Warrington Wolves 6–40 Hull FC — Elimination Play-off, 2005 Super League Finals Series

Elimination Play-off, 2005 Super League finals series: Warrington Wolves 6–40 Hull FC, at Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington on 24 Sep 2005.

Sourcing caveat: Hull's five named tries plus six goals total 32, eight points short of their actual 40 — confirmed this is a gap in Rugby League Project's own scoresheet for this match, not a transcription error; at least one further Hull try-scorer is unaccounted for and could not be resolved against other sources found. Warrington's side is now fully resolved: Andrew Johns scored the try himself as well as converting it (previously the try itself was missing from this entry, leaving Warrington's score short). Both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers and no suspicious sequential index, so no re-fetch was needed. Andrew Johns's number, 31, stood out as unusually high for a starting halfback — plausible given he was a short-term, late-season guest signing for Warrington in September 2005 (a Warrington Wolves social-media retrospective confirms this was his Wire debut), a pattern this backlog has seen before for mid-season overseas arrivals given high squad numbers; no independent second source with an explicit number could be found to further corroborate it, so it is accepted as printed rather than flagged UNCONFIRMED. Hull FC's numbering here cross-matched almost exactly with the club's Elimination Semi-Final appearance the following week, with one clean personnel swap (Sione Faumuina in for Danny Brough) discussed in that match's own caveat. Coaches confirmed via web search: Paul Cullen (Warrington — already established by 13az as having begun his tenure in 2005, corroborated by a Warrington Wolves Foundation retrospective post) and John Kear (Hull FC — Love Rugby League's ranking of Hull FC's Super League-era coaches states Kear took charge "ahead of the 2005 season" and left in April 2006, when Peter Sharp — already established as Hull's 2006-2008 coach by 13ay/13az — took over; Kear's Hull tenure precedes, and is distinct from, his already-established 2006-2011 Wakefield tenure from 13aw).