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The 2009 NRL season was the 102nd season of professional rugby league football club competition in Australia, and the twelfth run by the National Rugby League. The premiership was won by the Melbourne Storm in their fourth consecutive grand final appearance. The season commenced with the first match played on 13 March and ended with the Grand Final, played on 4 October. For the third year, sixteen teams competed for the premiership title. The second season of the National Youth Competition also commenced in line with its senior competition.
[edit] Season summarySee also: 2009 NRL season results This season the NRL introduced a second on-field referee.[1] Previously when the ball changed possession the lone on-field referee would have to change his position to stay with the defending team. He also could only observe the ruck from one direction. The two-referee system saves the referees some running back and forth to get into position as possession changes and also improves watchfulness over the ruck. The St. George Illawarra Dragons, under new coach Wayne Bennett finished the regular season with their first minor premiership title as a joint venture club. However, the Dragons then became the first minor premiers since the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in 1993 to be eliminated from the final series in consecutive losses. For the first time since the McIntyre Final Eight System was introduced, a game was played twice in a row in the same stadium. This happened when the Dragons and Parramatta Eels played each other in round 26 (the final regular season round) and again in the first week of finals, both at WIN Jubilee Oval at Kogarah. The Eels went on to become the first side since the McIntyre Final Eight System was introduced (in 1999) to make the grand final from eighth position. Along the way, they defeated the top three teams - the St George Illawarra Dragons, Gold Coast Titans and Bulldogs - in their three finals series matches, to make it to their first Grand Final since 2001. [edit] Records set in 2009
[edit] TeamsThe number of teams in the NRL remained unchanged since the previous season, with sixteen participating in the regular season: ten from New South Wales, three from Queensland and one from each of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. Of the ten from New South Wales, eight are from Sydney's metropolitan area, with St. George Illawarra being a Sydney and Wollongong joint venture. Just two foundation clubs from New South Wales Rugby League season 1908 played in this competition: the Sydney Roosters (formerly known as Eastern Suburbs) and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. [edit] Ladder
* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2 [edit] Ladder progression
[edit] Finals seriesSee also: 2009 NRL season results The NRL finals series adopts the McIntyre Final Eight System. Four teams made a return to the 2009 finals from 2008, grand finalists Melbourne Storm, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles along with the Brisbane Broncos and St George Illawarra Dragons. Both the Bulldogs and Parramatta Eels made a return after being absent in 2008. The Newcastle Knights made the finals for the first time since 2006 and their first since the departure of club legend Andrew Johns. The Gold Coast Titans entered their maiden finals series.
[edit] Grand FinalMain article: 2009 NRL Grand Final The Melbourne Storm were playing in their fourth consecutive Grand Final and were up against the Parramatta Eels who were playing in their first Grand Final since 2001. Parramatta were first team since the McIntyre Finals System was introduced in 1999 to make the Grand Final from 8th spot. First Half: Melbourne's Ryan Hoffman broke the Eels' line to scored the first try of the game in the fifth minute to make the score 6-0. Parramatta was looking shaky in the first half, and Melbourne capitalised with a try to Adam Blair in the 24th minute, set up by a Cooper Cronk line-break, to make the score 10-0. Second Half: Parramatta scored early in the second half, with Eric Grothe, Jr., scoring in the 45th minute to bring the scoreline to 10-6. Melbourne responded quickly, with tries to Greg Inglis off a bomb kick in the 49th minute and Billy Slater from a line break in the 56th minute, to open a handy 22-6 lead heading into the final quarter of the game. Parramatta attacked through the final quarter of the game, then broke through for two tries: one to Joel Reddy off a bomb kick in the 70th minute, then a barnstorming run from Fuifui Moimoi off an off-load in the 72nd minute; only the former of these tries was converted, bringing the score to 22-16. In the 76th minute, with Melbourne attacking from their own half, Billy Slater dropped the ball as he tried to play it, but referee Tony Archer deemed that Parramatta's Fuifui Moimoi had held Slater down in the tackle, and awarded a penalty to the Storm[1]; Greg Inglis scored a field goal in the ensuing set-of-six, extending the margin to 23-16 in the 78th minute. Melbourne would hold on to win by that score. [edit] Match Summary
Half Time: 10 – 0 Clive Churchill Medallist: Billy Slater Referees: Tony Archer, Shayne Hayne Venue: ANZ Stadium, Sydney Attendance: 82,538 [edit] Timeline5th: Storm 6 – 0 (Try: Hoffman, Goal: C Smith) [edit] 2009 club and player recordsThe following figures were collected from the completion of round 26 of the regular season and therefore do not represent any figures associated with the finals series or any representative matches for this year. [edit] Top 5 point scorers
[edit] Top 5 try scorers
[edit] Most points in a match by an individual
[edit] Most tries in a match by an individual
[edit] Largest winning margin
[edit] Most points in a match
[edit] Least points in a match
[edit] Most points scored in a match by an individual team
[edit] Attendance2009's regular season attendance figures were the highest recorded in Australian rugby league history, with a total of 3,081,849. This figure bettered the previous record set by the 1995 Winfield Cup's regular season (3,061,338 in a 20 team competition) and also beat the Telstra Premiership's previous best of 3,024,149 set in 2007.[3] The 2009 season also saw the second highest average crowd figure of a regular season, with a crowd average of 16,051, behind the best of 16,466 set in the 2005 NRL season. The 20 highest regular season match attendances: [edit] See also[edit] References
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