^ Australian Associated Press (4 October 2014).^ "South Sydney's Issac Luke charged with dangerous throw, could miss NRL Grand Final".The crowd of 83,833 was the largest attendance at a sporting event at Stadium Australia since its 2001 reconfiguration. Combined with 1.354 million regional viewers tuning in, the game had an average audience of 3.951 million viewers, and a national peak audience of 4.650 million viewers. The 2014 NRL Grand Final was the most-watched club game in the history of rugby league, with a five-city average television audience of 2.597 million, with a peak of 3.098 million viewers. The standby referee was Ben Cummins and the standby touch judge was Brett Suttor. Steve Carrol and Jason Walsh were the touch judges, and the video referees were Bernard Sutton and Luke Phillips. It was Sutton's first grand final as referee.
It was Hayne's fourth grand final as he has officiated in the 2009, 20 grand finals. Shayne Hayne and Gerard Sutton were the match referees. Train performed as the main act, playing " Hey, Soul Sister", "Angel in Blue Jeans", and " Drops of Jupiter". Slash also performed the guitar riff from Guns N' Roses' " Sweet Child o' Mine", before closing the set with an improvised solo. The performance of the song was accompanied by a montage of the 2014 NRL season on ANZ Stadium's screens. See also: List of NRL Grand Final pre-match performancesįormer Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash performed "Bent To Fly" from World on Fire, with the accompanying vocal track by Myles Kennedy being played over loudspeaker. įullback Greg Inglis, who scored the final try of the game in the final minute of play, won his first valid premiership ring after previously featuring in the Melbourne Storm's 20 sides which had their premierships stripped from them due to salary cap breaches. Souths player Dave Tyrrell was stretchered from the field after he was knocked out in the 68th minute following a head clash with Canterbury player James Graham. He was awarded the Clive Churchill Medal, as the man of the match in the grand final. Souths' Sam Burgess played the entire match, despite fracturing his cheekbone and eye socket in contact in the opening tackle with James Graham. The final score was Souths 30, Canterbury 6. George Burgess restored Souths' lead shortly thereafter, before further tries to Kirisome Auva'a, Reynolds and Greg Inglis in the final ten minutes of the match. Canterbury equalised ten minutes into the second half through a converted try to Tony Williams. There was only one try-to South Sydney's Alex Johnston-while Adam Reynolds kicked a penalty goal to give Souths a 6–0 half-time lead. The first half of the match was a low-scoring affair. For Canterbury, captain Michael Ennis withdrew after suffering a fractured foot in the Preliminary Final against the Penrith Panthers he was replaced by Moses Mbye as hooker, and the captaincy was shared between James Graham and Trent Hodkinson.
However, they had not appeared in a Grand Final since 1971. See also: 2014 NRL season, 2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, and 2014 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season History įounded in 1908, Souths had won more premierships-20-than any other club.