Brien, who had added the extras to Meli's try, was stretchered off after being taken out by Zeb Taia in an off-the-ball collision, with the New Zealander put on report. The deficit was narrowed to four points after Escare's try was converted by Thomas Bosc. Saints were then forced on to the back foot but kept their discipline and scored again when Makinson collected Jon Wilkin...
s play-off hopes • Bradford see off Hull; Catalan Dragons lose to Salford Wakefield 's four-match winning run was brought to an end but not before they pushed the champions, Leeds , all the way in a tense Super League derby played in front of a season's best crowd of 18,387 at Headingley. The Rhinos dominated the game for long periods, eventually winning 20-18, but were able to breathe easily only...
m pretty pleased to be sat here the winner to be honest with you. Those were really trying conditions, they really were horrendous and the game was played at a snail's pace at times. "Gareth Ellis, Joe Westerman and Danny Houghton all played their hearts for us. For Houghton to put in an 80-minute performance like that in those conditions is a pretty special effort. Our defence was superb and held...
My biggest fear was to play one season too long' Steve Menzies, the oldest man to play in Super League, will hang up his boots at the end of the season. The 39-year-old Australian second row confirmed that he will retire in October, two months before his 40th birthday. Menzies, who won the first of his 15 caps for the Kangaroos in 1994, spent 16 seasons with Manly Sea Eagles before coming to Super...
s touchline conversion five minutes from the hooter following Eden's hat-trick try secured the 22-21 win. Catalan had three tries chalked off by the video referee but they did cross four times through Kevin Larroyer, Morgan Escare and Vincent Duport (two) while Josh Hodgson joined Eden on the scoresheet for KR. An entertaining first half flew by as Rovers ran out to a commanding lead before being pegged...
s 68-10 defeat of Salford Catalan Dragons were breathing a sigh of relief on Sunday night when their scrum-half Scott Dureau was declared fine after collapsing during their 32-all draw with Widnes. The Australian was unable to take a 60th-minute penalty after complaining of double vision, the same symptom which led him to discover he had a brain tumour last September. He produced a man-of-the-match...
s match officials department, exposing the fact that allowing such a senior administrator to act as the video referee – as Stuart Cummings did on numerous occasions before standing down earlier this year – was always an accident waiting to happen. A number of other controversial and frustrating decisions over the weekend also indicated that 17 years after the introduction of the video referee to the...
s Chris Green appeared to be offside before scoring The Rugby Football league issued a statement admitting that Steve Ganson, the video referee, made a mistake near the end of the Hull derby at the Etihad Stadium. Ganson ruled that Chris Green, the Hull FC winger who scored the decisive try with two minutes remaining, in the 22-16 win over Hull KR , was not offside when chasing Danny Houghton's kick....
s scrum-half back after tumour operation while Bradford centre revisits scene of defeat that brought on heart attack After considerable initial scepticism, especially at Bradford and St Helens, the vast majority of Super League players now seem to relish the carnival atmosphere of the Magic Weekend, which is being staged for the second consecutive spring in Manchester. But for Scott Dureau and Adrian...
s rugby league team powered to within two more matches of another appearance at Wembley, in their quest for a 20th Challenge Cup. They fell behind early in their fifth-round tie at Hull KR , and lost their Australian stand-off Blake Green to a tackle that angered coach Shaun Wane. But the England full-back Sam Tomkins led the response and ended with four tries as Wigan eased into the quarter finals...
s goal made it 6-0 but Wakefield found their rhythm, aided by a run of four consecutive penalties, and hit their visitors with three tries in the second quarter to open up an 18-6 interval lead. Collis' delightful flick sent Fox over midway through the first half and Kirmond pounced for the second after the defender Zeb Taia dropped the ball from Wood's high kick. Lee Smith kicked a penalty awarded...
s pass to charge over. But McGoldrick marked his return by slipping a pass to Matty Ashurst, who went over after 14 minutes with Sneyd tagging on the conversion to fire his side ahead 6-4. Castleford regained the lead with tries from Justin Carney and Adam Milner, with Jamie Ellis landing his first conversion at the third attempt. Salford hit back with Danny Williams and Andrew Dixon going over to...