2017 NRL Grand Final
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| Date | 1 October 2017 | ||||||||||||
| Stadium | ANZ Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Location | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Matt Cecchin, Gerard Sutton | ||||||||||||
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The 2017 NRL Grand Final will be the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2017 NRL season to be played on Sunday October 1 at Sydney's ANZ Stadium. The match will be contested between minor premiers the Melbourne Storm and the eighth-placed North Queensland Cowboys. This will be the third time that the grand final will be contested by two non-Sydney based teams, after the 2006 Grand Final (Brisbane defeating Melbourne) and the 2015 Grand Final (North Queensland defeating Brisbane by a golden point).
Melbourne Storm halfback Cooper Cronk is set to play in his seventh grand final after having previously featured in every premiership decider his club have reached since 2006. It will also be his last game for the Storm after playing 323 first-grade games for the club. Cronk, Will Chambers, Cameron Smith, Jesse Bromwich, and Billy Slater were the last remaining members of their last premiership winning team in 2012. The North Queensland Cowboys have twelve players from their 2015 Premiership winning side. Co-captains Johnathan Thurston and Matt Scott are the most notable absentees from their last Grand Final appearance after both suffered long-term injuries during the season, although Scott was named as a reserve for the starting line-up. They were replaced by Te Maire Martin and Scott Bolton (who came of the bench in 2015) respectively, with Martin being transferred mid-season from the Penrith Panthers to cover the injured representative halfback. Cowboys utility Ben Hampton will make a consecutive Grand Final appearance after playing for the Storm in their loss to the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks the preceding year's premiership decider.
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