The player Penrith didn't think was good enough for even a paltry contract could come back to bite them big time in Sunday's grand final.Parramatta cult hero Maika Sivo played his lower grade football for the Panthers after moving to Sydney from his native Fiji.All he wanted to do was play first grade for the Panthers - and he backed up his case with a host of tries in the lower grades.But the Panthers didn't think he had what it takes to be a first grade footballer - one of the club's few errors in judgement in recent years.Crestfallen, Sivo and his manager contacted Eels coach Brad Arthur begging for a start and the rest, as they say, is history."My final season as a player was for Mounties in the NSW Cup and it was there I met Maiko," Sivo's manager Cameron Phelps told Wide World of Sports.
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