The three-peat was achieved by the Penrith Panthers in 2023, in one of the most tightly-contested competitions of the modern era.
The opening third of the season saw some incredibly close margins, with the dominant teams starting to open the gaps on their opponents towards the back end of the year.
The Dolphins won plenty of fans in their inaugural NRL year in a season that many would not have predicted to be as successful.
The Warriors were adopted as many fans' 'second-favourite' team, with many riding the 'Wahs Wave', feeling affection for the Shaun Johnson-led side that arguably endured the hardest journey in and out of the COVID-affected period.
The NRL set new records for viewership and attendance in 2023, and it was a year where so many teams were still mathematically in finals contention until the final few rounds.
There was a plethora of encounters that we had to consider when finalising our top ten games of the year. Did we get them right? Were there any matches that you would have included?
14. Grand Final - Panthers vs Broncos: Victory from the jaws of defeat
This may well go down as the greatest grand final of the modern era, which is saying something when you consider there was that golden point thriller in 2015 that also featured the Broncos.
The Broncos wound up on the wrong side of that one, and did so again in the 2023 decider as Nathan Cleary lit up the game in the final 20 minutes to pull off a miraculous comeback for the men from the foot of the mountains as they made it three premierships on the hop.
Funnily enough, it was only individual brilliance which had brought Brisbane back into the game in the first place as Ezra Mam ran on an unanswered hat-trick to put one hand on the Provan Summons trophy after being behind at halftime.
Brisbane were powerless to stop the Cleary express though with the final try scored in the dying stages of a dramatic decider.
