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 A place was up for grabs in the top six as the first game of
round eighteen of Super League 2025 pitched sixth placed Wakefield Trinity at
seventh placed Hull FC with the winner certain to finish the round inside the
play-of places.
The bookies had installed Hull FC as favourites, but only by
two points on the coupon, as most pundits believed that this one was too close
to call before kick-off.
The side had met once previously in 2025, FC taking the
spoils with a four points victory at the end of March.
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 After a sensational, but ultimately fruitless, New South
Wales fightback three weeks ago, the third and deciding game promised to
deliver the highest of quality rugby league as both sides fought for the coveted
series victory.
With home advantage, the Blues were favourites for the win
and handicapped by eight points on the coupon but it all came down to eighty
minutes and thirty-four players for who would emerge victorious.
New South Wales were unchanged from the second game while
Gehamat Shibasaki and Josh Papalii were drafted in for Queensland in place of
Ponga and Fotuaika in front of a full house at the Accor Stadium in Sydney.
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 On paper the game of the round was the Sunday afternoon
meeting at Craven Park between champions elect Hull Kingston Rovers and one of
the form sides of recent weeks, the Leeds Rhinos with both sides desperate for
the points and promising a blockbuster of a game.
The bookies made the home side clear favourites for the win
by handicapping them by ten points on the coupon as they looked to repeat their
round nine victory in Super Lague 2025, the Rhinos seeking their first win over
the robins since August 2022.
It was a mouthwatering prospect for neutrals, and fans of
both sides.
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 The door to the top six was ajar for Wakefield Trinity following
Hull FC’s defeat earlier in the afternoon and a win would lift them above the
Black & Whites and into a play-off place, but the Catalans Dragons knew
that a defeat might spell the end of their own challenge for the top six after
a disastrous season for the French side.
Wakefield favourites with a ten-point handicap on the coupon
despite the Dragons securing a golden point victory when the two sides met at
the end of April, a clear indication of the recent drop in form for the
Dragons.
It was an intriguing fixture, last weeks big Dragons win
over the Giants adding to the neutral’s confusion.
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 The battle for the top six was the motivator for both sides
in a round seventeen match-up between sixth placed Hull FC and a St Helens side
who travelled east highly motivated to maintain their fifth spot.
A loss for the home side could see them usurped in the six
by Wakefield Trinity should they record a win over the Catalans Dragons in West
Yorkshire in the late afternoon kick-off.
A win for St Helens would lift them above Leeds Rhinos and into fourth on points difference, and more importantly, it would put them six
points clear of the side in seventh spot, and the bookies made the visitors slight
favourites and handicapped them by two points on the coupon.
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 Round seventeen of Super League XXX brought the third ‘Battle
of the Borough’ as Leigh and Wigan came together for what promised to be
another close encounter as the second placed Warriors faced a Leopards side in
fourth and still smarting from taking a beating in relinquishing their third
place to Leeds last weekend.
Both games so far, both played at The Brick, have been tight
affairs with Wigan winning the Round Eleven game by 36-28 and Leigh taking the
points in that memorable season opener by a solitary golden point drop goal,
this time Wigan were the favourites with the bookies and the home side had an eight-point
start on the coupon.
Wigan would move within two of Hull KR at the top if they
picked up the win, Leigh would be back into third spot if they were to pick up
the points but in danger of ending the weekend in fifth should they slip up.
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 The 2025 Betfred Super League season is set for another
significant milestone at the MKM Stadium on Saturday with aggregate attendances
on course to pass one million fans in the 100th match.
The current aggregate is 982,254 after 97 matches – and if, as
expected, the total breaches seven figures in Saturday’s Round 17 fixture
between Hull FC and St Helens, it will be only the second time in 30 Super
League seasons that the one million milestone has been reached in 100 fixtures
at an average of more than 10,000 per match – equalling the record set in 2008.
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 The opening game of round seventeen was a bottom of the
table four pointer between the Castleford Tigers and Huddersfield Giants which
would either see the Tigers close within two points if the Catalans Dragons in
ninth spot, or the Giants move within two points of the Tigers.
The home side were slight favourites with the bookies having
been handicapped by four points on the coupon but in reality, the unpredictable
nature of both sides in a disappointing 2025 meant that it really was anyone’s
game to win.
The Tigers won the Round nine encounter at the John Smith’s
Stadium in April by 30-12, this was the Giants chance of revenge.
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An unchanged St Helens side, fresh from their confidence
boosting win over the Leeds Rhinos last time out, were at home again to face a
Salford Red Devils side who have had another tumultuous week on the
administration side of their business.
