In addition to the magnificent game at the Halliwell Jones Stadium another Super League encounter was taking place in the South of France where St Helens travelled to tackle Catalans Dragons.
This ended with a 42-12 victory for Saints with the Dragons being hampered due to the sending off of French international skipper Olivier Elima.
It was Catalans that made an excellent start thanks to tries from Chris Walker and Setaimata Sa but when leading 8-4, Elima was marched for an incident involving Johnny Lomax who had scored the first try for the visitors.
Lomax grabbed a second before further tries from Francis Meli and Matt Gidley handed Saints an 18-8 half-time lead.
St Helens took control of the contest in the first ten minutes of the second half with further tries from Maurie Fa'asavalu, Kyle Eastmond and Meli added further tries. Gidley also added his second try to put the Sints 42-12 up before a late try from Walker put the hosts into double figures.
On Sunday Huddersfield Giants were big winners over at New Craven Park, beating an underdone Hull KR 30-0.
The Giants led 18-0 at half-time and despite not really impressing their boss Nathan Brown in the second period, still scored a couple more tries to claim victory.
Shaun Lunt, David Hodgson and Larne Patrick scored first half tries. Hodgson went on to claim a hat-trick in the second half and the game was a mere formaility by the time Leroy Cudjoe scored an unconverted try. Brett Hodgson finished with three goals.
Another encouraging crowd of over 6700 was on hand at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground to see Crusaders win back to back games for the first time since they were admitted to Super League.
Hull were the visitors and both teams scored three tries each with the goal-kicking and general play of halfback Michael Witt the difference.
Wing Nick Youngquest scored the first try of the game before Lee Radford powered through a gap to equalise. An easy try followed for Tom Briscoe with Craig Fitzgibbon a man on form with two conversions and some sound play.
Witt went in for a try before the interval and added the conversion to again lock the game up at 12-12. A good kick after 50 minutes then saw centre Kirk Yeaman get the scoring touch but that try went unconverted.
Youngquest then claimed his second try 11 minutes from the end, Witt converted from wide out and some good defence saw Crusaders win through.
SATURDAY
Catalans Dragons 12 ST HELENS 42
SUNDAY
Hull Kingston Rovers 0 HUDDERSFIELD 30
CRUSADERS 18 Hull 16
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