St Helens 38–30 Leeds Rhinos — Elimination Final, 2001 Super League Finals Series

Elimination Final, 2001 Super League finals series: St Helens 38–30 Leeds Rhinos, at Knowsley Road, St Helens on 22 Sep 2001.

Sourcing caveat: Referee and full try/goal-kicker detail for this match could not be confirmed from reliable sources within this research pass. Reported as an open gap rather than an unverified guess. Lineups sourced this round from Rugby League Project's per-match page (rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/7726). Both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers (e.g. Leeds' Rob Burrow at 29 (Halfback), Gary Mercer at 31 (Second Row); St Helens' Tommy Martyn at 20 (Halfback), Peter Shiels at 8 (Second Row)) rather than a suspicious sequential index, confirmed stable across two independent re-fetches for Leeds specifically. **A genuine positional anomaly was found on St Helens' page and is recorded as printed rather than corrected:** Keiron Cunningham (9) — St Helens' regular Hooker throughout the rest of this file — is printed at Lock, with Mick Higham (24) at Hooker instead. This was checked via two independent re-fetches, both returning the identical arrangement, so it is not a fetch artifact. It is also confirmed as a one-match-only switch rather than an error propagated from a mislabelled source: St Helens' very next finals appearance eight days later (the Elimination Semi-Final v Hull FC, this same round) shows Cunningham back at his normal Hooker berth with Tim Jonkers at Lock, giving good confidence this specific match's listing is a genuine one-off rather than a systematic mislabelling. Follows the same treatment given to Danny McGuire's unusual 2003 Leeds Fullback listing (13bc) and Paul Wellens' unusual 2002 St Helens Halfback listing (13bd). Coaches confirmed via web search: Daryl Powell (Leeds Rhinos — reused from 13bc/13bd's already-established 2001-2003 tenure) and Ian Millward (St Helens — reused from this backlog's already-established March 2000-May 2005 tenure).