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Salford 10 St Helens 32: Saints making late surge under Rush

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Salford 10 St Helens 32: Saints making late surge under Rush

PUBLISHED:

22:40 GMT, 22 June 2012

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UPDATED:

22:40 GMT, 22 June 2012

Mike Rush hailed Jon Wilkin's impact as St Helens produced 32 unanswered points to secure a dogged win.

Saints came back from 10-0 down after Vinnie Anderson and Danny Williams had got the Reds off to a flyer and Rush said: 'Jon's been in good form a few weeks now. He pushes, kicks and defends really well.

'He's having a very good season for us. We took our chances well.'

Thomas Makinson of St Helens (L) evades a tackle from Jodie Broughton of Salford City to score their third try

Thomas Makinson of St Helens (L) evades a tackle from Jodie Broughton of Salford City to score their third try

Josh Jones and Lance Hohaia levelled the scores for Saints before Wilkin's high kick saw Tommy Makinson edge the visitors ahead. Tries for Jonny Lomax, Michael Shenton and Paul Wellens sealed the points.

'We were in the game right until the end. I'm disappointed for a lot of the guys in the dressing room,' said Salford boss Phil Veivers.

Salford let slip a 10-0 lead against St Helens for the second time this season as Rush's men continued their impressive run in the Stobart Super League.

The Reds conceded 38 points without reply in going down 38-10 at Langtree Park in February and there was a touch of deja vu as they were once more unable to maintain their early promise, with Saints finishing strongly at the City of Salford Stadium.

Saints have now lost just two of 11 league matches under Rush and Keiron Cunningham, both to leaders Wigan, and have their sights set firmly on a seventh consecutive Grand Final appearance.

Salford have little left to play for apart from pride but the final scoreline did little justice to their efforts, with the visitors running in three converted tries in the last six minutes. St Helens were without prop Josh Perry but they had all nine players involved in last Saturday's internationals and two of them, Lance Hohaia and Jonny Lomax, especially caught the eye.

Yet Salford dominated the first half, highlighted by touches of class from stand-off Daniel Holdsworth in particular, and they deserved their 10-6 half-time lead.

Hohaia breached the Salford line midway through the first half but referee James Child had spotted an obstruction and it was the Reds who opened the scoring three minutes later.

Inevitably, Holdsworth was at the heart of the move as he supplied the final pass for former St Helens back rower Vinnie Anderson to go past Paul Wellens for a try, to which Holdsworth added the conversion.

Hohaia had another try disallowed, this time for a knock-on, before Salford stretched their lead through Danny Williams.

The former Newcastle Falcons winger, who this week signed a new two-year contract, produced a superb finish after Salford ran the ball on the last tackle and Chris Nero cleverly drew the Saints defence out of position.

St Helens hauled themselves back into the game just before the break when centre Josh Jones collected Hohaia's towering kick to touch down and Tom Makinson added the goal to cut the gap to four points.

It was all square two minutes into the second half when Hohaia went over from dummy half for Saints' second try and the visitors went in front for the first time on 53 minutes when Jon Wilkin's kick hung in the wind and enabled centre Michael Shenton to get Makinson over at the corner.

Makinson was unable to master the wind with either of his latest conversion attempts but, at 14-10, the momentum was firmly with the visitors.

The Reds continued to look lively but they suffered a blow when tough-tackling forward Shannon McPherson hobbled off on 65 minutes and there was no way back for them when Wellens tapped the ball back from Wilkin's high kick for Lomax to touch down.

Saints then made sure with two further tries through Shenton, who followed up his own grubber kick, and Wellens, with substitute Lee Gaskell kicking three conversions.

Scott Moore leaves Widnes

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Moore leaves Widnes just six games into contract after breach of discipline

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Sportsmail Reporter

PUBLISHED:

23:15 GMT, 12 April 2012

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UPDATED:

23:15 GMT, 12 April 2012

Released: Scott Moore

Released: Scott Moore

Former St Helens hooker Scott Moore is facing an uncertain future after being released by Widnes just six games into his career with the Vikings.

The 24-year-old left St Helens at the end of last season to sign a three-year deal with the Vikings, but was one of three Widnes players suspended for a breach of club discipline in February.

But while Simon Finnigan and Hep Cahill served one-match bans, Moore was absent for a month as he recovered from a broken jaw.

The Super League outfit released a statement announcing Moore's immediate departure but have not disclosed a reason.

A club statement said: 'By mutual
agreement, Scott Moore will leave Widnes Vikings with immediate effect.
The club will not be making any further comment on this matter.'

