Leeds Rhinos 20–13 St Helens — Semi-Final, 2015 Super League Finals Series
2 Oct 2015 · Headingley, Leeds · Attendance: 17,192
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Semi-Final, 2015 Super League finals series: Leeds Rhinos 20–13 St Helens, at Headingley, Leeds on 2 Oct 2015.
Sourcing caveat: Sky Sports' scoring summary listed a 4th Sinfield conversion time (27') that doesn't correspond to any listed try — treated as a likely data artifact rather than a real event, so Sinfield's exact successful-conversion count is not asserted with full confidence here (the 3 confirmed Leeds tries plus the reported drop-goal/conversion detail is what the 20-13 score is built from). No sin bins/cards were identified in sources found. Rugby League Project's own page lists only 3 of Leeds' usual 4 interchange names for this match (Jamie Peacock, Brad Singleton, Jimmy Keinhorst) — no 4th name found anywhere, recorded as-is rather than guessed, the same pattern used for several other "only 3 bench names in the source" cases earlier in this backlog. Leeds' starting-13/bench split here differs from the Grand Final 8 days later (Peacock and Singleton start in the Grand Final; here they're among the bench) — a genuine, RLP-confirmed rotation difference between the two matches, not an error.
Scoring timeline
| 21′ | Leeds Rhinos — try, Hardaker |
| 59′ | St Helens — try, Percival |
| 68′ | Leeds Rhinos — try, Hall |
Tries with a sourced minute, in order scored, with the conversion kicked/missed alongside each one where source data lets us match a kicker to that specific try. Tries whose exact minute isn't recorded in available sources appear in the Scorers table below but not here; goal tallies we can't attribute to one specific try are shown as descriptive text in Scorers rather than guessed into this timeline.
Scorers
| Leeds Rhinos | Tries: Hardaker 21'; Hall 68'; Watkins 79' (his 100th career try) Goals: Sinfield (conversions — exact count not fully confirmed, see caveat) |
| St Helens | Tries: Roby 5' (35m individual run); Percival 59' Goals: Walsh (2 conversions) Drop goals: Walsh 39' (put St Helens 9-8 up at half-time) |
Team sheets
| Leeds Rhinos | St Helens | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zak Hardaker | Fullback | Adam Quinlan | 37 |
| 2 | Tom Briscoe | Wing | Tommy Makinson | 2 |
| 3 | Kallum Watkins | Centre | Mark Percival | 17 |
| 4 | Joel Moon | Centre | Josh Jones | 4 |
| 5 | Ryan Hall | Wing | Adam Swift | 5 |
| 13 | Kevin Sinfield (c) | Five-Eighth | Jordan Turner | 3 |
| 6 | Danny McGuire | Halfback | Luke Walsh | 7 |
| 30 | Mitch Garbutt | Prop | Mose Masoe | 8 |
| 7 | Rob Burrow | Hooker | James Roby | 9 |
| 8 | Kylie Leuluai | Prop | Kyle Amor | 10 |
| 12 | Carl Ablett | Second Row | Atelea Vea | 11 |
| 15 | Brett Delaney | Second Row | Jon Wilkin (c) | 12 |
| 17 | Adam Cuthbertson | Lock | Mark Flanagan | 15 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 10 | Jamie Peacock | Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook | 13 | |
| 19 | Brad Singleton | Alex Walmsley | 14 | |
| 20 | Jimmy Keinhorst | Joe Greenwood | 21 | |
| Andre Savelio | 25 | |||
| Brian McDermott | Coach | Keiron Cunningham | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Robert Hicks |
Match report
Leeds Rhinos beat St Helens 20-13 at Headingley, with Zak Hardaker, Ryan Hall and Kallum Watkins — whose try was his 100th career score — crossing for Leeds. St Helens led 9-8 at half-time via a James Roby 35-metre individual try and a Luke Walsh drop goal, before Leeds took control in the second half; a Carl Ablett try was disallowed for Leeds on video referral, and Mark Percival's try was St Helens' late reply.