St Helens head coach Paul Rowley has stepped down from his position with the Super League club with immediate effect less than a year into the role.
The 51-year-old joined the club before the 2026 season, having previously taken charge at Salford Red Devils, ending his tenure there after their financially-challenged 2025 campaign.
Since joining Saints, however, the club have struggled for form and, with an injury crisis, are currently sixth in the table and six points behind leaders Leeds Rhinos.
They have also lost six of their past 10 games in all competitions with Rowley's departure announced prior to Friday's derby against Wigan Warriors.
More to follow.

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Leeds Rhinos finished the regular season with a 56-10 victory that ended Huddersfield Giants' hopes of making the cut for the top four.
The Giants began the day knowing a win at Laund Hill and defeat for York Valkyrie away to bottom club Barrow Raiders would see them join Wigan Warriors, Leeds and St Helens in the extended top-four play-off series.
That faint hope was quashed in the opening nine minutes as Leeds took control through tries from Lucy Murray, Liv Whitehead and Kaiya Glynn, all converted by Mel Howard.
Tries from Becky Grady and Faye Barraclough, either side of a Connie Boyd score for Leeds, brought some hope to the home side, but the Rhinos ran away with the game as Shannon Brown crashed over and Boyd scored her second to make it 34-10 at half-time.
The second half was a procession as Lois Naidole scored a try against her former club, Evie Cousins marked her return to action with two more, and Whitehead scored her own second to secure second place for Rhinos and condemn Giants to the bottom four play-offs.

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Betfred Super League
St Helens (0) 0
Toulouse (20) 46
Tries: Jussaume 3, O'Kane, Chan, Ulberg, Tropis, Laguerre Goals: Shorrocks 7

Preston North End have signed Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Alfie Devine for a club-record fee on a five-year contract.
The fee is undisclosed but the Championship club have said it is "almost three times" the fee they paid for Portsmouth forward Callum Lang in February, which was reported to be around £2m.
Devine, 21, scored eight goals in 45 league appearances on loan with the Lilywhites last season.
He came through Wigan's academy before joining Spurs in August 2020 and is their youngest-ever goalscorer after getting on the scoresheet in the FA Cup win at non-league Marine aged 16 years and 163 days in January 2021.
"From the end of last season going into the summer, it was always a priority in terms of where I wanted to be. It took its time, but I'm delighted it's gone through," Devine, whose father Sean played rugby league for St Helens, told the club website.

Betfred Super League Magic WKND
Wigan (6) 16
Tries: Keighran, Field, Eckersley Goals: Keighran 2
St Helens (8) 14
Tries: Davies, Welsby Goals: Hastings 2, Sailor

Betfred Super League
Bradford (10) 10
Tries: Steinwede Goals: Atkin, Hooley 2
St Helens (12) 40
Tries: Douglas, Sironen, Welsby 2, Shorrocks, Hastings Goals: Hastings 8

Betfred Super League
St Helens (16) 38
Tries: Sironen 2, Macdonald, Walmsley, Robertson, Davies 2 Goals: Hastings 5
Huddersfield (0) 6
Try: Geyer Goal: Flanagan

Scientists studying volcanoes have long thought that rising magma rich in gas bubbles should quickly zip to the top of a volcano and erupt.
But famous eruptions, like Chile’s Quizapu and Mount St. Helens in Washington state, haven’t fit this mold. Between 1846 and 1847, Quizapu gently unloaded one of South America’s largest lava flows ever documented, leaving behind piles of rock spanning some 20 square miles.
And months before Mount St. Helens erupted for nine hours in 1980, something strange happened: Lava chock-full of gas and seemingly primed to quickly explode instead leisurely flowed i