Well done St Helens

[SteH]

Super League champions 2006.

[Paul D]

Challenge Cup Winners,,the League

Leaders Shield and the Grand Final Winners,no one could come near them.:celb (23):

[Paul D]

Sports Personality: The winners

Team of the Year - St Helens rugby league side
St Helens claimed the first of two honours in Birmingham as the rugby league side were rewarded for their treble-winning achievements.

They won the National prize but they finished runners up in the North West awards in the unbiased Manchester to erm Sale.:rolleyes:

[Paul D]

Well done to the Saints for being crowned World Champions yesterday,they beat the favourites Brisbane Broncos 18-14.:handclap:

[marie]

I like the rugby, but only I could have seen in the TV the 6 nations. Also I could have seen some games in the State de France. But here there is no a good level of rugby.

I do not know very much this sport still. I started to pleasing it does a few time sincerely. If someone likes the rugby and knows the team St Helens, I would like to learn on it.

[SteH]

Here's (http://www.saintsrlfc.com/)a web link to St Helens Marie. There are rugby league (13 players), while the six nations is rugby union (15 players). Each rugby has different points systems and rules as well.

[marie]

Here's (http://www.saintsrlfc.com/)a web link to St Helens Marie. There are rugby league (13 players), while the six nations is rugby union (15 players). Each rugby has different points systems and rules as well.

Yes, I know or I think so...


RUGBY LEAGUE -
Played in the UK, New Zealand & Australia. This means that the international competition for this is quite limited. The strongest club league is in Australia (NRL) followed by UK.

RUGBY UNION -
Played in South Africa, New Zealand, Argentina, Australia, Great Britian, Italy, France, with a few minnows around like Canada, Japan, USA, etc.
This means that international competition for Union is far stronger. The world cup for Rugby has generally very good standard of competition. Incidentally Rugby Union is said to have begun when an english school boy could not be bothered using his feet in football, but rather picked up the ball and started running, William Ellis.

[Paul D]

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Tha Saints new ground opening in 2010.

[Paul D]

Catalans Dragons: (4) 8
Tries: Khattabi, Murphy

St Helens: (12) 30
Tries: Roby, Gardner 2, Wellens, Clough
Goals: Long 5

St Helens powered to victory in the Challenge Cup final after wearing down battling Catalans Dragons at Wembley.

Tries from James Roby and Ade Gardner, either side of a Younes Khattabi reply, gave Saints a 12-4 half-time lead.

Paul Wellens capitalised on a fumble to stretch Saints' lead just after the break before Paul Clough also crossed.

Dragons were given hope by Justin Murphy's score but Gardner added a late try for Saints, with Sean Long booting five goals to seal the win.

A cagey first 20 minutes was punctuated by some brutal defending, and the closest either side came to scoring in the stifling heat came after 20 minutes.

Saints centre Matthew Gidley was denied a certain-looking try when he was blocked by a superb pincer-tackle by Stacey Jones and Clint Greenshields.

Catalans second row Jason Crocker then thought he had scored three minutes later when he chased a kick-through and grounded, although his left hand was over the ball and the referee signalled no-try.

A superb tackle from Luke Quigley then denied Leon Pryce a try on the line. And Pryce was denied again when Gregory Mounis rolled the Saints stand-off over in the tackle just as he seemed poised to score.

The breakthrough finally came after 33 minutes when Roby shimmered through the Catalans defence and five miss-tackles for a brilliant solo effort, which Long converted.

Catalans bravely hit back when a Saints fumble was picked up and whipped out to Khattabi via Adam Mogg's mis-pass, although Jones's conversion attempt missed the target.

Controversially though, St Helens went further ahead when Gardner crossed wide out, although the final pass looked slightly forward from Gidley.

Long fired over a sweet conversion from the touch line to build a 12-4 lead at the break.

And Wellens picked up his 23rd touchdown of the year just after the restart when Long's kick-through was fumbled by Greenshield and the fullback gathered to run in under the posts, giving Long an easy conversion.

The English team then turned the screw as gaps started to appear in the Catalans defence and Clough was handed an overlap wide out on 52 minutes to run in unopposed.

Six minutes later, Catalans were given hope when a poor pass was fumbled by Wellens out wide and Murphy was able to pick up and dash to the line for his 36th try in 45 matches.

Saints regrouped and Gardner set off on a long sprint to the line, only to be hauled down just inside the Catalans' half. But from the resultant penalty chance, Long punted over to make it 24-8

And Gardner wrapped up the victory when he added his second try of the afternoon as the Dragons' defence wilted in the heat, with Long adding the extra points.

ANOTHER YEAR ANOTHER TROPHY!!!:handclap:

[jon_hall]

Great win for Saints.

Must thank Catalan Dragons for putting up a fight that quite a lot of the super league clubs would never have done.

Bodes well hopefully for future success and the growth of the game, and hopefully Catalan can grow their fan base in southern france, and with any look in Catalunya itself.