What time will the 2017 NRL Grand Final kick-off? The Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys will meet tonight to decide the fate of this year’s premiership.
Update: Kick-off was at 7:33pm AEDT.
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The official scheduled kick-off time for tonight’s match is 7:15pm AEDT, but official NRL kick-off times are a bit like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and pre-season hype around the New Zealand Warriors – at a certain point in life, you just stop believing.
The pre-game extravaganza compared with Channel Nine’s lead-in TV coverage invariably pushes the start of the match back a few minutes, and sometimes a fair bit more than a few.
All three State of Origin matches as well as the Grand Final every year reliably have delayed kick-offs, which inevitably turns into a fun sideshow guessing game for fans of the sport.
So what’s your tip? We’ve got a poll below, toss in your predicted start time and we’ll gather up the results.
Update: 7:30pm is the leading tip from those who voted in our poll!
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