Wayne Bennett confirmed his standing as the NRL's greatest coach by delivering St George Illawarra a long-awaited premiership with a 32-8 grand final win over the Sydney Roosters on Sunday.

Without doubt the game's biggest underachievers since forming a joint venture in 1998, Bennett's Dragons put the stamp on two years of utter dominance and erased 31 years of torment for red and white faithful since their last title in 1979. Years of finals failure were finally extinguished as the Dragons rebounded from an 6-8 halftime deficit to blow the Roosters away with four unanswered tries after the break and finally shed monkey from back!