NO ORDINARY JOE!
DAVE PARKINSONTotally Wicked Stadium, Thursday
ST HELENS 4
LEIGH LEOPARDS 16
LEIGH kept up the pressure on the top two with their first win at St Helens for more than 40 years.
Brilliant defence and two tries from Joe Ofahengaue ended a run of 14 away defeats stretching back to a 19-10 Slalom Lager Championship victory at Knowsley Road in 1982.
It was a tryless first half at the Totally Wicked Stadium and the tackling masterclass continued well into the second half as Leigh added Saints to the scalps of Wigan and Hull KR in the previous two weeks.
Despite that impressive run, the coach insisted: “I think there’s still one or two gears left in the group.
“The difference this year is we’ve been winning when players have been out. Players have come in and we’ve found a way to win games, but we haven’t been winning (with) the DNA, the identity of us as a club.