GOING LEFT TO WRIGHT SUCCEEDS FOR SAINTS
STEPHEN IBBETSON
LEEDS RHINOS 14 ST HELENS 16
AMT Headingley, Saturday
ST HELENS recreated the famous 'Wide to West' try 25 years on as Shane Wright scored a scarcely believable winner after the hooter had sounded.
Chris Joynt's play-off winner for Saints against Bradford in 2000, created by Dwayne West after keeping the ball alive with the final play of the game, is one of the sport's most famous tries.
And the club somehow did it again to steal a place in this year's semifinals from Leeds, who led for the vast majority of this tie and fully deserved to progress.
Paul Wellens' emotion poured out as he ran onto the pitch to celebrate the try, the under-pressure coach - out of contract after this season - perhaps given a lifeline.
"The game is about emotion and passion and I won't apologise for that," he said.