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BRETT Kenny has one of those never before, never again kind of grand final records.
He admits it was not on his mind when he ran out for his third successive grand final in 1983, looking for his third successive two-try game to round out the record.
Three straight grand finals, two tries in each.
"Never even thought about it to be honest," he said.
"Just ran out there to play. It just happened that way."
Watch the video above of Kenny's amazing feat - all six tries!
While nobody will ever forget the two tries against Newtown in 1981, Kenny remembers all four tries against Manly in 1982-83 but even he can't quite remember which game what try was scored in.
He can describe all four, then says, "I'm not sure what year they were, but they were the four tries."
Kenny played 10 more years for the Eels, and in a sign of changing times he played his last game on a Sunday and got up the next morning to take a call, his first day in retirement, from a radio station.
There was no Mad Monday.
"They were quite surprised I wasn't home," Kenny said.
"I was working with Berri fruit juices at the time and I was driving a truck, driving the daily juice.
"Back then that's what you did."
Kenny retired with a club record 265 games and a club record 110 tries, both of which lasted the best part of 20 years before being broken within 12 months of each other.
By then Kenny was back involved in the game, having coached Windsor Wolves to a premiership and believing he was on his way to a future NRL head coaching job until, well, things didn't turn out.
"When I was at Penrith I thought this is where I might go on, Parramatta's NSW Cup, I thought maybe this is the opportunity, but it didn't happen there and I thought maybe it's not to be.
"I'd still like to be involved."
He has drifted from coaching job to coaching job, dabbling in media before that, the reality being that when he pulled over Wednesday to talk about three glorious grand final efforts he was selling poker machines, and poker machine parts, for Independent Gaming.
"I'm enjoying it," he said.
"But if something [in coaching] came up I'd certainly have a look at it.
"I just love the game."
His gift was a record that might not stand forever, but long enough that we won't ever see it broken.
"A lot of people say it will probably never be broken," he said.
"The way the game is now it's difficult for sides to play in two grand finals in a row let alone three.
"I guess it's a record that I might have for a long time."
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