it really stood out," Barrett recalled. The Dragons had helped to open the stadium in their first match against Parramatta before a then world record crowd of 104,...
'The captain was crying'
Melbourne coach Chris Anderson blames his side's poor first-half performance on an emotional pre-match build-up. It was a remarkable feat to make a grand final in just their second year and the Storm players were determined to send out their captain Glenn Lazarus with a sixth premiership after he previously enjoyed success with Canberra in 1989 and 1990 and Brisbane in 1992, 1993 and 1997. "We got too emotional before the game and we lost our way in the first half," Anderson said. "It was a b...
'T grabbed me and said let's go for it'
As the exhausted Storm players were walking off the field at half-time, lock Tawera Nikau pulled fellow Kiwi Kearney aside. "I just had a chat to Stephen as we were going up the tunnel and said ‘we have got 40 minutes, let's get out there and rip in'," Nikau said. "In the second half our defence changed the game for us and we got a bit of momentum. Kearney said: "T grabbed me and said ‘let's go after it'. If you look at the start of the second half, it was quite intentional what we were tryin...
'A lot of people blame Anthony'
The Storm began the second half in more adventurous fashion, with Kearney offloading to fullback Robbie Ross and St George Illawarra prop Craig Smith being penalised for a high shot on Kimmorley after he gathered the ball from a Geyer kick. Melbourne winger Craig Smith scored his team's first points with a 42nd-minute penalty goal but the Dragons regained control and appeared set to claim an unassailable lead when Mundine regathered his own grubber near the try line and dived over but lost th...
'You could feel a little bit of fear from the Dragons'
Melbourne captain Glenn Lazarus has revealed how a message from their bench about St George Illawarra's injury toll gave his side confidence they could power home to snatch victory. While Dragons prop Chris Leikvoll (biceps injury) and Patten (leg) were forced to watch the remainder of the match from the sideline, Anderson made the most of the unlimited interchange rule as he rotated his forwards. "With about 20 minutes to go we got word that their bench was severely busted up," Lazarus said....
'It will be the biggest decision you have ever made'
If Kimmorley had stuck to his initial plan to grubber into the in-goal area, the 1999 grand final may not have ended in such controversy. "The reason the kick went to the corner rather than a grubber for a repeat set was because Jamie Ainscough had come in-field to take the grubber so the kick went to the corner," Kimmorley said. "I remember the ball seemed to float in the air for a long, long time and Craig Smith had literally caught the ball and you didn't know if he had scored the try." Sm...
'I would have preferred someone else to get knocked out'
Matt Geyer couldn't remember his run-up as he lined up the most important goal kick of his career after Craig Smith was knocked out by Ainscough's tackle. Geyer still holds the Storm record for most points in a season with his 1999 haul of 242 points from 20 tries and 81 goals but he had stopped practising after Smith had been called into the team three weeks earlier. "I had just been fetching them for him because I thought there was no need for me to practise, he was hitting them from everyw...
- NRL Senior Reporter
The 1999 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 1999 NRL season. It was contested by the competition's two newest clubs: the Melbourne Storm, competing in only its second year ; and the St. George Illawarra Dragons, in their first year as a joint-venture club, after both sides eliminated the rest of the top eight during the finals.
Sep 9, 2019 · The Craig Smith penalty try that sealed the Melbourne Storm's inaugural Premiership in 1999 will be forever remembered in rugby league history. For full grand final replays, head to NRL TV.
Jun 5, 2019 · Where are they now - 1999 Grand Final team. After finishing the 1999 regular season in third place, Melbourne Storm managed a feat precious few expected the Victorian expansion side would achieve so quickly - winning the club's inaugural premiership in only its second year of existence. Trailing 14-0 to the St George Illawarra Dragons at half ...
