"His defensive efforts and tackling is always talked about but what isn't always talked about is the way he is always in the right place at the right time supporting people and his passing skill and technical ability is world-class and he is a world-class bloke. [293] Thankfully for Saints, they were permitted by the council to begin construction on a new ground, and confirmed that they would move away from Knowsley Road in 2011. [247] Situated, prior to their recent move to Widnes, in Eccleston and Thatto Heath, a lot of support naturally derives from that area. In 2004 they beat archrivals Wigan 3216 at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff in front of a capacity crowd of 73,734 people to win the Challenge Cup,[155] Long gaining his second of an eventual three Lance Todd Trophies. St.Helens R.F.C. St Helens youth policy does not operate solely in the borough boundaries of the town. More recently, the game was even played on Maundy Thursday in Super League. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ENGLAND 3rd TEST TEAM PHOTO & ST HELENS RUGBY LEAGUE REVIEW VOL:3 NO:34 1949 at the best online prices at eBay! [194] However, for the fourth year running, St Helens once more proved flops in the Grand Final. Jake Wingfield (19), Josh Simm (21), Ben Davies (22), Dan Norman (24), Matty Foster (25) and Sam Royle (26) all move up in number from the 2021 season. Saints winning 83, drawing 11 and losing 141. [62] They didn't have long to wait for trophies as St Helens won the Lancashire Leagues, in 195253,[63] The 1953 Championship final against Halifax was held at Manchester City's Maine Road ground; in front of a crowd of over 50,000, Saints won their second Championship 2414. [61], Former club player and Welsh international Kel Coslett took over as coach in June 1980. Most tries in a match: 6 by all of the following: Highest International tour match attendance: 29,156 vs, This page was last edited on 25 April 2023, at 14:36. BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award, BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of St Helens RLFC international players, List of St Helens R.F.C. St Helens R.F.C. [132] McClennan was head coach until December 1993, when Eric Hughes succeeded him as head coach in 1994. While at Thatto Heath she was first selected for the England women's national rugby league team in 2008, aged 16. This defeat naturally came as a shock to the St Helens faithful, after so often in the last 15 years seeing the team reach the pinnacle of this competition and go on to win the cup. [137][138] In 2023 they then beat Penrith Panthers 13-12 in Australia to win it for a third time. "Robes leads by example more than any other leader I have come across, he displays all these attributes and he is an inspiration to all at the club who have had the pleasure of working with him on a daily basis. [207] Super League Grand Final 2014: James Roby lifts the Super League trophy alongside Nathan Brown and club captain Paul Wellens. Super League: St Helens 22-4 Wigan Warriors - BBC Sport ", "Saints vs. Wigan Head-to-Head Since 1895", "Emmitt: Dual System Is Giving Me Confidence", "Toronto Becomes Second CRL Domestic Club", "Original St Helens R.L.F.C.Supporters Club", "RedVee.Net The N1 Independent Saints Website Sponsored By Hattons Solicitors", https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/super-league-average-attendances-for-2018-revealed-and-its-not-good-reading-18712/, "Super League average attendances for 2018 revealed - and it's not good reading! "The best thing about him is he is the most humble and pleasant bloke you wish to meet. Platinum Club Partners Umbro were once again the designers of this varsity blue jersey with a royal blue veeshaped chevron, a kit similar to the away kit of 2008. [233][234] However, the derby is often noted for its bad behaviouron and off the field. I think straight away it puts me and the team at ease knowing he is in your team and he has got your back. [44] This was the same season that they won their second Lancashire League,[45] the first coming in the 192930 season. In the 1961 Challenge Cup final against Wigan, the strip still seen todaythe famous red Vwas first utilised. "James Roby is the greatest player I've ever had the chance to play with," says Makinson. St Helens RFC's 10 Greatest Players Rugby League Opinions St Helens won the match 2412, to win their fourth final in a row, and by doing so, they become the first team in Super League history to win four in a row. All Matches. [81] St Helens were beaten by Wakefield Trinity in the 1967 Rugby Football League Championship Final at Station Road, Swinton on 10 May 1967 by 20 points to 9 in a replay,[82] after a 77 draw 4 days earlier. New NRLW recruits Hollie-Mae Dodd, Georgia Roche in England squad vs Super League Grand Final. [17] However the two Divisions became one League to save the club from a second relegation. Listen: Hull KR v Leeds & St Helens v Wakefield. [230][231], Leeds have arguably the strongest rivalry with St Helens, out of all the Yorkshire clubs that have a history with St Helens. "To play alongside him was a huge honour, and he is quite simply one of rugby league's best players in any era. England can bridge the gap to the southern hemisphere sides as they begin their 2025 World Cup cycle against France, says St Helens' Jack Welsby. News, Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. Close player. Since then, more than 1,200 players have appeared for the club's first team. 