Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 16–25 Catalans Dragons — Elimination Play-off, 2009 Super League Finals Series
19 Sep 2009 · Belle Vue, Wakefield · Attendance: 4,008
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Elimination Play-off, 2009 Super League finals series: Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 16–25 Catalans Dragons, at Belle Vue, Wakefield on 19 Sep 2009.
Sourcing caveat: Catalans' scoring previously listed only 3 tries plus 4 goals and a field goal (21 points), four short of the real 25 — Rugby League Project's scoresheet confirms Thomas Bosc scored a try himself in addition to his kicking, which now reconciles exactly. Both teams' squad numbers on Rugby League Project's own page for this match were genuine (non-sequential) shirt numbers, not the position-order renumbering seen elsewhere in this backlog. Catalans Dragons fielded the same unchanged 17-man squad (same 13 starters in the same shirt numbers, same 4 bench players) in all three of their 2009 finals-series matches recorded in this file — this entry, the Preliminary Semi-Final against Huddersfield, and the Qualifying Semi-Final against Leeds — cross-confirmed independently across all three source pages.
Scorers
| Wakefield Trinity Wildcats | Tries: George (2); Atkins Goals: Drew (2/2 conversions) |
| Catalans Dragons | Tries: Pelo; Duport; Elima; Bosc Goals: Bosc (4/4 conversions) Drop goals: Bosc |
Team sheets
| Wakefield Trinity Wildcats | Catalans Dragons | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Blaymire | Fullback | Clint Greenshields | 1 |
| 26 | Luke George | Wing | Vincent Duport | 18 |
| 8 | Jason Demetriou | Centre | Sébastien Raguin | 11 |
| 4 | Ryan Atkins | Centre | Jean-Philippe Baile | 15 |
| 27 | Aaron Murphy | Wing | Dimitri Pelo | 5 |
| 13 | Scott Grix | Five-Eighth | Adam Mogg | 4 |
| 14 | Sam Obst | Halfback | Thomas Bosc | 6 |
| 15 | James Stosic | Prop | Jason Ryles | 23 |
| 9 | Brad Drew | Hooker | Casey McGuire | 9 |
| 23 | Michael Korkidas | Prop | Jérôme Guisset | 10 |
| 11 | Steve Snitch | Second Row | Olivier Elima | 16 |
| 12 | Oliver Wilkes | Second Row | Cyrille Gossard | 17 |
| 24 | Dale Ferguson | Lock | Greg Bird | 26 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 18 | Frank Winterstein | David Ferriol | 8 | |
| 25 | Richard Moore | Dane Carlaw | 14 | |
| 20 | Tevita Leo-Latu | Julien Touxagas | 19 | |
| 17 | Kevin Henderson | Rémi Casty | 24 | |
| John Kear | Coach | Kevin Walters | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Phil Bentham |
Match report
Catalans Dragons beat Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 25-16 at Belle Vue on 19 September 2009 in a Super League Elimination Play-off, leading 16-2 at half-time before a Wakefield fightback closed the gap in the second half. Catalans' win set up a Week 2 trip to Huddersfield.