St Helens 34-24 Wigan
On-loan hooker scores twice in last 10 minutes
The derby rarely fails to disappoint, but just when you think this 130-year-old rivalry cannot get any more unbelievable, this happens. The scoreline looks unremarkable, but that tells only a fraction of the story of the 367th meeting between St Helens and Wigan.
The pre-match talk was not who would win, it was how many Wigan, the league leaders going into the Easter programme, would win by. Saints, humiliated 52-10 at Hull KR last week, were without a dozen first-team regulars, many of them starters. They soon lost a 13th when prop Agnatius Paasi limped off after four minutes.
It all looked to be going to script as late as 71 minutes into proceedings. Wigan had rode off a spirited effort and forged a 14-point lead that looked more than enough. But what happened next will live in the folklore of St Helens for a long, long time as they produced a comeback for the ages, inspired by the unlikeliest of heroes.
