Significance
- Manly became the first Australian team in six years to win the World Club Challenge, since the Sydney Roosters defeated St Helens RLFC in 2003. They are only the fourth side from Australia to have won a final on British soil in the history of the event – Brisbane Broncos (1992), Melbourne Storm (2000, 2010, 2013) and Sydney Roosters (1976, 2003) being the other three.
- Manly won their first World Club Challenge at their second attempt having lost the 1987 World Club Challenge to Wigan.
- Failure to defend their World Club Challenge title from 2008 meant the Leeds Rhinos' first loss in the 2009 competitive season. They would have been the first club to have gained two consecutive titles had they won.
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Famous quotes containing the word significance:
“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?—to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have—very largely if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)
“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)