Not only was it their first senior premiership with Pirates but they got to share it together.

“There’s no better feeling really. It’s a very special moment,” Tim said.

“I suppose it’s everyone’s dream to win a premiership with your brothers.” 

All Pirates junior, this season was their first playing together, after Andrew relented to the gentle coaxing of his younger siblings and decided to pull on the black and gold again.

Still living in Sydney, he’s been travelling back of a weekend to play.

The NSW Country Eagles prop last season, and former Manly first grader was one of the reasons the Pirates scrum was so dominant.

That was where they really set the tone.

“I think we won four or five of their scrums and we won a tighthead we pushed over,” Tim said.

The first of the brothers to return, he pointed to the return a few old heads as one of the major factors in Pirates success this season.

They are also “just great mates”.        

Prop Ben Goodman also made reference to that.

“Everyone just gets on really well,” he said.

That’s translated onto the field.

“We all just dug in for each other,” he said,

Saturday was his fifth title with Pirates. He was the only of the side to have been part of their historic four-peat from 2009-2012, and was a key part of Pirates forward dominance.

“It’s probably the best Pirates forward pack I’ve been associated with, certainly the best scrum,” Goodman said. 

Limited through injury to only a couple of games last season, he said he was always going to come back and said it was great to get the title back.

“It was as good as winning the first one because it was such a tight bunch,” he said.

Skipper Conrad Starr also alluded to the camaradarie between the players.

That was best represented in their defence. They swarmed on the Blue Boars runners and really stifled their attack.

“You’ve got a bunch of guys that enjoy playing with each other,” Starr said.

“When you’re making it hard for them it makes it hard for their runners do do anything than truck it up.”

He said a few boys that had been away coming back enticed a few people back, and said “ t was a work in progress” for them heading into the season.

“We were just working on a few things at the start of the year,” he said.

The first part of the season it wasn’t quite clicking but steadily it started to, and come the finals series they were hitting their straps.

Their first half on Saturday was brilliant. After a strong start from the Blue Boars, Pirates blew them away to lead 40-12 at the break.

“It was a great feeling things were working for us,” Starr said.

They knew though they couldn’t relax.

“We’ve been in that situation before against Narrabri, things have been working well and we’ve let the foot of the throddle,” he said.

They’d been caught in both their round games but were unrelenting on Saturday.