News of Moore's departure comes just 48
hours before Widnes play his former club in the fourth round of the
Carnegie Challenge Cup.

Moore, who played in the Vikings' 38-4 home defeat by Bradford on Monday, made his Super League debut for hometown club St Helens at the age of just 16.

But he was third choice hooker behind Keiron Cunningham and James Roby and spent the 2008 season on loan at Castleford before moving to Huddersfield for 2009.

It was during his spell with the Giants that Moore began to fulfill his potential, appearing in a Challenge Cup final at Wembley, being included in the Super League Dream Team and making his England debut against France.

He returned to St Helens for the start of the 2010 season but moved onto Widnes at the end of last year in a bid to secure regular first-team football and win back his England spot.

Moore has never been far from controversy.

He was suspended by Huddersfield in 2009 after missing training to attend an awards night in London with actor Micky Rourke and was last season dropped by St Helens after being arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.

St Helens 10 Wigan 28

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St Helens 10 Wigan 28: Saints run ended as Warriors romp to derby win

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16:04 GMT, 6 April 2012

Injury-hit Wigan claimed the spoils from a passionate and bruising Stobart Super League derby to inflict a first defeat on St Helens caretaker coaches Mike Rush and Keiron Cunningham.

Saints were on a high after back-to-back triumphs over Leeds and Warrington but they never recovered from the shock of losing scrum-half Jonny Lomax with a badly broken thumb after just 16 minutes.

St Helens, who played the last 10 minutes with 12 men following the sin-binning of Michael Shenton, also lost England forward Jon Wilkin with a shoulder injury just before the end to cap a miserable afternoon.

Winning feeling: George Carmont celebrates his try for Wigan

Winning feeling: George Carmont celebrates his try for Wigan

Storming displays from Wigan duo Gareth Hock and Jeff Lima helped make up for the absence of five first-choice forwards through injury and suspension and it was fitting that they scored the late tries that secured victory.

The Warriors gave a debut to prop Gil Dudson while hooker Logan Tomkins went on just before the end for his second appearance in Super League and the first alongside older brother Sam.

Early handling errors by Tom Makinson, deputising for suspended Saints full-back Paul Wellens, and Wigan pivot Brett Finch demonstrated big match nerves in front of the 18,000 sell-out crowd at Langtree Park.

There was also an uncharacteristic blunder from Wigan full-back Sam Tomkins which gifted Saints the game's first try, although he went on to more than make amends.

He lost the ball in Josh Jones' tackle and Lance Hohaia reacted quickly to get Francis Meli over at the corner despite Josh Charnley's last-ditch tackle.

Breaking through: St Helens' Sia Soliola goes over the line for a try against Wigan as Harrison Hanson, Thomas Leuluai and Jack Hughes fail to stop him

Breaking through: St Helens' Sia Soliola goes over the line for a try against Wigan as Harrison Hanson, Thomas Leuluai and Jack Hughes fail to stop him

Undeterred, Wigan roared back and dominated the rest of the first half to open up a 12-4 lead.

Centre Darrell Goulding took Thomas Leuluai's pass to cross for an equalising score after Saints passing broke down 30 metres from their own line and, after Pat Richards was denied a try for a foot in touch, George Carmont demonstrated his strength to reach out of a three-man tackle to touch down.

The visitors would have been further ahead but for some tremendous defence on his own line by Saints second rower Sia Soliola, who managed to prevent substitute three-quarter Jack Hughes grounding the ball.

St Helens, with big impact from the bench, were a rejuvenated side in the second half and it took some exceptional defence to keep them out.

Standing tall: Wigan's Gareth Hock is tackled by St Helens pair Jon Wilkin and James Roby

Standing tall: Wigan's Gareth Hock is tackled by St Helens pair Jon Wilkin and James Roby

A run of penalties, which brought a warning for acting captain Brett Finch, eventually proved Wigan's undoing, with Soliola making the pressure tell by crashing over for his side's second try.

Makinson added the goal to make it 12-10 and they almost regained the lead but Roby lost the ball going for the line and the miss proved costly.

It was against the run of play when Hock produced a superb offload to Sam Tomkins and his jinking run brought him an eighth try of the season.

Wigan claimed a penalty try when centre Shenton pulled back Goulding as he chased his own kick but video referee James Child was not convinced a try would have been scored.

However, Shenton was sin-binned for the foul and Wigan made the extra man count with Finch sending Hock through a gap for the clinching try.
Lima then crashed over for Wigan's fifth try and Charnley kicked his fourth goal.