Leeds Rhinos 13–6 Halifax Blue Sox — Qualifying Final, 1998 Super League Finals Series

Qualifying Final, 1998 Super League finals series: Leeds Rhinos 13–6 Halifax Blue Sox, at Headingley, Leeds on 4 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/2609). Both lineups fetched cleanly on the first pass with real, varied squad numbers (Leeds' Terry Newton at 21, Darren Fleary at 25; Halifax's Jamie Bloem at 26, Fereti Tuilagi at 23) and complete 4-player benches — no position-order renumbering artifact encountered. Halifax Blue Sox is a club not previously seen elsewhere in this backlog, so its squad numbers were given extra scrutiny; this match also cross-validates cleanly against the same club's Elimination Semi-Final lineup a few days later (see that match's caveat for a genuine Pearson/Gibson number-swap resolved there). Coaches confirmed via web search, introducing a name not previously used in this backlog: John Pendlebury (Halifax Blue Sox, tenure 1997-1998 per Rugby League Project's own coaching-record page, which explicitly lists a full 1998 season record of 27 games — no in-season change indicated) alongside Graham Murray (Leeds Rhinos), whose Leeds tenure this round's own club-timeline source confirms began at the very start of the 1998 season in April, one year earlier than the 1998-joining date implied by round 43's 1999-season sourcing — corrected here to the earlier, more precise start date now that 1998 itself is in scope.