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 The game of the weekend got round nineteen of Super League
XXX underway as fourth placed St Helens faced a Leigh Leopards side who were
holding third place in the table in a battle of two form sides with the prize
being to edge closer to Wigan in second.
It is the first meeting between the two sides in 2025, Leigh
winning two out of the three meetings last season, but Leigh haven’t beaten St
Helens, in St Helens, since 1982.
The home side were slight favourites with the bookies, handicapped
by four points on the coupon as they looked to move past Leigh and into third
place, two points behind the Warriors.
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 Three rounds after St Helens heavily defeated the Leeds Rhinos
the two sides met at Headingley with the Rhinos seeking revenge and the points
to keep in touch with Wigan and Hull KR ahead of them., Saints knowing that a
win would lift them into third above Leigh and the Rhinos.
Leeds were the favourites with the bookies, handicapped by
six points on the coupon but many pundits thought that this game was too close
to call and the crowd were all set for a cracker of an encounter.
This is the fourth meeting between the two sides in 2025,
Saints with a 2-1 lead thanks to wins in the Challenge Cup and a round fifteen
encounter, the Rhinos winning the Magic weekend game in Newcastle.
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The battle for the top six was the motivator for both sides
in a round seventeen match-up between sixth placed Hull FC and a St Helens side
who travelled east highly motivated to maintain their fifth spot.
A loss for the home side could see them usurped in the six
by Wakefield Trinity should they record a win over the Catalans Dragons in West
Yorkshire in the late afternoon kick-off.
A win for St Helens would lift them above Leeds Rhinos and into fourth on points difference, and more importantly, it would put them six
points clear of the side in seventh spot, and the bookies made the visitors slight
favourites and handicapped them by two points on the coupon.
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An unchanged St Helens side, fresh from their confidence
boosting win over the Leeds Rhinos last time out, were at home again to face a
Salford Red Devils side who have had another tumultuous week on the
administration side of their business.
Losing by an average score of 42-6 so far in 2025, Salford were
given a forty-eight-point start on the coupon in a game that they could not
possibly win, and which would be a matter of how many they could keep the red
vee to scoring.
A win for Saints would secure their fifth spot and lift them
to within a point of the Leigh Leopards, ready to pounce on fourth spot should
Adrian Lam’s side slip up again.
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Leeds Rhinos were looking for a sixth consecutive victory as
they travelled to the Totally Wicked Stadium for a clash with a St Helens side
who have had an indifferent season so far in 2025.
The Rhinos were unchanged from last week’s demolition of the
Warrington Wolves while Saints were without impressive newcomer George Whitby
and Curtis Sironen who both miss out after picking up injuries in the big win
over Salford Red Devils last weekend.
The Rhinos were slight favourites with the bookies, handicapped
by two points on the coupon, as they looked to repeat their Magic Weekend win
and take a two to one lead in the third of this season’s four games between the
two sides.
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 St Helens were looking for their fifth consecutive Challenge
Cup final win in the competition which they have made their own and all that
stood in their way was their arch-rivals, Wigan Warriors, who were seeking their
first ever win in their first ever final.
Both sides won their divisions with unbeaten records and
without conceding a point, while Saints beat London and York in the quarter and
semi-finals, Wigan eliminated Cardiff and Leeds on their road to Wembley.
The bookies favoured a St Helens win, despite Wigan
currently leading the women’s Super League table by a point over their archrivals.
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 The league leaders Hull KR took on St Helens in round
thirteen knowing that only a win was likely to keep them at the top of table as
Wigan Warriors kicked off at the same time against the 2025 whipping boys
Salford Red Devils needing two points to draw level.
St Helens came into the game on the back of two victories
and were looking to make it three in a row after a rocky period, the bookies
though favoured the home side and gave the visitors a six point start on the
coupon suggesting that the Robins might not have everything their own way.
Hull KR have been victorious on the last three occasions
that the sides have met including a 20-10 win in the round four match earlier
this year and you have to go back as far as August 2023 to find the last Saints
win.
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It was the clash of the embattled coaches as sixth placed St
Helens, under the precarious coaching of Paul Wellens, took on seventh placed
Catalans Dragons under the stewardship of an embattled Steve McNamara.
The winners would be up to fifth, or potentially fourth, and
it was St Helens who were the favourites to win with the bookies as they were
handicapped by twelve points on the coupon but both sides were looking to
bounce back from consecutive losses.
Saints were victors in the round three meeting at the end of
March by a single point, but honours were shared last year with a game apiece,
the Dragons winning the four games before that for five victories in the last
seven over the Saints.
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 The final game of the opening day of Magic was the most mouth-watering
fixture of the afternoon as St Helens took on the Leeds Rhinos with fourth
place up for grabs for the victor, the two sides starting the game separated by
just points difference on the league table.
Saints were slight favourites with the bookies, but this was
a different Rhinos side to the one which St Helens knocked out of the Challenge
Cup by 22-14 a couple of months ago, but the Rhinos were seeking their
first win over Saints in two years.
St Helens brought back skipper Jonny Lomax after he was left
out of the side for the last three games.
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 It’s not often that a clash between Warrington Wolves and St
Helens is referred to as a ‘mid table battle’ but in round nine of Super league
XXX, that is exactly what it was as fifth played ninth in a Thursday night
encounter.
Warrington were slight favourites on the coupon with a two-point
handicap, indicating that even the bookies were struggling to decide which way
it would go, and who would emerge with the crucial two points at the end of the
night.
A win for the home side would lift them into seventh spot,
while a win would put Saints into third, and a win by thirty-seven or more
would see them into second, at least overnight.