Losing by an average score of 42-6 so far in 2025, Salford were
given a forty-eight-point start on the coupon in a game that they could not
possibly win, and which would be a matter of how many they could keep the red
vee to scoring.
A win for Saints would secure their fifth spot and lift them
to within a point of the Leigh Leopards, ready to pounce on fourth spot should
Adrian Lam’s side slip up again.
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 Wigan Warriors were still smarting from last weekend’s loss
at Wakefield Trinity which saw Hull KR edge closer to taking their minor
premiers title as the champions slipped back towards the chasing pack and today
was the day that they would look to put the record straight and record a big
victory against a Castleford Tigers side who are struggling for any form in
2025.
The bookmakers gave the Tigers a twenty-point start on the
handicap coupon, very confident that Wigan would be able to narrow the gap to
the league leaders and improve their points difference at the same time.
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 As the Warrington Wolves prepared to face Hull FC at the
Halliwell-Jones in a crucial round sixteen encounter, they knew that their chances
of making the top six were slipping away on the back of three consecutive
losses which sees them languishing in eighth spot in the table, five points
behind today’s opponents.
Despite the recent run of losses, the bookies still had the
Wolves as favourites for the win and had handicapped them by six points on the
coupon even though it was Hull who had won the previous encounter in April by
28-16.
The Wolves were surrounded by uncertainty in relation to the
future of the coach Sam Burgess, and their skipper George Williams, this was
the perfect time for a confidence boost.
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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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In what has been the ‘round of the underdog’ could the
Salford Red Devils follow the trend and get only their second win of an awful
season as they faced Hull FC who were in need to the two points to move bac
inside the all-important top six.
The bookies certainly didn’t think that it was going to be
Salford’s day and they gave them a twenty-eight-point start on the handicap
coupon pre-match, as the home side gave four players debut on loan as they
struggled to name am eighteen.
This was the first meeting between the two sides in 2025,
Salford winning the last meeting by 58-4 when they last
met in September 2024.
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Sam Tomkins was back for the Catalans Dragons as they looked
to reverse their fortunes and end a six-game losing streak that started back on
the 3rd May when they lost narrowly to today’s opponents, the Leigh
Leopards.
The visitors were favourites to secure the two points that
they needed to take them above the Leeds Rhinos and into third spot with the
Dragons given an eight-point start on the handicap coupon.
This round fifteen fixture was the third meeting of the season
between the two sides, Leigh having taken the win in both previous games
between the two sides but the temperature, thirty-four degrees at kick off, could
be in the home sides favour.
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Two sides on a poor run of form, Warrington Wolves and
Huddersfield Giants met on Saturday afternoon as eighth took on eleventh, the
latter looking for their second victory of the season.
Warrington were strong favourites for the win and were
handicapped by fourteen points on the coupon, a larger margin than they enjoyed
in the 20-12 first round win, despite the Giants recent upturn in form which
saw them come close to upsetting the Wigan Warriors last time out.
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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 league points were not under debate in the opening round
fifteen fixture at Wheldon Road, they were heading back to Hull with the
Champions elect Hull KR with Castleford Tigers role to try and minimise the
points against column.
There bookies gave the home side an eighteen-point start on
the coupon, some recognition for their recent improvement in form as they saw their
injured stars starting to trickle back into their line-up.
KR won the opening round fixture of the 2025 season by a golden
point against tonight’s opposition and you must go back to May 2022 for the last
Castleford victory over the Robins.
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 Queensland needed a result after the humiliation of the game
one lass as the game moved to neutral territory in Perth with New South Wales
looking to seal the series win and make the third game in three weeks’ time a
dead rubber.
In heavy rain, both coaches rang the changes as they hunted
the win, Queensland added Mam and Capewell to the mix while New South Wales
brought in Luai, Burton and Utoikamanu.
The Blues were big favourites with the bookies for a second
2025 win and were handicapped by twelve points on the coupon, the same as the
winning margin in game one, as they looked to retain the shield.
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Wakefield Trinity were slight favourites with the bookies,
handicapped by two on the coupon, as they entertained the Leigh Leopards in a
game which looked, on paper at least, like the toe of the weekend.
Fourth placed Leigh knew that a win would not help their
league position, but it would keep them within touching distance of the Rhinos
in third place, while a win for Trinity would see Daryl Powell’s side end the
round in the top half of the table and a playoff position.
It’s honours shared so far in 2025, Trinity winning the
league encounter at the end of March but then losing out in the Challenge Cup
quarter final the following week.
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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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