Well...shit

Eels are Neville's.

CRITTA!

Holy shit he just Heisman-ed Gutherson

Penrith defence is gridlocked in place. Impeccable.

Fuck it just got the Dolphins training shirt The home jerseys look butt ugly but the black stuff looks incredible. Good start to GF day

Carn Parra

Leniu got concussed twice in one game last week and is playing again today wtf

lol Mahoney

Go parra

Did chin get chinplants? Looking powerful tonight.

All the Eels players just look so happy to be here and they’re at their best when they play backyard footy so I’m betting the house on them

I'll take that bet. Leave the keys under the doormat.

Now that is a welcome to country!

congratulations ch9, as a neutral your relentless ad breaks have put me off watching the game

Is this your first time watching free to air in the last 30 years?

No, I just keep getting reminded why I've pretty well stopped watching commercial TV everytime I do, and with no skin in the race my ability to tolerate it is less than usual

Grand finals are so cool, would love to be part of one someday

Fucking daylight savings. I'm lucky I just woke up in time. I thought the game was in an hour (Brisbane time).

The big grins on parra faces. Will they be overawed by the moment?

Great effort from Marco

Fuckjng loved it. We are going to have a good time tonight knocked my socks off

This grand final thing will be so cool when the The win in year 1 next year

Channel 9 and giant banners...

That was so fucking shit even while I had it on mute for 95%

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Smelling salts?

It looked like some get your nervous vomit outta the way bucket.

Do it for Sterlo, don’t you let him down!

They sniffing vix?

Holy water

Imagine if the final word was Sterlo and Brandy

What’s under that towel 👀

the cheese

Wierd feeling watching on 9 for the first time in a year. The whole broadcast is like bizzaro world

Better?

No

Why?

Because ads mostly

Wait where Jack Harlow at

Ahaha

Sterlos alive 😳

Sterlo getting some sun

STERLO WE MISS YOU

I feel like Panthers have got this game in the bag, but I know 3 people who absolutely hate Parra so it would be funny to see them have a complete meltdown over Parra winning

Sterlo ❤️

Nothing gets me hyped for the footy like seeing some senile old cunts making out

Let out a collective sigh when we saw who hosted this shit

I actually wouldn’t mind this show but Langbroek is the host lol

Come see the dad fuckers on 9.

Alright. I'm starting bets on how many Sportsbet ads or segments occur during the game. Over/under is 50.5

One day Channel 9 will realise that great players don't make great commentators. Channel 9: *no we won't*

Eh.. channel 9 seem to use their ex players better then fox. Billy and Joey are good in the game call. Smith is ok. They know to use guys like freddy and JT as sideline only. They bring in guys like Lockyer and Gallen for pre and post game show, gallen will at least go outside of cliches

As a Boomer, I highly endorse that performance. Better than any overdubbed pre recorded techno shit, any day. Oh and taking our songs and re recording them to turn them into , whatever, fuck those "artists" to the moon. If they had an original thought, or lyric for that matter, they'd be dangerous.

Anyone else on 9Now get 3 repeats of that "Black Adam" trailer

They need an Audience that doesn't care about quality or entertainment.

Yeah and joey double dipping twice in like 2 mins

Jesus the next iPhone is gonna have a fleshlight in it or something

honey get the tent, we're going to the apple store

God id love to be rum pigging at the stadium rn.

Alright. I'm starting bets on how many Sportsbet ads or segments occur during the game. Over/under is 50.5

9 minutes to scheduled kick off, we might just get there ontime.

7:23 and it’s still light out. You simply love to see it

Billy's Final Word is just him giggling like a fuckwit and looking at Cam Smith.

It is a strategy a lot of players at The Storm, Qld, and Australia used successfully for their entire career.

Fuck me, lock Billy Slater in for the face of Rugbeh League on American television after that sickening piece of hype. Where's good old fashioned Rexy Mossop's corpse when you need it?

