RED VEE DO IT AGAIN
By PHIL CAPLAN
THEY'VE taken down the sign at the Totally Wicked Stadium, ‘Don’t Write off the Saints.’
But surely it’ll be going back up again after one of the most astonishing play-off finales ever seen, as Leeds were beaten at the death at AMT Headingley.
Sixteen passes, 30 seconds – 28 of them after the hooter had sounded – six attempted tackles beaten by Harry Robertson on the right, the most audacious of no-look flick passes by Tristan Sailor, a sensational gather and offload by Matt Whitley, his second key involvement, to create an overlap left and, with quick hands, Jonny Lomax, James Bell and Jack Welsby sent Shane Wright, who had started the move, over for the winning score – elation and heartbreak in equal measure, the truest drama of the best of sport.