St Helens’s title win was a great spectacle, but this season’s real legacy might be securing the sport’s long-term future
The final few seconds of the Super League Grand Final will for ever stand as one of the most memorable moments in rugby league history. But the legacy of 2020 and the long-term impact this season will have on the sport runs far deeper.
It was undoubtedly the most dramatic Grand Final in history and perhaps it was only right that a season that hung precariously in the balance for so long throughout the summer was settled by such fine margins. The Saints secured back-to-back titles when Jack Welsby reacted quickest to Tommy Makinson’s drop goal hitting a post with the scores level, consigning Wigan to defeat after the full-time hooter had sounded in Hull on Friday night.
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