This is the highest Rugby League Grand Final margin in Australian history, eclipsing the Canberra Raiders Position Brisbane Broncos; Josh Dugan: FB: Josh Hoffman: Drury Low: WG: Mitch Rivett: Jarrod Croker: CE: Will Tupou: Daniel … Invalid postcode. Mon 05 Nov, 2018 [citation needed] Since 1999 it has been contested at Sydney's Stadium Australia, which was the primary athletics venue for the 2000 Olympic Games. In September 2015, the New South Wales Government announced it intended to upgrade the stadium within the next decade, and install a retractable roof over the stadium.On 23 November 2017, the New South Wales Government revealed that Stadium Australia would be knocked down and completely re-built, with a new 75,000 seat rectangular stadium built in its place. GF glory: Menzies makes the perfect swansong. In the forty-seventh minute, The Sea Eagles were within twenty metres of the Storm's try-line when Matt Orford at first receiver put a grubber kick into the left corner which bounced up perfectly for Michael Robertson racing through on the wing to grab and dive over for his second try.

The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles defeated the Melbourne Storm 40-0, scoring eight tries, four of which were converted. As the largest capacity stadium in Australia that can be configured for rectangular field sports, important Stadium Australia also hosts a smaller number of domestic The stadium is due to host a number of matches of the On 26 October 2002, Stadium Australia played host to When it was known as Stadium Australia, the venue hosted the "Telstra Stadium" redirects here. During the 2008 regular season, the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and the Melbourne Storm met twice: Round 5 and Round 22. 08:28 Sea Eagles. GF glory: Menzies makes the perfect swansong. On 5 October 2008, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles defeated the Melbourne Storm 40–0 in the 2008 NRL Grand Final in front of 80,388 fans. Referee. Sea Eagles won 40 to 0 at ANZ Stadium. Halfback The grand final's first quarter was played end to end with each side able to hold the other's attacking opportunities out. Tue 10 Sep, 2019 ... Grand Final, 2008. Match Summary: www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/14683. The season commenced with the first matches played on 14 March and ended with the Grand Final, played on 5 October. For the second year, sixteen teams competed for the 2008 Telstra Premiership title. Match info page for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles vs. Melbourne Storm game in the Grand Final of the 2008 NRL season. In 2002, telecommunications company In 1993, Stadium Australia was designed to host the The first sporting event held at the stadium was on 6 March 1999 when a then-record The first musical act held at the newly built stadium was the The stadium was not officially opened until June 1999 when the 16 November 2005 saw 82,698 attend the second leg of the On 5 October 2008, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles defeated the Melbourne Storm 40–0 in the In February 2009, the stadium replaced its existing two television screens with new Panasonic HD LED video screens that measure 23x10m – 70% larger than the original screens, and 50% larger than the screens in the 25 September 2009 saw the largest ever NRL finals attendance (non-grand final) in competition history when 74,549 fans saw the On 6 July 2013 a new rectangle configuration record attendance of 83,702 watched the The record set by the Wallabies test was broken just 10 days later on 17 July when 83,813 (only 187 short of capacity) attended Game 3 of the On 6 September 2013, the largest ever NRL minor round attendance for a single game at the stadium was set when 59,708 saw eventual On 18 June 2014, 83,421 fans saw NSW defeat Qld 6–4 in Game 2 of the On 5 October 2014, a new post-reconfiguration attendance record of 83,833 saw South Sydney defeat Canterbury-Bankstown 30–6 in the On 27 December 2014, a new domestic cricket record crowd for NSW was set with 32,823 attending the Sydney Derby between the History was repeated on 4 October 2015 when for only the second time in the NRL's history, no NSW team was in the grand final and for the first time ever, it was a In October 2001, major reconfiguration work on the stadium was commenced to allow for sports that require an oval field, such as The reconfiguration work was completed in October 2003 in time for the 2003 Rugby World Cup where the then Telstra Stadium hosted the opening game, two other groups games, both semi-finals, the third-place play-off and final matches of the competition. GF glory: Menzies makes the perfect swansong.

Orford's difficult kick went wide, so the Sea Eagles' lead remained at 8-0 with under five minutes of the half remaining which were played out with no further points scored. Tue 10 Sep, 2019 Sea Eagles. The stadium was originally built to hold 110,000 spectators, making it the largest The stadium lacked a naming rights sponsor in its formative years, bearing the name Stadium Australia between its opening in 1999 and 2002. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. The premiership was won by the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles who set the record for the highest Grand Final victory in Australia's rugby league history Three minutes later, and from a similar attacking position, the Sea Eagles kept the ball alive, a pass from Brett Stewart fifteen metres out arriving at the feet of Steve Matai who, with only one defender before him, picked it up and passed to Michael Robertson to dive over again in the same corner.

In the twenty-fourth minute the Sea Eagles' hooker Matt Ballin at close-range ran from dummy-half and crashed over the try-line.