Halifax Blue Sox 30–37 St Helens — Elimination Semi-Final, 1998 Super League Finals Series

Elimination Semi-Final, 1998 Super League finals series: Halifax Blue Sox 30–37 St Helens, at The Shay, Halifax on 9 Oct 1998.

Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. Lineups sourced this round from Rugby League Project's per-match page (rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/2610). St Helens' lineup fetched cleanly and matches this round's own Elimination Final entry for the club exactly, number-for-number. Halifax's lineup initially printed a genuine duplicate shirt number "1" for both Martin Pearson (Fullback) and Damian Gibson (Wing) — not a fetch artifact, resolved via a targeted re-fetch specifically requesting a literal transcription of just these two players, which confirmed the source page's own table prints Pearson at 6 and Gibson at 1: the two players have swapped positions (Pearson to Fullback, Gibson to Wing) from Halifax's Qualifying Final lineup four days earlier while each keeping his own consistent squad number, which is exactly what the re-fetch found and is recorded here as printed rather than as an "UNCONFIRMED" duplicate. No other renumbering issues were found on this page; both benches were complete (4 of 4). Coaches: Shaun McRae (St Helens) and John Pendlebury (Halifax Blue Sox), both reused from this round's already-established 1998 tenures confirmed earlier in this file.