It has been a week of nostalgia at the Penrith Panthers as the club looks back at their history at Penrith Park before it is knocked down and redeveloped over the next couple of years.
The stadium has seen five premierships since hosting the Panthers beginning in 1967, with the first coming in a famous win in 1991.
On that day, Penrith came from behind to defeat a stacked Canberra Raiders side 19-12, with Royce Simmons playing a starring role.
In a week looking back at Penrith legends, Matty Johns and others have expressed shock that Simmons still hasn't been named as an NRL Hall of Famer.
Speaking on SEN's Morning Glory with Matty Johns, fellow pundit Denan Kemp first expressed his surprise at Simmons' lack of recognition in the NRL pantheon of greats.
"The fact that Royce Simmons isn't in the Rugby League Hall of Fame is a disgrace!" Kemp said on the show.
"The guy is a legend of Penrith, he's a legend of rugby league, he's the epitome of that tough 80s, early 90s player, and I just think things needs to change to get a guy like Roycey into the Hall of Fame."
Johns concurred with the opinion, saying: "Certain players don't need to be the most skillfull, you just go out there and be great at what you're good at.
"He was so tenacious, wouldn't stop, any of the dirty work that those great Penrith sides needed to do, he just did it, he was the pulse of the team."
This can be best summed up in his performance in that successful first ever Grand Final win for the Panthers, as Simmons scored twice to avenge their defeat from the year before, including the famous try off a failed short drop out to seal the win.
Johns also recalled a famous story from the game, where coach Phil Gould used Simmons as a motivator for the Panthers to come from behind: "at half-time the boys are in the sheds quite deflated... Gus [Gould] said to Roycey, 'stand there', and [he then made] every bloke walk past and grab him [to] remind yourself what he's done for this club in his final game."
That premiership success came in the final game of his NRL career, having played all 238 of his matches at the top level at the foot of the mountains.
Simmons would go on to coach Penrith for seven seasons, as well as having a short stint in the Super League as St Helens coach.
He was also an assistant coach to Tim Sheens when the Wests Tigers won an unlikely premiership in 2005.
He still remains a popular figure at the Panthers, being inducted into the clubs Hall of Fame in 2016.
He also founded the Royce Simmons Foundation to support those Alzheimer's disease, after he himself announced he was suffering from the condition in 2022.
