St Helens 36–8 Leeds Rhinos — Semi-Final, 2021 Super League Finals Series
1 Oct 2021 · Totally Wicked Stadium, St Helens · Attendance: 11,688
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Semi-Final, 2021 Super League finals series: St Helens 36–8 Leeds Rhinos, at Totally Wicked Stadium, St Helens on 1 Oct 2021.
Sourcing caveat: Try minutes for Grace (6' vs 5') and Percival (51'/73' vs 51'/72') vary slightly between the two sources used. Attendance is reported by one source (11,688) while the other omits it. An initial lineup fetch mislabelled three St Helens forwards with a spurious "(c)" captain marker (Mata'utia, Knowles, in addition to the genuine captain Roby) — corrected to show James Roby as the sole captain.
Scoring timeline
| 38′ | Leeds Rhinos — try, Myler |
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
| St Helens | Tries: Grace ~5-6'; Roby; Percival ~51'; Percival ~72-73'; Naiqama; Grace ~78' Goals: Coote (6/6 conversions, incl. 2 penalty goals) Sin bin: Mata'utia (high tackle); Knowles (high tackle) |
| Leeds Rhinos | Tries: Myler 38'; Briscoe Sin bin: T. Briscoe (high tackle); Donaldson (high tackle) |
Team sheets
| St Helens | Leeds Rhinos | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lachlan Coote | Fullback | Richard Myler | 16 |
| 2 | Thomas Makinson | Wing | Luke Briscoe | 24 |
| 3 | Kevin Naiqama | Centre | Harry Newman | 3 |
| 4 | Mark Percival | Centre | Tom Briscoe | 2 |
| 5 | Regan Grace | Wing | Ash Handley | 5 |
| 6 | Jonny Lomax | Five-Eighth | Robert Lui | 6 |
| 21 | Lewis Dodd | Halfback | Kruise Leeming | 9 |
| 8 | Alex Walmsley | Prop | Matt Prior (c) | 10 |
| 9 | James Roby (c) | Hooker | Brad Dwyer | 14 |
| 10 | Matty Lees | Prop | Bodene Thompson | 20 |
| 14 | Sione Mata'utia | Second Row | James Donaldson | 25 |
| 20 | Joe Batchelor | Second Row | Rhyse Martin | 12 |
| 13 | Morgan Knowles | Lock | Zane Tetevano | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 15 | Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook | Konrad Hurrell | 4 | |
| 16 | Kyle Amor | Mikolaj Oledzki | 8 | |
| 17 | Agnatius Paasi | Tom Holroyd | 18 | |
| 18 | Jack Welsby | Cameron Smith | 17 | |
| Kristian Woolf | Coach | Richard Agar | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Chris Kendall |
Match report
St Helens beat Leeds Rhinos 36-8 at Totally Wicked Stadium to secure a third straight Grand Final appearance, leading 14-4 at half-time. Regan Grace (2), James Roby, Mark Percival (2) and Kevin Naiqama all scored tries for Saints, with Lachlan Coote landing all 6 of his goal attempts. Four players were sin-binned across the match for high/dangerous tackles — Sione Mata'utia and Morgan Knowles for St Helens, Tom Briscoe and James Donaldson for Leeds. Richie Myler's 38th-minute try was one of two Leeds replies.