St Helens Under 16s v Wigan Under 16s - Scholarship
Thursday 9th April 2014. Kick Off 7:00pm at Langtree Park.

Match Report

Both sides bombed early chances with Saints having a try disallowed for offside and Caine Barnes blowing a try with a knock on when the try line was begging for him.

Eventually Saints found two tries in the 11th and 15th Minutes, both on the back of conceded penalties by Wigan. First Harry Coleman scored before Jordan Gibbons crossed but Gibbons failed to convert either try.

Wigan responded with a good spell in which they themselves scored twice. Declan O'Donnell went over from a metre out with the Saints defenders all falling for his dummy and then James Worthington finished. Ollie Russell converting both had Wigan 12-8 ahead.

Saints though I thought had been the better side and two tries either side of half time, from Harry Coleman and Kevin Brown put them back in command.

Conversions to both had made it 20-12 and for the next twenty minutes or so it was patience required towards the next crucial try. It fell to Saints with Sean Croston scoring on 56 minutes and a quick second try after that made it 32-12 and game over.

Saints added a penalty goal six minutes from time and although Wigan got late consolation scores from Gary McMahon and Alex Bolton, I thought the final score of 34-24 was a bit flattered.

Don't get me wrong, Wigan certainly had the territory to compete easily in this match but they wasted it with errors and lack of composure all night. Saints didn't really do that and they certainly defended far better than Wigan.

Team Sheets

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Score Sheet

Scoring and Incident Pattern

Referee

Paul Cromer