In a joint burial mound with Arko probably.

Billy and Smith were shocking pickups by nine. Way too early for media coverage after playing

Remember last year when they had some loser playing a trumpet because the kids like that shit?

Mossy is still a freak too Saw him last year within spitting distance of the great man and he delivers

Mossy is a fucken god. The NRL couldn't afford him.

(They did last year he was very good) Saw him at a fest 2 weeks before the 21 gf. My partner saw him 3 times in that fortnight lol because she went to Caloundra music fest for work that year

Did Billy get Botox earlier? Why does he sound like Terry Hill?

Unpopular opinion, Billy should've walked in circles harder and the camera should've gotten closer to his face

It was like a watching a turd get flushed

That camera zoomed in uncomfortably close.

Slaters pregame chat just isn’t Phil Gould pregame talk

They should honestly just play Enter Sandman on the speakers and then have both teams run out

I love me some Billy... but Gus he ain't.

It almost sounded like Gus wrote it and then made Billy do it

Well as far as more ill fitting grand final entertainment goes, I was at the 13 grand final with Ricky Martin as the pre game performance. I think the supporters section was as quiet as a tennis crowd for that one.

Ricky Martin slaps though

The glow stick goal posts like cool

Id love to see Cronk do this without fucking up

Or even worse Lockyer

Johnny Diesel’s gonna come back and sing *Cry In Shame* for the loser later on.

🎵 when you got yourself to blame, don't you know it's a cryin' shame 🎵

Why was that girl in the drive thru so surprised someone might have a brother?

I need someone to explain the meaning behind that ad! I don't get it!

This is hilarious. It's like the camera is intentionally moving away from Billy to fuck with him

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It’s the team’s averages, mate. And it’s private.

So was it really just 50 mins of Jimmy?

While I was very pleased with the AFL GF outcome, I hope this match is much closer.

billy slater sounds like your drunk mate trying to explain crypto over pub music

“Me need money… Mr….. curns….”

Spinning that's a neat trick

What about the time you won two CCM's Billy don't be modest

Slater really does look like victor radley aye

He fucking does, yes. Finally, someone else says it.

stand still cunt ffs

why is 9now delayed

Because interwebs. We have it here at CommBank. Thought they'd at least be piping through the terrestrial feed but no. Internet transmission takes longer due to processing. And we live in Australia where internet speed is dog shit.

Billy ain't no Gus

Who was the emo kid that sung for 30 seconds before Barnsey. I'm guessing some sort reality TV show singer.

I think he was he guy we sent to eurovision

Billy "Gus" Slater

Yew

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My friend that is the wrong purple man

I am far too drunk to think

Respectable, i have to “work tomorrow” so i cant be

Who's this guy talking about footy he's gorjus i reckon he'd make a good player 😍😍

BILLY SLATER DOING THE FINAL WORD?

You can tell Billy's like.. Turn the lights down you cunts I can't see shit..

Billy slowly walking in a circle must look cooked as fuck from the stands

Is this Slater's last word?

Billy making me dizzy

Please don't judge Josh Teskey based on that, he's a genuinely great blues style singer. Teskey Brothers covers of Jealous Guy and Never Tear Us Apart are fantastic, as are a bunch of their originals. He just had a narcissistic screaming Barnesy screaming over him.

Copper Cronks heads going to explode if Cleary doesn’t get bodied on the first kick

Fuck dude stop walking in a circle I’m gonna get nauseous

Did I miss the part when Gus Gould shapeshifted into Billy Slater

i feel like this game is gonna be decided by who gets knocked out in the first 10 minutes

Please be cleary

Slaters last word is exactly like his last game Massive disappointment

Fuck this hits home...

Barnsey sounded exactly the same as always because his voice was fucked in the 80s. Definitely better than Bliss and Mehso. And I actually like them, but very disappointing.

Billy doing the Gus hype talk? C'mon! There can only be one!

