WARD NOD TO RHINOS
Mark picks a pocket or two to keep super Saints riding high
MARK PERCIVAL twice picked Huddersfield’s pockets to keep undefeated St Helens top of Super League.
The England international reacted the quickest to loose balls in either half, as Justin Holbrook’s side eventually saw off a dogged effort from the Giants.
Holbrook also had another assured performance from fullback Lachlan Coote, who was near faultless at the back and chimed into the line effectively in attack to condemn Huddersfield to a fifth defeat in six games.
Saints have the only 100 per cent record left in the competition. And when starting props Alex Walmsley and Luke Thompson are taking them f o rward and Jame s Roby wreaks havoc off the back of them, they are tough for any team to stop.
Thompson opened the scoring by
vcrashing over from close range. But the Giants responded well and scored two first-half tries of their own, impressive full-back Darnell McIntosh providing passes for Jermaine McGillvary a and Jordan Turner to t touch down.
In be twe e n M Morgan Knowles followed l Thompson’s l lead from a Roby p pass. And before halft t i m e Pe r c iv a l g grabbed his first, p pouncing to ground J Jonny Lomax’s kick. SUPER LEAGUE STANDINGS
LF7.45pm LONDON coach Danny Ward says writing off his former club Leeds is “ridiculous.”
The Rhinos have lost five of their opening six matches to prompt talk of an early crisis for new coach David Furner (above), but Ward isn’t buying into it.
He said: “It’s a fine line between winning and losing. I know there are people writing Leeds off, which is ridiculous.
“They will always be there or thereabouts come the end of the season.” His second came when he reached out to score after the ball had come loose from McGillvary behind his own line, Coote’s conversion putting his side 12 points in front.
A mistake from the Giants other winger Akuila Uate saw Regan Grace take a Coote cut-out pass directly from the resulting scrum.
Back- rower Dom Peyroux finished after Tommy Makinson knocked back a Theo Fages kick superbly, before Lomax completed the scoring by dummying over from close range.