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The 2012 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2012 NRL season. Played on Sunday, 30 September at Sydney's ANZ Stadium between the minor premiers Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the second-placed Melbourne Storm .
The 2012 NRL season was the 105th season of professional rugby league club competition in Australia, and the first run by the newly formed Australian Rugby League Commission. The main competition, called the 2012 NRL Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship from Telstra Corporation was contested by the sixteen teams of the National Rugby League .
The 2012 NRL season consisted of 26 weekly regular season rounds starting on 1 March, followed by four weeks of play-offs that culminated in the grand final on 30 September. [1] The finals format for 2012 was also changed, with the new ARL Commission dispensing with the McIntyre final eight system and replacing it with the finals system ...
This is a list of all the grand finals that were played to decide those premierships. Between 1912 and 1925, and again in 1937, the premiership was decided on a first-past-the-post basis, with a final only played if two teams finished with an equal amount of competition points. This happened in 1916, 1922, 1923 and 1924.
In 2021, the NRL Grand Final was played at Lang Park in Brisbane, as it was not possible for the match to be played at Stadium Australia due to the COVID-19 lockdown in New South Wales. [9] It was the first major rugby league grand final to be played in Queensland since the 1997 Super League grand final.
To date there have been over 850 first-grade players to wear the blue and white of the Bulldogs. Based in Belmore, a suburb of Sydney, the Bulldogs in 1935 were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition, a predecessor of the current NRL competition. Canterbury won its first premiership in just its fourth season (1938).
4: Sydney, Australia - The 2012 Dally M Awards are held at Sydney Town Hall and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs fullback, Ben Barba wins the Dally M Medal as the NRL's player of the year. [15] 30:Sydney, Australia - The 2012 NRL Grand final is won by the Melbourne Storm who defeat the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 14-4 at ANZ Stadium before a ...
The 2012 Melbourne Storm season was the club's 15th NRL season. Coached by Craig Bellamy and captained by Cameron Smith, they competed in and won the NRL's 2012 Telstra Premiership. The first nine weeks of the season were very successful, with the club winning all games for what was at the time their best start to a season.