AN A-GRADE PERFORMANCE!
► MARTYN SADLER reflects on a magnificent victory by Leigh Leopards over St Helens
WHY
do so many people use clichés?
Perhaps because they are so often true.
And this game was a perfect example of one of the most hackneyed clichés in sport.
We have all heard many times the phrase “a game of two halves”.
And this game could have been a template for that cliché.
At half-time, Leigh looked bruised and battered. Saints had been so dominant during the first 40 minutes that the only mystery was why they weren’t already out of sight at that point.
Leigh had defended admirably, with a series of last-ditch tackled just managing to keep the World Champions out. Josh Charnley’s effort in the 27th minute to thwart Tommy Makinson as he dived for the line, with Charnley knocking the ball out of his hands, was one of the most crucial moments of the game. A Saints try at that point would have put them ten, or perhaps even twelve, points ahead and it would have been hard to imagine Leigh pulling that deficit back.