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 Having jumped past the Leeds Rhinos and into third spot last
weekend, Leigh Leopards round sixteen quest was to defeat the Rhinos themselves
and maintain their top three spot and the chase of the Wigan Warriors and
ultimately the league leaders, Hull KR.
Despite being below them in the league table it was the home
side, the Rhinos, who were the bookies favourites, handicapped by eight points
on the coupon as the two sides met for the first time in the 2025 competition.
A win for Leigh would see them to within a point of the
Warriors before their round sixteen game against Castleford tomorrow, a win for
the Rhino would lift them above Leigh and within two of the Warriors.
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 Leeds Rhinos were looking for a sixth consecutive victory as
they travelled to the Totally Wicked Stadium for a clash with a St Helens side
who have had an indifferent season so far in 2025.
The Rhinos were unchanged from last week’s demolition of the
Warrington Wolves while Saints were without impressive newcomer George Whitby
and Curtis Sironen who both miss out after picking up injuries in the big win
over Salford Red Devils last weekend.
The Rhinos were slight favourites with the bookies, handicapped
by two points on the coupon, as they looked to repeat their Magic Weekend win
and take a two to one lead in the third of this season’s four games between the
two sides.
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The two points were unlikely to improve Warrington’s league
position, given their awful points difference, but it would keep them in touch
with the top six and a play-off place, however, they were up against a
resurgent Leeds Rhinos who themselves wanted to reinforce their claim for third
spot.
The Wolves needed to bounce back from their Challenge Cup
heartbreak last weekend and knew that a win would go some way to do that, but
they also knew that a loss would make the remainder of their season much more
difficult.
Warrington won the previous meeting between the two sides in
March by 16-14 but the bookies favoured the Rhinos this time, handicapping them
by eight points on the coupon.
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On paper this was the game of the round, Leeds Rhinos in
fourth spot in the table approaching the halfway stage against promoted side
Wakefield Trinity who are currently in sixth with both sides coming into the
game on the back of three game unbeaten streaks.
The home side were favourites with the bookies to take a
game which marked a year since the passing of Leeds super star Rob Burrow, and
they were handicapped by eight points for a game which would be used to
recognise motor neurone disease (MND), a cause close to the Rhinos hearts.
A win would take the Rhinos back ahead of Leigh and into the
third spot that they relinquished last night to the Leopards, a win for Wakefield
would elevate them to fourth, pushing the Rhinos back into fifth on points
difference.
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Castleford Tigers were looking for back-to-back wins for the
first time in 2025 after defeating Salford Red Devils last time out, but they
were up against near neighbours Leeds Rhinos who are pushing towards the top of
the table and secured a sensational dying seconds win over Hull FC in round
eleven.
A win would take the Rhinos into third spot, their highest
league position for some time, while a win for the Tigers would move them to
within two points of the Warrington Wolves in eighth spot, still holding out a
hope of making the top six with a good run of form.
The home side were given an eight point start on the coupon,
the bookies expecting a close game between these two fierce rivals, closer than
when the Rhinos won by 38-24 in March.
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Two sides with very different Magic Weekend experiences met
in a Round Eleven game to determine who would end the night in fourth spot, and
who would be sixth, as the Leeds Rhinos entertained Hull FC at Headingley.
The Rhinos came into the game on the back of a confidence
boosting win over St Helens in the Newcastle jamboree, while Hull FC were still
licking their wounds after being the first side to give league points to a
struggling Huddersfield Giants in 2025.
The bookies thought that the points would be going the
Rhinos way after giving them a twelve-point handicap on the coupon, if the
Airlie Birds could pull off a win, then it would be a shock to many, including
some of their own supporters.
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The final game of the opening day of Magic was the most mouth-watering
fixture of the afternoon as St Helens took on the Leeds Rhinos with fourth
place up for grabs for the victor, the two sides starting the game separated by
just points difference on the league table.
Saints were slight favourites with the bookies, but this was
a different Rhinos side to the one which St Helens knocked out of the Challenge
Cup by 22-14 a couple of months ago, but the Rhinos were seeking their
first win over Saints in two years.
