Saints march on
Saints march on
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Friday, 24, Mar 2006 10:19
St Helens continued their perfect start to the season with a 46-0 thrashing of Hull at the KC Stadium.
The Saints have won seven out of seven games at the start of this year's Super League.
St Helens have not won in their past three trips to Hull, scoring just 36 points in those matches.
Leon Pryce and Francis Meli both continued their blistering early season form with two tries a piece.
The match was effectively over by the interval when the hosts trailed by 30-0 ensuring their fourth defeat in the opening five games of Super League XI.
Jamie Lyon was the best player on the pitch as the reigning 'man of steel' toyed with Hull. He opened the scoring with a penalty and seized control of the game after that.
At the other end of the table Wigan's season went from bad to worse as yet another defeat saw them plummet to the very foot of the table.
Warriors crashed to a 34-12 defeat at the hands of Bradford. The Bulls piled on the misery by scoring seven tries in a fog-bound encounter.