St Helens open up gap at top of Super League with impressive win over Wigan

19 April 2019 04:30
• Wigan 10-36 St Helens• Tom Davies breaks leg on miserable day for WarriorsSt Helens underlined the growing chasm between themselves and the reigning champions, Wigan, by opening up a four-point lead at the top of the Super League while also consigning the Warriors to an unwanted piece of history. With only three wins from their opening 11 games, this is the joint-worst start from any defending champions in the competition’s history, emulating Leeds’ horrendous start of 2016. Then the Rhinos laboured to a 10th-placed finish at the end of the regular season, and on this showing it is hard to imagine the Warriors, now joint-bottom, doing better.Glimpses of their qualities were too few and far between in front of the biggest crowd of the season, and with uncertainty over their next coach following Shaun Edwards’ decision not to lead the Warriors in 2020, all is not well with one of the game’s most famous clubs, who lost the wing Tom Davies to a suspected double leg-break here. Related: Castleford hold off Wakefield charge to stay in Super League top three Continue readingread full article

Source: TheGuardian