There was a time not too long ago when meetings between St Helens and Leeds Rhinos were played out on the sport’s biggest stages. At various points over the last two decades, it was not uncommon to find these two sides playing one another in a major final. They were Super League’s market leaders.
However, if one game summed up how the times have emphatically shifted for at least one of these sides, perhaps this was it. It was a familiar tale in the end, with the Saints edging out the Rhinos to book their spot in the Challenge Cup quarter-finals – the 18th time in the last 19 meetings between the teams that St Helens have been victorious.
