St Helens 41-22 Huddersfield Wellens among try scorers as he equals Super League record St Helens beat Huddersfield by the convincing margin of 41-22 at Langtree Park on Friday night as their skipper, Paul Wellens, led from the front to end the visitors five-match winning run in the Super League. Wellens was among the try scorers on his record-equalling 419th Super League appearance, playing in his...
Bulls have now conceded 262 points in five games Castleford dominate Wakefield to move third on the table Bradford Bulls ' hopes of avoiding relegation look increasingly forlorn after nine different Huddersfield try scorers inflicted a 54-16 defeat on them. Francis Cummins' depleted side have now conceded 262 points in their last five games, and they were little match for a Giants team whose form is...
London Broncos 16-30 Huddersfield Giants Paul Anderson praised his Huddersfield side's battling qualities after the Giants dug in to win at The Hive. The visitors lost full-back Jake Connor and winger Jermaine McGillvary to injury in a bruising first half, which ended with Huddersfield trailing 16-10. But the Giants responded in style after the break, running in 20 unanswered points en route to a fourth...
New head coach wants Sunderland-style revival Salford's Adrian Morley seeks birthday treat against Hull KR Joe Grima, the new London Broncos head coach, is hoping his team can follow the example of Premier League survivors Sunderland and climb towards survival from the bottom of the Super League table. Grima, who takes charge of the Londoners for the first time in Saturday's game against Huddersfield,...
Bulls overturn deficit in win to leapfrog London Broncos Wakefield Trinity also made a comeback with victory at Hull Bradford Bulls celebrated their second momentous victory in consecutive Sundays at Odsal, following a Challenge Cup win against the Catalan Dragons by stunning Warrington to regain the last two of the six points they were docked in February for entering administration. The Bulls overturned...
Rhinos see off Salford 32-4 and Tigers beat Warrington Huddersfield defeat Wakefield, Broncos go down at Hull Wigan recorded the same 84-6 scoreline as in last season's Easter Monday thrashing of Hull KR when they brushed aside the bottom club, Bradford, despite resting several key players. It completed a highly productive Easter weekend for the coach, Shaun Wane, following the comprehensive Good Friday...
Warrington's Chris Hill dominant in 44-6 defeat of Widnes Castleford beat Wakefield, Huddersfield defeat Salford Shaun Wane, the Wigan Warriors coach, could not hide his delight after masterminding the first defeat of the year for their arch-rivals St Helens . The Super League champions saved their best performance of the season for their biggest match as they ended Saints' 100% record with a 33-14...
Hull 30-6 Huddersfield Hull added to the problems Huddersfield are experiencing in handling their new status as one of Super League's prize scalps with a comprehensive six-try victory that will send them across the city for next Thursday's derby in much better heart. Both teams had been knocked out of the Challenge Cup last week by late drop goals but Hull are now in a respectable fifth in the Super...
Saints beat Huddersfield 17-16 in Challenge Cup fourth round Leeds Rhinos await after huge 60-6 victory over Wakefield St Helens rode their luck to claim a controversial 17-16 win at Huddersfield in the fourth round of the Challenge Cup, but their good fortune ran out in the fifth-round draw that followed. The Saints were handed an even tougher away tie in Yorkshire in the last 16, against a Leeds...
Brown must choose between young guns or experience Huddersfield have struggled in early season games Paul Anderson made his former boss Nathan Brown suffer in his first season as the coach of St Helens, so Sunday's televised Challenge Cup tie at Huddersfield offers the Australian an obvious opportunity for revenge. Brown does not see it that way, but his Saints have started the season in such scintillating...
Huddersfield 14-33 Warrington Trailing 14-4 at half-time, Warrington were staring at a fourth defeat in seven matches that would have raised real questions about their ability to mount a credible challenge this season following the loss of such totems as Lee Briers and Adrian Morley. So it is no exaggeration to suggest that their second-half performance, in scoring 29 points without reply, could prove...
Catalan Dragons 30-14 Huddersfield Catalan Dragons broke their duck at the sixth attempt with an impressively robust 30-14 victory over the Huddersfield Giants to ease fears that Super League's successful French experiment could be an unintended victim of the reintroduction of relegation. The Dragons were one of two teams, with the London Broncos, who had lost their first five fixtures, a wretched...
• Dragons without a point from first five games • Jeff Lima suspended for visit of Huddersfield There is no crisis at Catalan Dragons but it would be "catastrophic" if they were to be relegated from the Super League, according to their chief executive, Christophe Jouffret. The Dragons go into Saturday's home game against Huddersfield, only their second in Perpignan so far this year, without a point...
s Kevin Sinfield and Huddersfield's Danny Brough, failed with late drop-goal attempts as the game ended with a dramatic 12-12 tie at the John Smith's Stadium. Huddersfield, who had beaten the Rhinos in their past five meetings, will feel the more aggrieved after dominating the game for long periods and having four tries disallowed by the video referee, Richard Silverwood. The Giants' coach, Paul Anderson,...
s league leaders Huddersfield 22-20 in the shock of the Super League season so far. "It's like Morecambe and Wise said, it took them 25 years to be an overnight success," said the former Great Britain forward, reflecting the steady development over the last four seasons that now has his Widnes squad ready to compete with the big guns of the competition. "We've been steadily getting better and learning...
s a bit of a freak as an athlete and a player," said Daryl Powell, the former Great Britain player whose appointment as coach of his hometown club midway through last season has triggered such a transformation. "He'd just come off with cramp not long earlier, so to go back on and do that took some doing. I thought he was a very good player last season, but he's going to be even better this year. We...
s move to union may be a blow to rugby league, but it's not time to sound the alarm bells yet; and the Auckland Nines may have set a blueprint that benefits the sport 1) Life after Sam Oh woe, oh misery, Sam Burgess has crossed to the dark side, rugby league is doomed. There has been plenty of that over the last couple of weeks since rumours of Burgess's desire to switch codes emerged from Sydney,...
s time for the players, who were also volubly unimpressed by the initial proposals, and even us media miseries to follow their example. It's actually pretty easy to sell the new concept as a major improvement on what has gone before. At least the bloated top eight play-offs, which have done such insidious damage to Super League's credibility for the last few years – Danny Brough's admission that Huddersfield...
seriously breached' team's disciplinary rules • Huddersfield's Brett Ferres replaces second-row England's preparations for the World Cup took a further hit on Tuesday night when Gareth Hock was thrown out of the squad by officials following a series of "serious breaches" of discipline. The forward, who has been replaced in Steve McNamara's 24-man squad by Huddersfield's Brett Ferres, played in England...
Shield • Brough controversially left out of England World Cup squad Danny Brough was crowned Super League's Man of Steel in Manchester on Monday night, fuelling the controversy over his omission from the England World Cup squad. Brough has played the most eyecatching role in Huddersfield's most successful season for generations, as they won the League Leaders' Shield for finishing top of the Super...