St Helens brought back skipper Jonny Lomax after he was left
out of the side for the last three games.
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 Round 9 of Super League XXX meant that it was the Leeds
Rhinos turn to try and displace the league leaders Hull KR as the Robins looked
to ensure that they stayed at the top of the pile, whatever happened elsewhere
in the round.
A win for the Rhinos would put them up to third in the table
and open the door to Wigan to finish the round above Hull KR, but should the
points go back to East Hull then the Red & White’s would be four points
clear of the Warriors in top spot.
Hull KR were the favourites for the win, but they had only
been handicapped by four points on the coupon against the continually improving
Rhinos, the bookmakers and pundits alike were not sure that the league leaders
would have it all their own way.
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The final game of the Good Friday Rivas round of Super
League XXX was the one that the bookies were tipping to be the most one-sides,
the Rhinos handicapped by twenty-four points on the coupon as they took on
bottom side and winless Huddersfield Giants who are in the depths of a chronic
injury crisis.
Honours were shared between the two sides in 2024, the
Giants winning the round eight encounter a day under a year ago by 30-24, Leeds
victorious in the last meeting between the two sides by 34-6 in July.
Leeds had new re-signing Kallum Watkins in their seventeen,
the Giants scraping the barrel for a functioning seventeen as their injury list
was longer than their fit player roster.
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After meeting in round two, the Salford Red Devils and Leeds
Rhinos were thrown together again for a Thursday night round seven encounter as
the home side lurched from one disaster to the next, the bookies suggesting
that there was simply no way that the Red Devils could get a win.
Salford named just seven of the players who took to the
field on the 22nd of February in the 6-32 loss to the Rhinos as the
ongoing ‘fire sale’ of players does untold damage to the club currently second
bottom with just the single win over fellow strugglers Huddersfield Giants to
show for their toils in 2025.
The home side had been given a twenty-point start on the coupon,
but many pundits feared that the recently resurgent Rhinos would run in a ‘cricket
score’ with any win lifting the Rhinos into fifth place.
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 Game 5,000 of the Super League era had been designated as
the clash between seventh placed Warrington Wolves, and the side just ahead of
them in the league table on points difference, the Leeds Rhinos as the
Halliwell-Jones Stadium played host.
The home side were slight favourites with the bookies with
the Rhinos getting a six-point start on the handicap coupon, but both sides had
three wins in their last five and both secured great wins last time out against
St Helens and the Wigan Warriors.
Warrington had been victors in the last three encounters,
all played last season, the last time that the Rhinos were victorious was in
August 2023, and the last time they won a the Halliwell-Jones was two months
earlier in July 2023.
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It is not often that a game between arch-rivals Leeds Rhinos
and Wigan Warriors is a mid-table battle but when the two sides came together
in round five of Super League XXX it was a Warriors side in fifth spot in the
table travelling to seventh placed Rhino with both sides looking for the two
points to either keep up with the league leaders, or avoid dropping into the
mire.
The Rhinos had been given an eight-point start on the
coupon, the Warriors fancied for the win by the bookmakers, a win which would
take them to the top of the table, both sides looking to banish memories of
last weekend’s Challenge Cup exits.
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Leeds hadn’t beaten St Helens for over two years in all
competitions, and it is ten seasons since the Rhinos last victory over tonight’s
hosts in the Challenge Cup, Leeds exiting the competition in round four last
season when they lost at Headingley by 20-6.
Despite form and history being heavily in the home sides
favour, they were only handicapped by twelve points on the coupon, the bookies firmly
favouring a home win but not by the margin that many of those travelling over
the Pennines feared.
Both coaches named strong sides for the clash which was
broadcast live on The Sportsman with a place in Monday evenings quarter final
draw the prize on offer for the eventual victors.
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 Two sides widely tipped to finish the season mid-table, and
likely be battling it out for the last play-off place, met in Perpignan as the
Leeds Rhinos were in town to take on the Catalans Dragons.
