There may be only about seven miles between them off the field, but Jai Field and Bevan French certainly made the gap between Leigh and Wigan feel far bigger than that here. The Warriors’ talismanic Australian duo have so often been the answer in key moments for the club in recent years, and how that proved to be the case again here.
Newly promoted Leigh delivered pre-match, with their biggest Super League crowd treated to a pyrotechnics display. But when the main event started it was Field and French, as they so often do, who stole the show as Wigan registered their third successive win before the Good Friday derby with St Helens next week.