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Recalling their time together on international duty, O'Loughlin said: "Even when you play against people, you get a feel of what they are like and I got a feeling he (Roby) was a good person and team-mate. Despite such high honours, when speaking to those who have played with him, worked with him or lined up against him, they all highlight the one aspect of Roby they admire more than anything else: his humbleness. The Official Online Shop of St Helens Rugby League Football Club. [14] In 190203, the combined Lancashire and Yorkshire leagues saw St Helens enter for the first time. [174] However, St Helens were once again defeated by Leeds in the Grand Final, by a margin of 24 to 16, on 4 October 2008. [169] They were beaten in the Grand Final that year by Leeds by 33 points to 6,[170] despite finishing at the top of the league ladder for the third successive season. The side have fallen to back-to-back defeats in somewhat recent unprecedented times for the four-peat champions, sitting outside the play-offs in eighth position. St Helens now had two professional rugby league teams. [71] In 1981, the club changed colours again, albeit temporarily, when Umbro designed and manufactured a Frenchstyle jersey of blue, with a white and red V. These colours were donned for two years, before the traditional colours were reverted to. 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In 2000, a more regular V was seen again. Emily Rudge - Wikipedia The full-back says Saints' win over the Penrith . [61] In his first season, McClennan took St Helens to the 1991 Challenge Cup Final, where they were defeated by 13 points to 8 by Wigan. Since the inception of Super League in 1996, they have won the title on eight occasions, and have added seven Challenge Cups to their five previous successes. [46] They lost the 1933 Lancashire Cup Final to Warrington,[47] whilst finishing in no competitive position in the league once more. On 9 August 2009, St Helens reached a record ninth consecutive Challenge Cup semifinal,[176] where they were beaten by 24 points to 14 by the Huddersfield Giants. [168] Here, St Helens successfully defended their Challenge Cup by defeating Catalans Dragons 308 in the final on 25 August 2007. Initially, the St Helens mascots were Bernard and Bernadette, St Bernard dogs; depicting something of a married couple with their on-field humorous antics. A League[79] and Cup[7][80] double was achieved under Coan in the 196566 season, whilst they lost the Floodlit Trophy final against Castleford. St Helens would go on to win the World Club Challenge game 13-12 in golden point extra-time to claim their third trophy in the competition. 2021. ST HELENS vs HULL FC - Rugby sevens is another type of rugby that has just seven players per side. "He has achieved and continues to achieve so much and he does it with such class, great ability and work ethic but with a humility that endears him to us all.". "It is a pleasure to get to talk about James Roby," says Holbrook. [115] Nothing was won in the 198384 season,[116] but Saints won back the Lancashire Cup, with a 2618 win at Wigan in the 198485 season. Also in rugby league there are no rucks, mauls, or line-outs. Indeed, many of St Helens current and past squads call areas like Widnes, Wigan, Cumbria and Oldham home. [101] They repeated their first Challenge Cup success of the 1970s three years after the first against Widnes in 1976 where they were victorious by 205 in the famous 'Dads Army' final. St Helens are one of the best supported teams in Super League, averaging 11,543 according to 2014 figures. "I have never come across a player as mentally resilient as he is and when you combine that with his undoubtable ability, it becomes clear how he is undeniably one of the game's greats.". On 3 October 2009, Saints defeated fierce rivals the Wigan Warriors to book their place at a fourth consecutive Super League Grand Final,[178] [224] Wigan's biggest win was a 6512 win in Super League II, 1997. 