St Helens (18) 30
T : Tommy Makinson, Lachlan Coote, Sione Mata’utia 2, Morgan Knowles
G : Lachlan Coote 5
DG :
Catalans Dragons (6) 31
T : Sam Tomkins, Julian Bousquet, Dean Whare, Gil Dudson, Sam Kasiano
G : James Maloney 5
DG : James Maloney
Team sheet
Dragons : S.Tomkins, Davies, Whare, Langi, Yaha, Maloney, Drinkwater, Dezaria, McIlorum, Bousquet, Whitley, McMeeken, Goudemand
Subs : Mourgue, Dudson, J.Tomkins, Kasiano
St Helens : Coote, Makinson, Naiqama, Percival, Grace, Welsby, Dodd, Walmsley, Roby, Lees, Mata’utia, Bentley, Knowles
Subs : Amor, Paasi, Batchelor, Wingfield
Stadium: St James’ Park
Referee: Liam Moore
Sin bin : Mark Percival, Sam Kasiano, Agnatius Paasi
It might not mean much to some people, but the Catalans Dragons have secured the Superleague League Leaders shield with a stunning comeback against St Helens at the Magic Weekend in Newcastle.
St James' Park had not been the happiest of hunting grounds for the Dracs over the years and at 30-18 down inside the last 10 minutes all looked lost here.
But we do have previous against Saints. Ask Daryl Millard and Scott Dureau.
One try back was seen as consolation, two as putting up a good fist of it. Then Super Sam Kasiano lept like Niall Quinn in his pomp (wrong sport and he was Sunderland not Newcastle, granted) to get us back to within 2 points.
Jimmy Maloney then slotted over the conversion and we were off to next point wins.
After a couple of attempts that glorious moment came when Maloney slotted it over and the boys in grey were victorious.
After taking the Challenge Cup out of the UK a couple of years ago, we now hope that we've got started on SLexit.
(That excellent pun is copywrite, don't nick it)
The play offs are a different matter and the cynics already seem to think we will get Thalered out of a grand final as the one thing the competition needs to save it is bums on seats.
That's for another day, let's enjoy the hubcap for what it is, but also as a pretty decent achievement all things considered.
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