Leeds Rhinos 36–22 Hull FC — Elimination Play-off, 2002 Super League Finals Series

Elimination Play-off, 2002 Super League finals series: Leeds Rhinos 36–22 Hull FC, at Headingley, Leeds on 27 Sep 2002.

Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. This is the first 2002-season match sourced in this backlog; both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers (e.g. Leeds' Richard Mathers at 30 (Wing), Danny Ward at 18 (Prop); Hull's Graham Mackay at 33 (Centre), Paul Cooke at 16 (Five-Eighth)) rather than a suspicious sequential 1-13 index, so no re-fetch was needed. No duplicate or missing shirt numbers were encountered for either team. Leeds' starting thirteen and bench cross-matched almost exactly against its Elimination Semi-Final appearance against Wigan the following week (only change: Karl Pratt in for Richard Mathers at Wing, with Danny McGuire (23) dropping out of the bench for Tonie Carroll (3)), giving strong confidence in its numbers. Keith Senior's hat-trick and Mark Calderwood's brace directly corroborate their listed shirt numbers and positions. Coaches confirmed via web search: Daryl Powell (Leeds Rhinos — his Wikipedia biography and the Yorkshire Evening Post's ranking of Leeds' Super League-era coaches both place his tenure across 2001-2003, fully covering this September 2002 match, consistent with 13bc's already-established finding for the same coach one season later) and Shaun McRae (Hull FC — his Wikipedia biography gives a Hull tenure of October 1999 to 2004, fully covering this match).