Herbie Farnworth leads Dolphins into NRL preliminary final
Farnworth's four-try spell against the Roosters has the four-year-old Dolphins 80 minutes from their first NRL grand final, though his parents won't be there to see it.
The Dolphins are 80 minutes from a first NRL grand final, needing only to beat the Roosters again to get there.
Three weeks ago,, sparking a run of four tries down his side of the field before half-time. That match-winning spell has carried Brisbane's four-year-old expansion club into a preliminary final against the same opponent.
Farnworth's parents, Richard and Joanne, will not be at the game even if their son reaches a first grand final. The Lancashire family will spend Christmas in Australia, but booked a trip to the Maldives back in January, long before the Dolphins' form made a deep finals run look likely.
Joanne Farnworth explained the timing, while club chief executive Terry Reader reflected on the rise that has brought the Dolphins to the brink of a maiden grand final.
«Unfortunately this year we’re actually in the Maldives, We booked it in January this year, we never even really gave it a thought that they’d do so well. Where we’ve come in the four years, we had a plan, we had a strategy, and it’s coming together, and now we’re 80 minutes away from a grand final,».
Reader led the Dolphins' successful bid for an NRL licence in 2021. On Monday, 4,000 people turned out to watch the club train, a measure of how quickly support has grown from a modest base in Redcliffe to a first home final at Suncorp Stadium.
A win over the Roosters would send the Dolphins into their first grand final in just their fourth season, one of the fastest rises by an expansion club in the NRL era.
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