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There was a lot of an influential test in the Super League played, but with the 5000th match on the horizon, none had an emblematic comment that “wide to the west”.
Imagine the scene: St Helens faces Bradford Bulls in the play-offs on September 22, 2000. The title champions of the saints entered the elimination part of the season in the second place.
Wigan was first, with Bradford just behind them in third. It was a three -horsepower race to be crowned with the Super League champions.
The opening match of the playoffs had reached fever with Bradford leading 11-10 with only one second to play the chronometer when the immortal moment then occurred.
Sean Long, Kevin Iro, Sean Hoppe, Steve Hall and Tim Jonkers, Dwayne West, then Chris Joynt then set up a piece that would put the old Sky Sports Rugby League The words of the commentator Eddie Hemmings in history books.
“Long fantasies … It’s wide to the west … Dwayne West, inside Joynt … Joynt … Joynt!”
It’s the last game. Long gives it a wide kick in Iro. Iro at Hall, Hall is trapped. Back, he goes to Hoppe, above the shoulder to Hall, there is Jonkers. Here is a long and long fantasy, fantasy. It is wide to the west, it is wide to the west, Dwayne West, inside Joynt, Joynt, Joynt, Joynt! Oh! Oh! Fantastic! They won him. They won him. Chris Joynt won him. It’s amazing here. It is frankly incredible. Chris Joynt won the match for St Helens. What the latest game. What a race. What a test. What a game. What a drama.
St Helens stole the match without there was no time for the chronometer, the head coach of the Bulls Matthew Elliott collapses on the ground in his box of coaches while Knowsley Road entered the pandemonium. St Helens finally won the grand finale against the Rivals of Arch Wigan.
For Hemmings, it is a comment that could only have come from the heart and it is more than proud that it is its heritage.
“It was like a very special test. It was the last game in the match, the final siren had struck, St Helens swept from left to right while we were watching,” he said.
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“I don’t think that, in honesty, I thought that the comment would be as memorable as it was obviously. But I knew it was a very special moment.
“And as all commentators do, we all have our graphics and we all have our biographies. And I have to thank Ian Proctor for that, the man who is the glue that holds the rugby league on Sky Sports together. It is a fantastic statistician.
“Anyway, he gave me all the facts and figures on the old games, the great players, the current players, the heights, the weights, the measurements of the interior legs, the lot. But at that moment, when this test began to take place in front of me, I just put this piece of cardboard and talk about the heart.
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“And as he built and built and built, it was simply fantastic. The crowd helped, of course, because they were on the way with them.
“A fantastic and magical moment. They say that it is the equivalent of the rugby league of” They think it’s over Kenneth Wolstenholme, it is now “. And if this is the case, it is my inheritance and I will die a happy man.”
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While “Wide to West” is to crown glory, during the thousands of Super League games he has covered, he has more than a few protruding facts.
“The first night of Super League in Paris was an incredible start,” he said.
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“The very first grand finale, people said it wouldn’t work.
“” What do you want to start at 6 p.m. on a Saturday evening? Under the lights, you laugh. It will never take off. “It did.
“That night, Jason Robinson under the sticks, it’s a very proud moment.
“Kevin Sinfield, the great Sir Kevin Sinfield being sent. You know, the altar boy being sent. I think he scrambled Luke Dorn. He barely touched him to be fair. And the referee brandished a red card. We were all absolutely breathtaking.
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“The other, of course, was Andy Farrell and Paul Sculthorpe Trading Blows in the Good Friday derby in Knowsley Road. It seems that Knowsley Road has produced magic moments in the history of the Super League.
“It would never happen now because, of course, you are not allowed to punch. But it was an incredible moment.
“Luke Gale abandoned the goal for Castleford Tigers in 2017.
“And of course, Rob Burrow. Burrow also tries against St Helens during the grand finale at Old Trafford. Without a doubt, one of the best tests you will never see.”
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