And by Sunday evening, that was, if anything, an understatement.
Beyond remarkable was Taylan May’s reprisal of the most famous try in Wests Tigers history with Benji Marshall sitting right there on the sideline at Leichhardt Oval.
Twenty years on and celebrating the 2005 grand final triumph over the Cowboys, the Tigers wore the same kit. May’s pass came, as it did two decades ago, with a few minutes left in the first half. He even came close to the same patch of left-edge turf as Marshall, with a tad more loop and lob than the Tigers coach in his pomp.
Eighteen hours earlier, Mark Nawaqanitawase instead rolled out the finest flick pass you’d ever hope to be on the end of.
The rugby convert’s audacious, all-or-nothing plays are now landing more often than not, with still less than a full NRL season to his name.
After Nawaqanitawase’s last show-stopping piece of bona fide brilliance – that hopping, skipping and kicking try against Canterbury in May – Trent Robinson made the point that rugby’s less risk-aversive nature encourages the code’s players to try their hand more than rugby league.
The Roosters coach was right. You’d be amazed how many NRL players, not to mention the next generation coming through, have these sorts of skills in their kitbag.
Parramatta put plenty on show themselves, as aside from Nawaqanitawase, the Roosters handling went to water.
South Sydney’s Tyrone Munro and Manly’s Tolu Koula scored fine long-range tries as two of the game’s most electric young talents.
For all the upheaval of their past 12 months, Daly Cherry-Evans and Ben Hunt celebrated significant 350-game milestones as two of the game’s oldest stagers.
So regularly rolling from controversy to outrage, indignation to mea culpas and then rinsing and repeating within the space of 48 hours, it was kind of nice to swing from one stunning moment to the next for a change.
Monday morning dawned and the roses were right there to be savoured.