St Helens 30–12 Catalans Dragons — Qualifying Semi-Final, 2014 Super League Finals Series
2 Oct 2014 · Langtree Park, St Helens · Attendance: 8,888
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Qualifying Semi-Final, 2014 Super League finals series: St Helens 30–12 Catalans Dragons, at Langtree Park, St Helens on 2 Oct 2014.
Sourcing caveat: One AI-summarized source pass mis-stated the date as "30 September" (a Tuesday, not a playoff matchday) — 2 October is used here per Rugby League Project's day-of-week-verified table. Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. St Helens' jersey numbers were cross-checked against a St Helens RFC squad-announcement article dated 30 September 2014 (the day before this match), which confirms the 19-man squad pool and every number used here — Rugby League Project's own page for this match had several numbers wrong (sequential-looking 3/4/7/10/11/12 instead of the real 22/4/15/16/10/28 etc.) and was missing one of the two starting props; Kyle Amor is placed there as the second prop since he's independently confirmed in the same day's official squad pool and already established as a regular prop elsewhere in this file, though his specific starting-vs-bench role for this exact match isn't separately confirmed.
Scorers
| St Helens | Tries: Manu; Masoe; Percival; Swift; Turner Goals: Percival (5 conversions) |
| Catalans Dragons | Tries: Escaré; Oldfield Goals: Bosc (2 conversions) |
Team sheets
| St Helens | Catalans Dragons | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Paul Wellens | Fullback | Morgan Escaré | 2 |
| 2 | Tommy Makinson | Wing | Michael Oldfield | 5 |
| 22 | Mark Percival | Centre | Ben Pomeroy | 4 |
| 4 | Josh Jones | Centre | Vincent Duport | 25 |
| 5 | Adam Swift | Wing | Daryl Millard | 18 |
| 6 | Lance Hohaia | Five-Eighth | Thomas Bosc | 6 |
| 15 | Mark Flanagan | Halfback | Sam Williams | 7 |
| 8 | Mose Masoe | Prop | Olivier Elima | 8 |
| 9 | James Roby | Hooker | Ian Henderson | 9 |
| 16 | Kyle Amor | Prop | Louis Anderson | 12 |
| 10 | Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook | Second Row | Zeb Taia | 11 |
| 28 | Luke Thompson | Second Row | Elliott Whitehead | 17 |
| 3 | Jordan Turner | Lock | Grégory Mounis | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 11 | Iosia Soliola | Jeff Lima | 10 | |
| 13 | Willie Manu | Éloi Pélissier | 16 | |
| 14 | Anthony Laffranchi | Julian Bousquet | 21 | |
| 18 | Alex Walmsley | Benjamin Garcia | 29 | |
| Nathan Brown | Coach | Laurent Frayssinous | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Richard Silverwood |
Match report
St Helens beat Catalans Dragons 30-12 at Langtree Park on 2 October 2014 in a Super League Qualifying Semi-Final — this was the match St Helens selected for themselves under the era's "club call" rule, choosing Catalans over Warrington Wolves as their opponent, per a Sky Sports report quoting St Helens chairman Eamonn McManus. Morgan Escaré's early try gave Catalans a shock lead, but Jordan Turner and Adam Swift put Saints 12-6 up at half-time; Saints dominated after the break with tries from Willie Manu, Mose Masoe and Mark Percival to book their first Grand Final since 2011, with Catalans' three-games-in-three-weeks run and squad depletion cited as a factor.