Player ratings: Iconic tackle's painful flipside

The Panthers person gone back-to-back with a sizzling show to enactment the Eels to the sword.

The crippled was done astatine half-time, with Penrith yet crowned champions with a 28-12 win.

So who were the studs and who were the duds?

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Wide World of Sports runs the regularisation implicit each 34 players' contributions.

PENRITH PANTHERS

1. Dylan Edwards

Should person booked himself a World Cup spot with an outstanding game, creating 2 tries and coming up with a marvellous try-saving tackle… and moving implicit 275 tally metres.

Rating: 9

'Words can't explicate it'

2. Charlie Staines

Had fewer chances with the shot but nailed the 1 that did travel his way.

Rating: 6.5

3. Izack Tago

Created 2 tries for his winger To'o successful a good centre's game. Showed maturity and bully hands.

Rating: 7

4. Stephen Crichton

Scored the opening effort with a burst of gait but came up with 1 of the game's large plays, redeeming a definite effort to Sivo.

Rating: 7.5

Crichton opens scoring for Panthers

5. Brian To'o

Confirmed his standing arsenic the game's fig 1 winger with an awesome display, scoring 2 tries and moving for 250 positive metres.

Rating: 8

6. Jarome Luai

Not his finest crippled but did his occupation and played a cardinal relation successful 1 of To'o's tries.

Rating: 6.5

7. Nathan Cleary

The conductor of the Penrith orchestra - ticker the highlights and you'll find him progressive successful conscionable astir each effort scored.

Rating: 9.5

Cleary explains 91 jersey value

8. Moses Leota

Played lone astir fractional the crippled but near the Eels battered and bruised with his hard hitting and fearless shot running.

Rating: 7.5

14. Mitch Kenny

Did the aboriginal spadework astatine dummyhalf earlier being replaced by Koroisau arsenic helium crippled opened up.

Rating: 5

10. James Fisher-Harris

Led the Panthers battalion successful yardage arsenic helium does conscionable astir each week and a stone successful the centre of defence.

Rating: 8

11. Viliame Kikau

The large antheral was reasonably quiescent by his standards, often utilized arsenic a decoy runner to suck successful defenders.

Rating: 5.5

12. Liam Martin

Played his strongest crippled successful galore weeks, causing the Eels defence plentifulness of problems connected the close borderline and topped the tackle count.

Rating: 8

13. Isaah Yeo

The Panther with the monolithic centrifugal made the hard yards and was a large nexus betwixt the halves and the extracurricular men.

Rating: 8

9. Api Koroisau

Didn't tally overmuch due to the fact that helium didn't person to - conscionable shovelled the shot to his shot wizards and they did the rest.

Rating: 6

15. Scott Sorensen

A apical crippled from the bench, adding enthusiasm and scoring a important try.

Rating: 6

Super sub dives connected cleanable Cleary grubber

16. Spencer Leniu

Like Sorensen, gave impetus erstwhile thrown into the fray and ran for implicit 100 metres successful speedy time.

Rating: 7

17. Jaeman Salmon

Only had 1 tally successful a little 12 infinitesimal stint arsenic a HIA replacement but did thing wrong.

Rating: 3

PARRAMATTA EELS

1. Clint Gutherson

Put nether loads of unit but led the Eels good connected a pugnacious nighttime and jagged a try.

Rating: 7

2. Maika Sivo

Ran for plentifulness of metres but bombed the effort that could person brought the Eels backmost into the crippled with mediocre hands.

Rating: 6

Sivo drops it with try-line begging

3. Will Penisini

Had a large finals bid but was hardly sighted arsenic the Panthers strangled his team's attack.

Rating: 5

4. Bailey Simonsson

Had fewer chances and past came disconnected with a rib wounded midway done the 2nd half.

Rating: 3

Bailey Simonsson of the Eels leaves the tract injured aft being connected the incorrect extremity of an astonishing tackle by Dylan Edwards. (Getty)

5. Waqa Blake

Made little errors than past clip the teams met but was incapable to marque immoderate interaction successful attack.

Rating: 5

6. Dylan Brown

Ran the shot good but was targeted a mates of times by the Panthers with their planned moves successful attack.

Rating: 6

7. Mitchell Moses

Couldn't get his moving crippled going but kicked good successful an effort to rotation backmost the relentless Panthers tide.

Rating: 6.5

Viliame Kikau of the Panthers is tackled by Mitchell Moses of the Eels during the 2022 NRL Grand Final lucifer betwixt the Penrith Panthers and the Parramatta Eels astatine Accor Stadium connected October 02, 2022 successful Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Jason McCawley/Getty Images) (Getty)

8. Reagan Campbell-Gillard

Kept good contained by the Panthers' large men successful the trenches, making conscionable 82 metres from 12 runs.

Rating: 6

9. Reed Mahoney

Topped his team's tackle number - arsenic ever - but made conscionable 2 runs - his squad needed more.

Rating: 6

10. Junior Paulo

Another Eels tally instrumentality whose numbers were kept good down by the reddish and achromatic partition connected the night.

Rating: 6

11. Shaun Lane

A standout successful the finals with his passing game, helium didn't negociate a azygous offload - different denotation of the ruthless quality of Penrith's defence.

Rating: 5.5

12. Isaiah Papali'i

Worked hard passim and laid connected his team's archetypal effort for Gutherson but missed a worrying 12 tackles.

Rating: 5

Luai's evident footwear connected Eels star

17. Marata Niukore

Made conscionable 4 runs for small yardage and similar galore of his team-mates, couldn't find his awesome signifier of caller weeks.

Rating: 4

13. Ryan Matterson

Made much metres than immoderate Eels guardant - a good effort coming disconnected the bench. Gave his all.

Rating: 7

14. Nathan Brown

Was brought into the Eels' squad to beryllium the enforcer but good out-gunned by the assertive Panthers battalion and his inclusion added nothing.

Rating: 4

15. Jake Arthur

Got conscionable 5 minutes connected the large signifier but was rewarded with a effort successful a infinitesimal he'll ne'er forget.

Rating: 2

16. Oregon Kaufusi

Another 'invisible' Eels guardant who was good unopen down by the Panthers, moving a specified 5 times for 46 metres.

Rating: 4

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