Super League: Leaders Hull KR beaten 28-10 at Leigh as Josh Charnley steals show | Rugby Union News
Josh Charnley scored his 250th and 251st Tre League Super League while Leigh put an end to a sequence of six consecutive defeats against Hull Kr by beating the leaders of the Super League 28-10 in the Leigh Sports Village.
The 34 -year -old winger reached his stage with an effort of the 67th minute before retiring again in the last minute of the first victory of Leopards against their visitors since the statement of the Challenge Cup in 2023.
Freshly out of last week’s victory over the Wigan champions, Adrian Lam’s team jumped in third place with this six series display.
The Rovers have been well beaten but remain at the top, two points away from Wigan despite the loss of consecutive matches for the first time since May 2024.
Ethan O’Neill, Umyla Hanley, Keanan Brand and Lachlan Lam also crossed for the local team, Gareth O’Brien kicking two goals, while Tyrone May and Kelepi Tanginoa replied for the Robins.
It was a long wait between Leigh’s points against their visitors, having been laundered in La Chaux in three successive championship games since a defeat in the semi-finals in September 2023.
But this drought ended after eight minutes in the first Leopards attack. The first penalty of the game provided the platform and ended with O’Neill jumping the highest to collect LAM’s kick and tackle in front of the fans of Rovers.
The Rovers’ decision to play Danny Richardson, in place of Man of Steel Mikey Lewis, absent through the protocols of head injury, did not pay dividends.
Richardson was forced with only 16 minutes disappeared, bringing Jez Litten into the action.
Four minutes later, however, Rovers leveled when May gave a gap in the defensive line of Arthur Mourge, the top scorer of the Super League points, at the level.
The Robins threatened a second try while Mourge and James Batchelor got closer while Tanginoa’s effort was prohibited for offside. Leigh has recovered and capitalized on individual errors to record two tests in six minutes. The Hanley Center dotted after 26 minutes because the opposite number, Jack Broadbent, missed his tackle in head.
When Joe Burgess failed to properly gather the kick of O’Brien, Brand recovered the loose ball and spread to mark. O’Brien missed the two attempts to convert but Leigh led 14-6 to the break.
Tanginoa reduced the deficit with a score of the 48th minute while the rare manipulation error of Bailey Hodgson presented the chance.
But this is where the return ended when Lam finished a brilliant break from the center of Bulldozing Tesi Niu after 50 minutes.
Charnley’s reference effort and the last -minute effort sealed the points and confirmed the leopards as real suitors to the grand finale.
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