With the pain of two consecutive grand final defeats still burning, the Melbourne Storm will get a shot at redemption against the 2025 premiership winners Broncos in Round 3 of the 2026 season.
The Grand Final almost twenty years after their 2006 Grand Final turned to be one of the great deciders of the modern era in October.
The Broncos and Storm will square off just three rounds into the 2026 season with another epic contest in the making.
The NRL Grand Final rematch will be on Friday, March 20 at AAMI Park in Melbourne.
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If the Storm need any extra inspiration, they can happily reflect about Round 3, 2025 when they defeated the Panthers 30-24 in the rematch of the '24 grand final that had a chaotic start, with superstar halfbacks Nathan Cleary ruled out seven minutes into the game with a concussion.
In 2024 it was the Panthers taking charge and slaughtering the Broncos 34-12 in the rematch of one of the greatest grand finals known as the 2023 decider.
Round 3 being the showdown between historic organisations that is the Broncos and Storm that has been the standard for how organisations execute success in the modern era looms as a Friday night to do nothing but watch the game.