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S haun Wane has a problem. A good one. Having named George Williams as his new captain, the England head coach will upset plenty of people when he picks his England team to face France at Warrington on Saturday afternoon. He won’t be fielding one of Super League’s form half-back combinations or one of the units that has impressed so far this season.
It has been a season of contrasting fortunes for St Helens and Warrington so far in 2023 but here, for one night at least, it felt like the reigning Super League champions, the side who have won the last four league titles and the World Club Challenge only eight weeks ago, rediscovered their swagger. That the Saints sat eighth in the table going into this game tells you everything you needed to know about their results and performances this season to date.
Wigan Warriors emerged through a typically full-blooded Good Friday derby with St Helens in front of a packed DW Stadium to move up to second in the Super League table.
Blake Austin punctured St Helens’ celebratory homecoming with a drop goal in the dying seconds to earn Leeds a dramatic 25-24 victory at the Totally Wicked Stadium.
England have named seven uncapped players in their 24-man squad for the Rugby League World Cup, including the Salford duo of Marc Sneyd and Andy Ackers. The Guardian revealed on Thursday that Sneyd and Ackers were set to win their first call-ups for the tournament after impressing Shaun Wane, the head coach, with their end-of-season form at the Red Devils.
There can now surely be no doubting the matter. For the first time in Super League history – and only the second since rugby league was founded in 1895 – a team has won four consecutive league titles. In the early-1990s it was Wigan Warriors who swept all before them but this time it is St Helens, who in the process of a deserved Grand Final victory against Leeds, perhaps finally secured their status as the greatest team to pick up a rugby league ball.
A drop goal from Jack Welsby in golden point extra-time secured a 13-12 win for champions St Helens against rock-bottom Wakefield.
St Helens and England centre Mark Percival will remain sidelined with the leg injury that has forced him to miss the last two games.