With the midway point of the Super League season now passed the pressure is rising across the competition – but few, if any, clubs have the burden of expectation and history weighing upon them quite like St Helens.
This midsummer afternoon’s waltz in the sunshine against a woeful Huddersfield side at least released some of the strain which has been building on Saints and their head coach, Paul Rowley. Had they lost, it would have been almost unforgivable, but they were comfortable 38-6 victors.
