Leeds Rhinos 22–23 Wigan Warriors — Elimination Final, 2003 Super League Finals Series

Elimination Final, 2003 Super League finals series: Leeds Rhinos 22–23 Wigan Warriors, at Headingley, Leeds on 10 Oct 2003.

Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. Both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers and no suspicious sequential index, so no re-fetch was needed for the numbers themselves. Leeds fielded an unusual back-three combination for this match, with Danny McGuire (6) printed at Fullback and Richard Mathers (21) — Leeds' regular Fullback in the Qualifying Semi-Final the week before — shifted out to Wing; this was double-checked via a targeted re-fetch focused specifically on these two players' printed positions, which confirmed the same assignment both times, so it is recorded as printed. No independent second source (Wikipedia, contemporary press) was found describing this specific positional switch, and McGuire is not otherwise documented as having played Fullback at any point in his career, so this is flagged here as a genuine but uncorroborated anomaly rather than a fetch artifact. For Wigan, Luke Robinson (20) started at Halfback in place of Adrian Lam, who dropped out of the 22 entirely (an apparent injury absence), with Mark Smith (17) filling Robinson's vacated bench slot; otherwise Wigan's starting thirteen and the rest of its bench were unchanged from its two earlier 2003 finals appearances. Kevin Sinfield's conversions and Danny Tickle's field goal directly corroborate their listed shirt numbers. No duplicate or missing shirt numbers were encountered. Coaches reused from this round's own already-established findings: Daryl Powell (Leeds) and Mike Gregory (Wigan).