At the moment, you can directly access pages "1 2 3 4 ... last page" as a thread grows, but it would be useful to be able to access the penultimate page as well, is this something that can be done ?
Thread access page
How about go to the last page...
And then hit 'previous'!!!
Should work... 
If you jump to the last page it allows you to jump back through the last 5 pages easily. It's just like when you're at the first page and you can click on 1-5 easily.
I know !! I'm just pointing to the fact that as a thread grows, it's more interesting to directly access the last couple of pages of the thread rather than the last one only...
18 days later
nahoum actually makes a good point. if there are 10pp in a thread, it makes more sense for it to show "1...8, 9, last".
not really a big deal though.