2004 saw a double curvy red V used, before, in 2005, yet again tradition was reverted to in the design and this design was used until 2009. Their jerseys were far more lightweight than what they had replaced, and they chose to revert to a more conventional fashion of red V in their designs. With assistant coach Kieron Purtill also leaving, the coaching reins were taken up by youth coach Mike Rush for the remainder of the 2012 season, with Keiron Cunningham acting as his assistant. They are the current Super League and World Club Challenge champions having won last season's Grand Final, and the World Club Challenge, becoming the first English team to win in Australia, since the 1994 World Club Challenge. St.Helens R.F.C. Jodie Cunningham: 'Rugby league has made my life better a million times [93][94] In their first Challenge Cup Final of the 1970s, they defeated Leeds in 1972 1613,[7][95] in addition to winning their first Floodlit Trophy, after losing out in the final three times before, with an 82 win over Rochdale. [153] They were hammered in the 2003 World Club Challenge by Sydney by 38 points to 0. @Saints1890 The OFFICIAL Twitter feed of the current World Club Champions and #FOURmidable @SuperLeague Champions | Saints Women: @saints1890women | #COYS Sports, Fitness & Recreation St.Helens saintsrlfc.com Joined November 2009 672 Following 115.3K Followers Replies Media A week before the match, St Helens played one pre-season trial fixture against St. George Illawarra which St Helens won 30-18 at WIN Stadium. The Treble (rugby league) - Wikipedia Players are listed alphabetically. St Helens' former stadium was Knowsley Road, renamed in 2008 to the GPW Recruitment Stadium for sponsorship reasons. In fact, it was only in the 1950s that St Helens won their first Challenge Cup and National League, and at this time, when St Helens were establishing themselves and improving in the 1950s, and 1960s, Bradford were disproving, and in fact folded in 1963. "I am so happy for Robes in what he has achieved so far and he deserves all the accolades he gets even though he would be happy not to get any, he just wants to get on with it and win the next game for his town of St. Rhyse Martin, who has looked more likely than anyone to brings Leeds back into this, scores after some neat passing between him and. statistics and records, List of St Helens R.F.C. is a professional rugby league club in St Helens, Merseyside. Keiron Cunningham, perhaps the prime example of St Helens deep roots in junior rugby, Without having strict feeder sides, such as the system that exists in Australasia, St Helens have, in the last 20 years, particularly with the inception of the dualregistration scheme in 2009, built up partnerships with Co-operative Championship sides like Widnes and Leigh. [159], Daniel Anderson saw his new team become the first team to top the Super League and fail to reach Old Trafford in 2005. One of the finest finals of the Super League era was anticipated,[195] but the flamboyant Saints that the fans saw so rarely under Potter once more failed to materialise, and, in front of a near sellout crowd of 71,526, they fell to a 2210 loss to rivals Wigan. Celebration: James Roby lifts the Challenge Cup trophy for St. Helens in 2021, on the club's first win at Wembley since 2008. St Helens would go on to reach the 2019 Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford against Salford. Wellens said: "Since retiring, I have had the pleasure of being on the coaching staff as he has taken over the captaincy and led the club through one of its most successful ever periods. Jack Welsby headlines the squad number switches, as he takes over the coveted number one jersey, held by so many previous legends of the Club. But St Helens' youth roots do not stop in the St Helens area. [6] They played in a vertically striped blue and white jerseya stark contrast to the well known broad red band which would become the kit for the club later. St Helens are the oldest members of the Rugby Football League. [15] Promotion was gained at the first attempt,[16] only for another poor year to see them finish once again in a relegation position. [104] In the same year, St Helens lost to Eastern Suburbs in an unofficial World Club Challenge Final by 25 points to 2. "I have had the pleasure of being at Robes's side for the past 20 years since he first came into the St Helens first-team environment," said Wellens. In his final season as Tigers boss, this looked to be Daryl Powell's best . Truth Talking Maverick on Twitter: "Just a reminder.. St Helens are the [288] Previous main sponsors have included St Helens Glass (198687, 200001), McEwan's Lager (198798), John Smith's (1999), Caledonia (2002), Comodo (2003), All Sports (200405), Earth money (200607), Pilkington Activ (200809), Frontline (2010), Medicash (2011), Typhoo (2012 - 2016), RCMA Group (2017), and Cash Converters[289] (2018 - 2021). St Helens were placed in Division 1 but finished next to bottom and suffered relegation. [154] In this season, they failed to win a trophy after being knocked out of the Challenge Cup by Leeds at the semifinal stage, and the Super League playoffs by Wigan at the same stage. Following on from their most