Challenge Cup Sixth Round: Halifax Panthers v St Helens LIVE

Welcome to our live coverage of Halifax Panthers’ Challenge Cup sixth round clash with world champions St Helens at The Shay.
The Shay (photo by Simon Hall).The Shay (photo by Simon Hall).
The Shay (photo by Simon Hall).

We’ll bring you the major updates from the game, which evokes memories of Fax’s 1987 Challenge Cup final victory over the Saints at Wembley, as well as a match report after the final hooter and reaction from Panthers’ head coach Simon Grix on the Courier website.

Challenge Cup Sixth Round: Halifax Panthers v St Helens LIVE

Report and reaction

We will have the match report online very soon and reaction with Simon Grix will follow later on tonight. What an evening but it’s the Saints who go marching on into the quarter finals of the Challenge Cup.

Saints players clap the South Stand!

What a moment! Some of the St Helens players go to the Fax fans in the South Stand and applaud them. Magnificent all round.

It’s all over. Halifax bow out of the Challenge Cup with their heads held high. What an atmosphere. Imagine what it’d be like if they’d won. Fantastic support.

Saints are down to 12 men for the final 17 seconds

And now we have a mass brawl

It’s all happening here

The attendance has been given as 4693

That is Fax’s first try against St Helens since...

July 2002!! It was well worth the wait! The Shay is bouncing!

It was Jacob Fairbank who dived over the line after a great inside pass from Lannon.

Halifax 6-26 St Helens

Halifax 6-26 St Helens

A successful conversion from Jouffret as well

What a moment! What a try! Fax have scored a try against the world champions!