The Dragons were slight favourites with the bookies despite
starting the game five league places below Leeds, but a two-point handicap was
neither here nor there, as the Dragons looked to move up to ninth, the Rhinos with
their eye on fourth.
Leeds gave a debut to early season signing Australian centre
Ethan Clark-Wood in place of the injured Ryan Hall, and welcomed back Matt
Frawley and Brodie Croft, but they were still without the injured skipper Cameron
Smith who will be missing for the best part of two months.
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This week’s Salford Red Devils were likely to be a very different proposition to the side which were heavily beaten by St Helens in the opening round as the salary cap restrictions were lifted allowing Paul Rowley to select a full-strength side to take on the Leeds Rhinos, both sides seeking their first win in the competition.
The home side were the favourites with the bookies to start to repair the terrible points difference which they suffered in the 82-0 drubbing last week, the Rhinos were keen to get back on the bike after their unexpected loss at home to newly promoted Wakefield Trinity last weekend.
It is very early in the season, but both coaches knew that the outcome of the game was crucial for both sides.
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After a season in the Championship the much-heralded return of Daryl Powell’s Wakefield Trinity saw them travel to AMT Headingley for a round one opener against Brad Arthurs much fancied and revitalised Leeds Rhinos.
The visitors were given a respectful twelve-point start, but after an opening weekend of shocks and close games, who would bet against another close encounter and an extension of the eighty minutes with more golden point drama.
Both sides came into the game of the back of massive Challenge Cup third round victories, the Rhinos putting ninety-two unanswered points past Wests Warriors, while Trinity scored eighty-two against York Acorn with a big zero in the against column.
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It was a bumper payday for Acton based amateur side Wests Warriors as they switched their Challenge Cup game against the Rhinos to Headingley, with the Leeds faithful happy to get to see their side start their cup campaign on home soil, with the hope of a massive points win to give a confidence boost going into the start if Super League.
The bookies had given the Warriors a ninety-two point start on the coupon but with Brad Arthur fielding a very strong side, there was every chance that the statisticians would be reaching for the record books before the final hooter.
It was a Southern Conference League side making a two-hundred-mile trip north to face the Super League side, four tiers difference between the two, and there could only possibly be one winner.
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Both coaches elected to field very strong starting line-ups for the Ash Handley Testimonial game at Headingley between the Leeds Rhinos and defending Champions, Wigan Warriors, in a pre-season friendly.
With the third round of the Challenge Cup just a fortnight away, the Rhinos preparing for a trip to London to face Wests Warriors and Wigan Warriors planning their game against the Sheffield Eagles, there were plenty of eager substitutes looking to secure their spot as the competitive season loomed.
Handley made his Leeds debut in 2014 away at London Broncos and his home debut in 2015 against the Wigan Warriors, and has 212 competitive appearances under his belt for his hometown side being a single club career man, having played eight games on loan at Featherstone Rovers in three spells.
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Blowing away the Christmas day cobwebs, the traditional
encounter between the newly promoted Wakefield Trinity and the Leeds Rhinos
drew the crowd to AMT Headingley for a Boxing Day morning encounter.
Rhinos coach Arthur was up front with his game plan, giving
the first choice back row a forty-minute run and then interchanging them for
the youngsters for the second forty, as they came up against ex-coach Daryl
Powell's Trinity who were looking to gauge where they are in their build up to towards
the Superleague season.
Leeds put the boot through the ball to kick off the final
game of 2025, attacking the Western Terrace.
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The aims for both Hull KR and the Leeds Rhinos were clear as they went into their round twenty-seven encounter at opposite ends of the play-off zone.
Hull KR knew that a win would be enough to guarantee them second spot and a weekend off before a home game in the play-off eliminator while nothing less than a victory would suffice for the Leeds Rhinos who needed the two points to lift them above the Leigh Leopards and into sixth spot should the Leopards not be able to secure a victory over St Helens in a game kicking off at the same time.
Hull KR were the massive favourites with the bookies, the Rhinos not given a hope of taking the points and extending their season.
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