St Helens storm back to the top of Super League as they run in 11 tries to batter Castleford on home soil.
St Helens stormed back to the top of Super League as they ran in 11 tries - nine of them unanswered after the break - to batter Castleford on home soil.
And, on a night when they lost Tex Hoy and Alex Mellor, who both failed head injury assessments, the hosts' only try came from Louis Senior.It was a lively opening at the Jungle as Saints went a try up through Mata’utia only to go a man down when Makinson was sent off in the 13th minute for his late hit on Cas full-back Hoy.
And, instead of closing to within two points, when the game restarted, Cas found themselves ten points down when Welsby galloped in to score and Percival this time found his range from the tee. All more than enough to improve their points difference sufficiently to overtake Warrington as leaders. The only Saints setback was what looked a "serious" first-half injury to back-row forward Jake Wingfield, who was helped from the pitch clutching his shoulder."That's as poor a second half as you could possibly get. It was almost like they accepted they would get beaten and they stopped.
"To dish that up at home is a massive leap back. We've got to apologise to the fans and I'll take the flak for it. To concede 52 points in the second half is completely unacceptable.""The response and the resilience we showed during the period when we were down a man was probably the reason we scored so many points at the back end.
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