Thursday 5 October 2017 14:53, UK
Saturday's Super League Grand Final between Castleford and Leeds, live on Sky Sports Action, will be the 20th to hit our screens in history.
With that in mind, we thought it would be pertinent to look into the archives and break down our top 20 Grand Final moments in the history of Super League.
Moments 20 to 11 are listed below, with our top 10 to come on Friday!
Having won their first championship for 32 years in 2004, Leeds would go on to achieve phenomenal success thereafter, the likes of which the club had never seen in its history.
A second Grand Final victory arrived in 2007, and their victory over St Helens in 2008 saw the club win successive championships for the first time, not just in Super League history but since the club was founded in 1870.
Leeds' victory also marked the first time a Super League team had won both the World Club Challenge and the Grand Final in the same calendar year.
Saints took the lead at Old Trafford after a James Graham try and had destroyed the Rhinos 38-10 just a fortnight before the Grand Final, but Leeds were not to be denied and their historic success marked a significant changing of the guard.
The inaugural Grand Final of 1998 is principally remembered for one moment, and what a moment it was.
Wigan were trailing Leeds 4-0 in an intensely-attritional clash at Old Trafford played in horrendous conditions when future union convert Jason Robinson lit up the occasion.
The-then 25-year-old found himself at dummy-half near the right wing, picked up and carried infield before producing a devastating step off his left foot to sear through three tackles and dive under the sticks.
Another future code convert Andy Farrell converted before adding two second-half penalties in a 10-4 victory for the Warriors.
Last year's final saw Wigan come from four points down to beat Warrington 12-6 and subject the Wolves to their third Grand Final defeat.
Within the low-scoring contest, a real unique moment of history was made regarding Warriors wing Lewis Tierney's appearance.
The 22-year-old is the eldest son of 1998 Grand Final winner Jason Robinson and so became the first man in history to feature in a Grand Final after their father, some 18 years later.
The 2010 Grand Final saw the Wigan Warriors win their first championship since the inaugural Old Trafford showpiece in 1998, but also saw St Helens lose their fourth straight Grand Final.
Having never lost a league final before 2007, winning all four visits in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006, the Saints were stuck in a rut of perpetual heartbreak by the end of the 2000s, losing to the Rhinos in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
The 2010 final at least saw a change in opposition in the Warriors, but despite plenty of possession, Saints lacked the clinical edge of Wigan and were made to pay.
Martin Gleeson crossed twice for Wigan as the Saints players were left crushed with disappointment once again. Such was the manner of Wigan's triumph (12 years in the making) and Saints' loss (four in a row), rarely has there been emotions of such a scale at the final whistle.
Two years before his highly controversial actions to close out the 2002 Grand Final (more on that to come), St Helens captain Chris Joynt turned in one of the great individual Old Trafford performances to make it successive championship wins for the Saints.
The forward crossed for two tries himself and was the architect of their opener after a sumptuous offload put Sean Hoppe over the whitewash.
Joynt was the driving force in a 29-16 victory from the second-row, and was awarded the Harry Sunderland trophy for his superb display.
The Great Britain, England and Ireland international remains one of just five men to have won the award twice, having also earned it in 1993.
In 2009, the Rhinos headed to Old Trafford looking to do what no side had ever managed before or since: win three Super League titles on the bounce.
The match was tight for its entirety with the winning score from Lee Smith not arriving until the 72nd minute, and it came about as a result of a controversial decision.
All four tries in the contest were referred to the Video Referee, and though Smith did appear to come from an offside position to latch onto Danny McGuire's kick, his score was allowed.
It meant Sean Long and Lee Gilmour were denied fairytale send-offs, but for the Rhinos it was a remarkable achievement and one we are unlikely to see again for some time.
A year after Jimmy Lowes and the Bradford Bulls were left feeling robbed against St Helens in 2002, they were back in another Grand Final, and much like their previous success in 2001, Wigan were to be the victims of their fury.
Just as in that comprehensive victory over the Warriors two years previous, the Bulls headed into the final snorting fire after a controversial loss to the Saints in their previous final.
The 2003 encounter was to prove a much tighter affair, however, and indeed Wigan under Mike Gregory, who would tragically die of a neurological disease just four years later at the age of 43, led 6-4 at the break.
Tries in the second period from Stuart Reardon and Shontayne Hape put the Bulls on course, before Lowes went over to confirm the result at 25-12 in the very last match of his career. It had to be him.
In 2005 Bradford made their fifth successive Grand Final and were again paired with Leeds, who had beaten them the year before.
Bradford had endured their worst season in Super League history, winning just 10 of their opening 20 matches with the undoubted lowpoint a 66-4 humiliation by St Helens at home.
Inspired by skipper Jamie Peacock, they recovered to go on an eight-game winning streak, ending the regulation season in third position before winning all three play-off games to reach Old Trafford, including a memorable win over Saints.
All the while prospective opponents Leeds had their feet up but the final saw a battling Bulls performance claim an unlikely 15-6 win, and in doing so become the first side in history to finish outside of the top two and win the championship.
"Sometimes when you're on a destiny, it's not about tactics, it's about belief," Bulls coach Brian Noble said afterwards.
Heading into the 2006 Grand Final, St Helens had claimed the Challenge Cup and League Leaders' Shield in a marvellous campaign.
Only Bradford (2003) had ever won the treble in the Super League years before, and standing in Saints' way from joining that elite group was Hull FC, featuring in their first and as yet only Grand Final.
The Black and Whites put up a brave resistance but in the end an exceptional St Helens side claimed the championship after a 26-4 victory.
The treble has only been won once since that final in 2006, as the Leeds Rhinos claimed it in 2015.
The 2007 final featured St Helens for the second year in succesion but this time they were not to have it all their own way.
Like in 2006, the Saints destroyed all before them en route to consecutive Challenge Cup and League Leaders' Shield crowns. A successive treble beckoned.
Their opponents Leeds had finished second to St Helens in the league table and had been beaten by them in their Qualifying semi-final. What's more, St Helens had never lost in a Grand Final in four attempts: 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006.
As such, few gave the Rhinos a chance but they steamrolled past the Saints with four second-half tries, wing Scott Donald scoring the pick of them with a magnificent effort on the way to a scarcely believable 33-6 win.
Watch the Grand Final between Castleford Tigers and Leeds Rhinos on Saturday. Coverage begins on Sky Sports Arena at 5pm and on Sky Sports Main Event from 6pm.
