 Despite the Challenge Cup Final at the time conflicting with the start of the NSWRL season, Ferguson flew across the world to score two tries before 99,801 spectators in what has been called the greatest Cup Final in history.Ferguson would later return to the NSWRL, topping the League's try-scoring list in 1988 before going on to feature in two premiership-winning Canberra Raiders sides.In the famous '89 grand final, he scored a dramatic last-minute try to send the rugby league grand final into extra time.