constant ambition for successes, first experienced really in the 1960s, Saints became one of the most successful side of the summer era. [98][99] This could be a possible reason for Jim Challinor's replacement with Eric Ashton as head coach. "The Tonga players and officials, led by coach Kristian Woolf, have pioneered the rise of international Rugby League since the 2017 World Cup and they will create further history by becoming the . [72] After his departure in 1962, Stan McCormick led the club to retaining the Lancashire Cup in his first year,[73] again beating Swinton; and St Helens made it a quadruplet of Lancashire Cup successes with wins against Leigh in 1964,[74] and once more Swinton in 1965, the latter success under coach Joe Coan. [184] Names like Royce Simmons,[185] Mal Meninga,[186] and assistant coach Kieron Purtill,[187] were linked with the job for 2011. [105] The club won the Premiership in 1977,[106] but, on 13 December 1977, Saints lost 2611 to Hull Kingston Rovers in the final of the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy. However, Cunningham would not be leaving without leaving a lasting legacy on the club. This was illustrated by the defeat by Halifax in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley, 1918, in 1987. [294] It was announced that the new complex, to be built on an unused glass site in Peasley Cross, was to feature at least 12,000 seats, a large car park, and a Tesco store next to the ground. F or almost five years, few teams have captivated British rugby league quite like St Helens. [121] Success was achieved in 1988 when St Helens lifted their one and only John Player Trophy with a 1514 victory over Leeds in January 1988, at Central Park, Wigan. St Helens R.F.C. [206], Before the start of the 2023 Super League season, St Helens travelled to Australia for the 2023 World Club Challenge. The team then won again under the new St Helens name in 2021.. Bradford Bulls. [128] They also lost the Premiership Final that season, losing to Wigan. [84] St Helens retained the Lancashire Cup the year later,[85] whilst also winning the Lancashire League for being the highest placed Lancashire side in the National standings,[86] and they also reached the final of the Floodlit Trophy that season, where they were beaten 74 by Wigan. JUST. [205], St Helens ended the 2022 regular season as League Leaders, thus earning them a bye to the semi finals. In 2003, a tripleV design was seen, and the first to be used by longserving kit designers Puma AG. "He was so good at being consistent throughout the game and then not even looking like he had played.". [68] A second Lancashire County Cup came in 196061,[69]. "I thought when Robes came on the scene behind Keiron Cunningham, he was a couple of years below me and came on as a kid but you could tell he was the real deal," says the former Wigan and England captain. [166], After a slow start to the 2007 season, Saints added to their history by beating Brisbane 1814 to win the 2007 World Club Challenge.[138]. When known as Bradford Northern, Bradford experienced their period of success largely in the 1940s, at a time when St Helens struggled to compete due to the commitments of World War II. On Friday, they will see him wearing that jersey for the 500th time against Leeds Rhinos, cementing himself as one of the greats of the Super League era. [61][114] Not in-keeping with several of his predecessors, Benyon did not enjoy any success in his first season as St Helens coach, losing the Lancashire Cup final of that year to Warrington. FT. HT 6-12. However, in 2008, St Helens were given a warning letter from the RFL, as a result of the ensuing licensing system that was to be introduced into Super League in 2009, stating that the quality of their current stadium was too poor for the expected quality of a licence in the league. In Prescott's first season as coach he lifted the Lancashire League in the 195960 season. However, during the modern, Summer era, the game between the two gained prestige. [117] They also won the Premiership in the same season with a 3616 victory over defending champions Hull Kingston Rovers at Elland Road in Leeds. [7][102] They also won the Premiership against Salford,[103] and the Floodlit Trophy against Dewsbury in a successful season. In July, they beat Super League rivals, Bradford,[167] to reach the first Challenge Cup final at the new Wembley Stadium. with the fans, a kit that featured a white dropdown V with a black and red mesh design at the bottom of the jersey. [165], In December 2006 St Helens were awarded with the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award at the Annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year Ceremony. The 1985 New Zealand tour jersey was similar to the home shirt of 2009, sponsored also by Pilkington. Murphy was succeeded by Mike McClennan in February 1990.
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