St Helens 38–14 Leeds Rhinos — Qualifying Final, 1999 Super League Finals Series

Qualifying Final, 1999 Super League finals series: St Helens 38–14 Leeds Rhinos, at Knowsley Road, St Helens on 17 Sep 1999.

Sourcing caveat: St Helens' scorer list does not fully reconcile: the eight individually-named try-scorers (Newlove x2, Smith x2, Sullivan x2, Joynt, Tuilagi) plus four goals total 40 points, two more than the actual 38 — a genuine discrepancy in the source that could not be resolved, so individual try-scorer names are omitted here rather than publishing a list known not to add up; only the confirmed goal-kickers are shown. Leeds' scoring reconciles exactly. Lineups sourced this round (round 43 of the lineups backlog, the first season older than 13bf's 2000) from Rugby League Project's own per-match page (rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/3302), found via a fresh browse of the season summary — the season-summary page itself uses the plain `super-league-1999` slug rather than a roman-numeral form, consistent with prior rounds' findings (a `super-league-iv-1999` roman-numeral variant also surfaced incidentally during coach research but was not needed to reach the match pages). Both starting thirteens fetched cleanly, confirmed via two independent passes (an initial summary fetch and a targeted re-fetch requesting a raw literal table transcription), with real, varied squad numbers throughout (St Helens' Chris Smith at 14, Sonny Nickle at 21, Des Clark at 22; Leeds' Keith Senior at 23, Kevin Sinfield at 25) rather than any suspicious sequential 1-17 index — no position-order renumbering artifact was encountered on this match page, contrary to the brief's warning that the issue would likely worsen for this, the oldest season attempted in the backlog so far. Both benches were complete (4 of 4) on the fetch. Coaches confirmed via web search, introducing two names not previously used in this backlog: Ellery Hanley (St Helens — confirmed via Rugby League Project's own coaching-record page, which gives his St Helens tenure as 1999-2000, independently corroborated as covering the full 1999 season by a Shaun McRae biography noting McRae left St Helens at the end of 1998; Ian Millward, used throughout 13bc-13bf's 2000-2003 entries, did not take over until partway through the 2000 season) and Graham Murray (Leeds Rhinos — confirmed via a Leeds Rhinos club-history retrospective stating he joined in 1998 and left at the end of the 1999 season following that year's Challenge Cup Final win, fully covering this September 1999 match; Dean Lance, used throughout 13bf's 2000 entries, did not take over until 2000).