St Helens 15–2 Huddersfield Giants — Qualifying Play-off, 2009 Super League Finals Series
19 Sep 2009 · Knowsley Road, St Helens · Attendance: 6,157
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Qualifying Play-off, 2009 Super League finals series: St Helens 15–2 Huddersfield Giants, at Knowsley Road, St Helens on 19 Sep 2009.
Sourcing caveat: The exact conversion tally for Eastmond and Huddersfield's single 2-point score (likely a Brett Hodgson penalty goal, though not explicitly labelled as such in the source) are inferred to fit the final score rather than explicitly itemized by the source — Huddersfield's scorer isn't listed here since it can't be confirmed by name. Huddersfield's Brett Hodgson — an established specialist fullback — is shown at five-eighth, with Leroy Cudjoe at fullback, on Rugby League Project's own page for this match; re-checked twice with an explicit instruction not to assume normal real-life positions, with the same result both times, so it's recorded as printed rather than "corrected" to the more familiar alignment. Hodgson starts at his usual fullback (with Cudjoe on the wing) in this backlog's other 2009 Huddersfield entry, so this specific match's alignment may be a genuine one-off tactical switch.
Scorers
| St Helens | Tries: Meli; Pryce; Puletua Goals: Eastmond (conversions) Drop goals: Long |
| Huddersfield Giants | No scorers recorded. |
Team sheets
| St Helens | Huddersfield Giants | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Wellens | Fullback | Leroy Cudjoe | 21 |
| 2 | Ade Gardner | Wing | Martin Aspinwall | 2 |
| 3 | Matthew Gidley | Centre | Michael Lawrence | 19 |
| 18 | Kyle Eastmond | Centre | Simon Finnigan | 14 |
| 5 | Francis Meli | Wing | David Hodgson | 5 |
| 6 | Leon Pryce | Five-Eighth | Brett Hodgson | 1 |
| 7 | Sean Long | Halfback | Luke Robinson | 7 |
| 10 | James Graham | Prop | Danny Sculthorpe | 33 |
| 9 | Keiron Cunningham | Hooker | Liam Fulton | 6 |
| 16 | Tony Puletua | Prop | Paul Jackson | 15 |
| 13 | Chris Flannery | Second Row | Stephen Wild | 13 |
| 12 | Jon Wilkin | Second Row | Andy Raleigh | 12 |
| 11 | Lee Gilmour | Lock | Paul Whatuira | 4 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 14 | James Roby | Eorl Crabtree | 8 | |
| 15 | Bryn Hargreaves | Darrell Griffin | 10 | |
| 17 | Paul Clough | Shaun Lunt | 24 | |
| 23 | Maurie Fa'asavalu | Larne Patrick | 30 | |
| Mike Rush | Coach | Nathan Brown | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Richard Silverwood |
Match report
St Helens beat Huddersfield Giants 15-2 at Knowsley Road on 19 September 2009 in a Super League Qualifying Play-off, leading 14-2 at half-time. Saints shut Huddersfield out almost completely, scoring three first-half tries and coasting home to take third seed off the Giants for the semi-final round.