Why run against Saints has gone from dismal to embarrassing ...

It's almost like a Faustian pact, Leeds Rhinos paying now with defeat after defeat for all those Grand Final victories over St Helens more than a decade ago.

- by Peter Smith

Everything was in Rhinos' favour last weekend, but nobody - on either side - will have been particularly surprised when Saints got the better of them, yet again. That's eight successive defeats at AMT Headingley - including three nillings - in a run stretching back to 2017.

Rhinos have won three of the sides' last 24 meetings and it has gone past dismal into embarrassing.

Pride aside, it was a costly result, dropping Leeds two places to fifth in Betfred Super League. Here's five talking points.

The referee.