The Leopards have been the great disruptors since their promotion to Super League in 2022, with three successive top-five finishes and an unforgettable Challenge Cup success in 2023.<\/p>\n
But four straight losses \u2013 their worst run in that period – had them in the unusual position of penultimate in the table, but Charnley’s walk-in try inside the opening two minutes eased any nerves.<\/p>\n
Nice work from Lachlan Lam and Tesi Niu put opposite winger Senior in for his fourth try of the season, before another simple finish from veteran Charnley gave the Leopards a good cushion in the opening quarter.<\/p>\n
And when Horne benefited from Lam’s fast feet to add Leigh’s fourth try, only one outcome looked likely.<\/p>\n
Toulouse had given St Helens and Wigan Warriors big starts before starting to play in their previous two games, and they did the same here.<\/p>\n
Tropis got them on the board before half-time and Laguerre’s score after a huge dipping pass from Olly Ashall-Bott got them back into the game.<\/p>\n
Leopards forward Ryan Brown was sin-binned for a late tackle and, with a man extra, the French side took advantage as Laguerre jinked and side-stepped his way past three defenders to reduce it to a two-point game.<\/p>\n
Brendan Hands then thought he had put them ahead when he touched down, but he was adjudged to have been offside in the build-up.<\/p>\n
However, Shorrocks’ penalty with five seconds remaining took the game into extra minutes as Toulouse dug deep.<\/p>\n
But O’Brien slotted over a drop goal in the first half of the two five-minute periods to settle this unlikely thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leopards have been the great disruptors since their promotion to Super League in 2022, with three successive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}