Old Trafford is right around the corner! This weekend, four teams will become four in the quest to find the cream of the crop in the 2025 Betfred Super League season. It’s this weekend where the top two enter the play-offs, so let’s see what will be in store for the semi-finals!

Wigan Warriors vs Leigh Leopards. Friday, October 3rd – 8pm. Brick Community Stadium, Wigan

Perhaps the semi-final with the most chatter surrounding it (and not entirely for the right reasons), Wigan Warriors come into this semi-final having just entered the form for which they’re synonymous with after various ups and downs throughout the mid-section of the season. They’ve pulled themselves together since the return of Bevan French, and haven’t lost a game since their home defeat to Hull KR in August.

Leigh also enter this crucial match with momentum behind them, having dismantled Wakefield Trinity during the first week of the play-offs, and on the back of six consecutive victories. They also hold two victories over the Warriors in 2025, and will be out to avenge their 2024 semi-final loss, and go one better in 2025 with a maiden Grand Final appearance. If they can shut out the circus of media attention that has erupted this week, they will prove stiff competition for Wigan. A firecracker of a game is expected at the Brick on Friday night.

Hull KR vs St Helens. Saturday, October 4th – 5.30pm. Sewell Group Craven Park, Hull.

Hull KR will be looking to continue their quest for the treble on Saturday night as they welcome the visit of ten-time Super League champs St Helens. Rovers will be boosted by the return of star winger Joe Burgess, and possibly the return of hooker Micky McIlorum, who will be looking to finish out his career with three trophies, following on from the confirmation last week of his imminent retirement. The Robins looked to be dipping in form towards the end of the regular season, and their hordes of supporters will be hoping that their week off last week was just what the doctor ordered.

Saints travel to Craven Park on the back of a miraculous and pulse-pounding finish to their eliminator against the Leeds Rhinos last week. Whilst the ‘Left to Wright’ try will surely live on in Super League folklore alongside ‘Wide to West’ for years to come, it must be asked what that ending, and indeed that game, took out of Saints, who will be facing much fresher opponents on home soil. Recent memories of KR’s victories against St Helens should be well and truly put out of fans minds, as anything can happen in knock-out rugby, but will a full-strength Rovers team have too much for the battered and bruised Saints? Only time will tell.

Nathan’s Predicted Grand Final: Hull KR vs Leigh Leopards

Ian’s Predicted Grand Final: Hull KR vs Wigan Warriors

Written by Nathan Major (Site editor & Hull KR fan)