Wigan Warriors to face rivals St Helens in Ladies’s Tremendous League Grand Closing

Wigan Warriors will tackle rivals St Helens within the Ladies’s Tremendous League Grand Closing on the Brick Group Stadium on Sunday October 5 – dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 5pm.

It is going to be a repeat of June’s Ladies’s Problem Cup ultimate at Wembley the place a 42-6 victory below the arch secured a primary trophy of the 12 months for Wigan as they swept Saints apart.

The ultimate will he held on the Brick Group Stadium as a result of Wigan securing the League Leaders’ Defend and due to this fact being the highest-ranked Grand Finalist as they search to win the treble.

The Warriors eased previous Leeds Rhinos 38-0 in entrance of two,108 followers – a file for a ladies’s Tremendous League sport – on the Brick.

Talking to Sky Sports activities, Wigan head coach Denis Betts stated: “I really like a zero. The tries had been actually good however I assumed defensively we needed to work exhausting as a result of we tried to overplay a few instances, however that is in our nature in the meanwhile. We need to play with the ball.

“We have grown to some extent the place we really get pleasure from enjoying after we have not acquired the ball and that to me is gold mud.”

Full-back Grace Banks, who turned 20 on Sunday, stated: “It is a privilege and makes my birthday much more particular. It was a forward-dominated sport; it was all by way of the center. Particular credit score to Ruby Hunter on the wing. Coming within the final two video games she’s been unbelievable.

“I believe there is no phrases to explain how good Eva Hunter is at rugby to be trustworthy. She’s a freak. She’s so good and there is no doubt she was going to attain tonight.”

Saints defeated reigning Tremendous League champions York Valkyrie 12-8 in a thriller on the Completely Depraved Stadium.

Participant-of-the-match Katie Mottershead stated: “It was an enormous group effort, particularly digging deep there in the long run. We dug in deep and I stored going after I may.

“That final minutes, I used to be on the bench and could not sit nonetheless.”