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Leigh Leopards ended their unbeaten start to Hull KR with their first win since gaining promotion; Steve McNamara did not get carried away after the Catalans Dragons won again; Huddersfield Giants edged out Wakefield Trinity; Liam Marshall starred as Wigan Warriors beat Castleford Tigers
Last updated: 03/03/23 11:54
Leigh players celebrate after their victory away to Hull KR
We wrap up Friday’s Super League action as Leigh Leopards claimed their first win since winning promotion, while Catalans Dragons, Huddersfield Giants and Wigan Warriors also won…
Catalans Dragons 38-6 Hull FC (18.00)
Steve McNamara decided to keep his side’s feet on the floor after the Catalans Dragons made it three wins from three with a resounding win over Hull FC in Perpignan.
The Dragons maintained a perfect start to the season when they went through for six tries through Tom Johnstone, Paul Seguier, Mickael Goudemand, Siua Taukeiaho, Adam Keighran and Ben Garcia.
The only response for Hull FC, who opened the season with wins over Castleford Tigers and Leeds Rhinos, came through Andre Savelio at the end. However, Catalans head coach McNamara remains absent.
“It’s too far to draw conclusions, but I’m very proud of our performance tonight,” McNamara said. “We were really good tonight, but we weren’t going to get carried away.
“It’s only Round 3. Hull is a good side, and it just didn’t happen for them tonight.”
Tom Johnstone scored a try for Catalans’ win against Hull FC
Hull FC head coach Tony Smith criticized his side’s “flat” performance as they suffered their first defeat of the season.
“He was good from the start, but not necessarily good,” Smith said. “We were flat as pancakes, and they carried out the plan.”
Wakefield Trinity 0-8 Huddersfield Giants (7.45pm)
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Highlights of the Super League match between Wakefield Trinity and Huddersfield Giants
Mark Applegarth insisted there was no doom and gloom at Wakefield Trinity after they went down 8-0 to Huddersfield Giants.
The result means Wakefield are yet to win a game this season and are bottom of the Super League after three matches.
Trinity were hammered 60-0 by Wigan Warriors last week, and failed to pick up a single point for the second week in a row, but Applegarth is confident there is no panic in the relegation favourites.
“We’re in Round 3 and we’ve played three of the top four last year, let’s not panic now,” Applegarth said.
“It’s not doom and gloom by any means. There’s a lot of work to be done and a lot of things to do.
“The effort and the application is there, we just have to be smarter in certain parts of the field. We have to combine our attack that we showed against the Catalans and our defense that we showed tonight.”
Joe Greenwood celebrates scoring the only try of the game in Huddersfield’s win at Wakefield
The first half ended scoreless as neither side could break open the other’s defence, but Joe Greenwood struck in the second half with a powerful run and Tui Lolohea bagged two goals to secure Huddersfield’s first win of the season.
“It was tough and it paid off,” Giants head coach Ian Watson said. “We knew they were going to come today and play for pride.
“For them, they have to work and for us it’s nil and our defense. It’s a very good arm-wrestling mentality there. To keep a team in the Super League to nil, that’s a big ask.”
Hull Kingston Rovers 25-30 Leigh Leopards (8pm)
Adrian Lam believes his Leigh Leopards side still have a lot of work to do despite recording their first win of the new season away to previously unbeaten Hull Kingston Rovers.
Leigh scored five tries with Tom Briscoe and Josh Charnley claiming two each after Tom Amone had opened his account. Ben Reynolds made no mistake as he also added five conversions.
However, head coach Lam warned that the players cannot stop and that there is still room for improvement.
“We are still far from where we want to be,” Lam said. “We left five or six tries on the field.
“They’ve played some good rugby and it’s always difficult to come here and get a win. All we can do is focus on us and stick to our process and our belief.
“We’ve just kept going and there’s been a lot of hard lessons learned over the last two weeks. We’re working hard to make sure our combination works together.”
Hull KR’s Mikey Lewis couldn’t stop Leigh’s Josh Charnley from scoring the winning try
Rovers’ tries came from Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Mikey Lewis, James Batchelor and Jordan Abdull who also kicked drop goals, while Will Dagger kicked four conversions, and head coach Willie Peters felt his side were paying the price for not seeing. win from a commanding position.
“We were in front the majority of the game we never got comfortable,” Peters said. “Credit to Leigh he really hung in there.
“Any loss is not good, but if we lose, it will hurt us a lot tonight. We definitely have to close the game better than we did.”
Castleford Tigers 0-36 Wigan Warriors (8pm)
Liam Marshall maintained his start to the Super League season with a hat-trick as Wigan punished Castleford with a third straight defeat with a 36-0 win.
The Warriors winger originally touched down to open the scoring at the end of a tightly contested first half and from there Matt Peet’s side never looked back.
Ethan Havard added a second try from close range early in the second half before Marshall grabbed his second from long range. Toby King and Jai Field also went over for the visitors before Marshall grabbed a third in the final minute.
Liam Marshall grabbed a hat-trick as Wigan won at Castleford
Wigan’s second win from three Super League games saw Castleford still on pace to take any points of the season, while Marshall’s clinical treble took his tally for the season to eight.
He has now scored 103 tries for Wigan, who responded well to their opening round defeat at Hull KR.
They hammered Wakefield 60-0 last week and it was enough to beat Lee Radford’s Tigers, who lost captain Paul McShane to injury early in his 200th appearance for the club.
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