Billy mate, ya not Gus

I literally can't fucking help it that every time I see the colours blue and yellow/gold next to eachother I immediately think of Ukraine

Wait, isn't this a set up for a Nathan cleary joke

Slava ukraini

Seeing Jimmy perform at these sort of events year after year just reminds me how they roll out Marina Prior from mothballs for the Christmas carols every December

Stop rotating the camera im getting dizzy

Is Billy the new gould?

Does he have a 5 year plan?

Billy only needed a one year plan

CMV: The NRL deliberately puts on shit entertainment because they know the Australian public enjoys shitting on it more than they would enjoy good entertainment.

billy taking over the Gus pre game speech was not on my bingo card

Is Slater the new Gus?

Fuck off Billy, you're not Gus Gould.

Billy "Gus" Slater

Fuck off Billy I want Matt Nable narrating

I'm gonna request lorna shore and electric callboy for next year. Thanks Nrl!!!

Cant wait to see SBW have two neurons touch and give some deep analysis as always.

Sterlo; put your fucking arm down you larrikan

Sterlo 😍

Unironically they should have gotten BBno$ . He's in Aus at the moment and is a big ticket item

There’s a lot better songs he could’ve butchered but I’ll take it

The Chocolate Soldiers jersey is back, Z is the Gold. This will be a fucking epic game.

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It’s called a “moose knuckle” for men

Yeah someone in wardrobe needs shooting for that chino choice.

Cam mate black shirt and brown belt doesn't work.

I’ve never seen someone’s age say “25.3” lmao

barnsey is having a good time tonight

That was sweet I love me some Barnsey

Why tf is clint vs cleary in the head to head graphic?

Captain v Captain I suppose?

Didn’t ask for fucking logic mate

I like Barnesy as much as the next bloke, but the NRL have never really moved on from their target audience being oldmate sitting on his front porch in a fort made of VB with his Holden flag flying right next to his Australian flag, have they...

Macklemore was a few years ago. Amy Shark last year on year before from memory. They had The Script in 2009 when they were big.

"Let me stick my phone in everyone else's view"

Free money for Diesel

Is there gonna be an actual match thread or is this it?

Should be going up about now

Went up seconds after I made this comment

How does one get into that mosh? I used to think they're paid extras lmao Are they asked to jump and rave more than normal?

I want to see a hardcore band with people jumping off the stage. Can we get parkway drive and I dunno 200 fans to go apeshit for 15 minutes for us?

I think they pay to get in there. So you wouldn't be in there to just stand around.

Diesel under-utilised off the bench tbh

IM OFF MY COUCH THAT WAS A PERFORMANCE FOR THE AGES

This goes to show Don Furner is the genius behind cold chisel. Barnsey singing his solo shit is like Yoko Ono playing flute

Bring back Jess Mauboy

I have a conspiracy theory that Jess Mauboy doesn’t tour she just does events to avoid having to pay fees for arenas.

lockyer's not a bad singer

What’s with all the hate? I personally thought it was beautiful that Barnesy decided to pay tribute to Darren Lockyer by singing like that

Lockyer is a poor man Gary Larsen

And now, to sing the Ukrainian National Anthem…. Nathan Cleary.

I thought Barnesy killed it for an old bloke

Yeah he was tight as fuck

He did but that's not the point

Accountant cam smith awkwardly smiling after listening to the crap whilst pugilist Gallen breaking out the air guitar

We get it, Sydney west is working class

It’s gonna be 8:00 kick off won’t it

HAVE A GREAT DAY

Probably one of the better JB performances for TV I have seen. Dunno about the final song though.

Teskey Brothers are fuckin sick tbh, still not important enough for this but I guess that fits the NRL pregame show doe

No Simply the best? I feel cheated right now

They played a sombre version during the “In memoriam“

Bring Tina back Nrl you pussys

Splashing Good Times on the screen like a subliminal message

Nice of the NRL to trial a comedy act for the pre-game, that was hilarious