Almost three years to the day since the World Club Challenge was last played, NRL premiers Penrith square off with Super League champs St Helens on February 18 in a mouth-watering showdown for international bragging rights 🏆
Making the job tougher for the ’91 Panthers was the fact the WCC was played just 10 days after their historic grand final victory over Canberra, while stars Mark Geyer and Brad Fittler were also missing.
The Panthers’ next shot at the WCC crown came in 2004 when they travelled to Huddersfield to take on a powerful Bradford side featuring English greats Jamie Peacock, Stuart Fielden, Leon Pryce and classy Kiwis Lesley Vainikolo, Logan Swann and Shontayne Hape. Sattler, who famously cut down Todd Byrne in a memorable cover tackle in the decider, had moved on to Wests Tigers, while Girdler was nursing an ankle injury that would keep him out of the first three rounds of 2004.
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