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The oldest derby in the game was sold-out as Wigan Warriors
faced St Helens as the teams in third and fourth spot, tied together on ten
league points, went into battle for the chance to go into second spot ahead of
Hull FC who lost out in the earlier Hull derby.
Wigan had been installed as favourites with the bookies, and
they were handicapped by ten points on the coupon but with the rain falling steadily
in front of a massive crowd, there was little to choose between the two sides
with the conditions as a leveller.
Wigan have been victorious in the last two games between the
sides, the last St Helens win was over a year ago in round six of 2024.
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A place in the semi-final draw alongside Catalans Dragons,
Leigh Leopards and Hull KR awaited the victors of the last quarter final match-up
between the Warrington Wolves and St Helens in a game at the Halliwell-Jones Stadium
where the bookies and the neutrals were struggling to pick a favourite.
Warrington, currently trailing Saints on points difference
in the league table, were light favourites with the bookies and were
handicapped by two points on the coupon against a Saints side in fourth place
in the league table.
Saints have lost the last five games straight against
Warrington, including the game just a fortnight ago when the sides were separated
by just two points, and Warrington knocked Saints out of the cup at this same
stage last season.
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Ninth placed Catalans Dragons entered round six of Super
League XXX looking or their third win of the season as they faced a St Helens
side who arrived in the south of France in the knowledge that a win would lift
them into third spot in the table ahead of the Warrington Wolves side who took
two points off them last week.
The bookmakers were struggling to pick a winner but handicapped
St Helens by two points on the handicap coupon for what promised, on paper at
least, to be a battle royal between two sides looking to escape mid-table
mediocrity.
The home side had Tommy Makinson and Theo Fages back in
their line up while Saints started with Joe Batchelor and Moses Mbye in their
thirteen, the latter swapping places with Daryl Clark from last weeks starting
line-up.
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Leeds hadn’t beaten St Helens for over two years in all
competitions, and it is ten seasons since the Rhinos last victory over tonight’s
hosts in the Challenge Cup, Leeds exiting the competition in round four last
season when they lost at Headingley by 20-6.
Despite form and history being heavily in the home sides
favour, they were only handicapped by twelve points on the coupon, the bookies firmly
favouring a home win but not by the margin that many of those travelling over
the Pennines feared.
Both coaches named strong sides for the clash which was
broadcast live on The Sportsman with a place in Monday evenings quarter final
draw the prize on offer for the eventual victors.
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Starting the round as the top two, the only two
remaining one-hundred-percent sides, St Helens and Hull KR had a round four
date at the Totally Wicked Stadium with the honour of ending the weekend at the
top of the pile, the prize on offer.
St Helens were slight favourites for the win with the
bookies, handicapped six points on the coupon, but the Robins were happy to be
given the underdogs tags in a game that they will have prioritised since the
announcement of the fixture lists.
A big blow for the visitors was the loss of their kicker
Rhyse Martin who could be out for up to four months after sustaining a thigh
injury requiring surgery, but they were boosted by the return of talisman Mikey
Lewis.
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The opening chapter of an historic day for rugby league, which would later see Wigan and Warrington meet in Las Vegas, got underway in Wakefield as Trinity took on a St Helens side who were looking to return to the top of the table.
The odds were firmly on the visitors side for the win, with Wakefield being given a twelve point start on the handicap coupon, but most commentators thought that this was on the conservative side given the free-scoring nature of the 2025 version of St Helens.
A home win would lift Wakefield into the top four, a loss would see them end the round in eighth.
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A win of any description would be enough to ensure that St Helens ended round two at the top of Super League, but stood in their way was Danny McGuire’s Castleford Tigers who were themselves looking to get the first points of their 2025 campaign.
The Tigers were given a twenty point start on the handicap coupon by the bookies who couldn’t see anything other than a Saints win based on their commanding demolition of Salford last weekend coupled with a low expectation of the Tigers despite their golden point loss to the much-fancied Robins last time out.
Castleford needed to stop Saints getting on a roll, because if the did then the likelihood was that they would be on the end of a hiding.
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The most talked about game of the round, for all the wrong reasons, was the game selected by the BBC for free to air broadcast as St Helens played host to an Academy line-up from the Salford Red Devils who were seemingly trying to prove a point to the games administration.
The lowest shirt number in the Salford starting thirteen was twenty-seven with all thirteen selected starters unlikely to get another game in 2025 once their takeover paperwork is rubber stamped, much to the embarrassment of their fans.
Salford had a fifty-two-point start on the coupon and were expected to take a heavy beating as they selected their side under a restricted salary cap which included just three players on the substitutes bench, two of which were rumoured as unlikely to take the field in the eighty minutes.
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St Helens only made the play-off by virtue of a better points difference than the Catalans Dragons which meant that after a poor season by their very high standards they were the favourites with the bookies to drop out of the race for Old Trafford at the first hurdle as they took on a Warrington Wolves side who were still smarting from not making the top two.
Should Warrington meet expectations and secure the victory then they would set up a visit to Hull KR next weekend, whereas as win for St Helens would see them travel to Wigan to face the old enemy, the Warriors, for a place in the Grand Final.
It promised to be an intense battle.
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Hull Kingston Rovers were massive bookies favourites for the win as the league leaders travelled to the Totally Wicked Stadium to take on Paul Wellens St Helens side who were kept scoreless by arch-rivals Wigan Warriors last weekend and who have only registered two win in their last eight outings.
Hull KR are top of the table and a win would almost certainly mean that they would end the weekend ahead of the rest of the field whereas a loss for Saints would plunge them further into crisis and drag them deeper into the fight for a play off place with four other sides.
There was plenty to play for in the sunshine on Merseyside.
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