Castleford and Leeds returned to winning ways with huge wins.
Rovers came out on top in the Hull derby while St Helens open up an eight-point lead after their summit clash with Warrington.
Our man Nigel Wiskar takes his regular look at the weekend action, drops some awful Bob Marley puns and loses his dog under a waterfall.
1. Tigers pair at the double
No London victory to stir things up in Super League this weekend but a couple of their former players had plenty to celebrate.
Tuoyo Egodo and Mike McMeeken both came through the London system and the pair grabbed two tries each as Castleford moved fourth with a comfortable 42-10 win over the Broncos.
It puts London back to the foot of the table with Leeds, Huddersfield and Hull KR all on 14 points.
With the Giants in freefall, the battle for survival becomes more intriguing by the week
2. Bob does the job
There’s been plenty of wailing going on at Leeds of late.
But the sight of a musician giving it some Bob Marley and telling supporters “don’t worry about a thing” before 31-12 victory over Catalans Dragons appeared to do the trick.
Victory lifted Leeds off the foot of the table and given Marley also sang One Drop, it will have eased the nerves a touch.
That singer could be on to something too.
Expect to hear Three Little Greg Birds, Iron Swinton Lion Zion, I Shot Rikki Sheriffe and a tribute to James Graham, Jammering, at a ground near you soon.
3. Saints snuff out Blake
Warrington need a Plan B.
The Wolves threw a lot at St Helens in that top of the table clash but other than the occasional surge from Daryl Clarke, looked conservative in their options.
Saints had wrapped up kingpin Blake Austin and were limited without his game-breaking surges.
Jake Mamo had a decent game, other than being banged into next week by that Jonny Lomax cruncher which let Luke Thompson in to score.
But he’s no Stefan Ratchford. The sooner the England full-back returns, the better for Warrington.
4. Joe’s dogged performance
One of the few phrases I remember from studying - and I use that word loosely - German at school was ‘Mein hund ist under dem wasserfall’.
It may not surprise you too much to learn this translates as ‘my dog is under the waterfall’.
If I had a dog and if that dog strayed under a waterfall, I’m sure this would be a very handy phrase to use.
So I was able to work out ‘Joe Westerman isn ein harder Hund’ when it appeared on the website of the Bild, Germanys’ leading newspaper (and biggest selling in Europe, journalism trivia fans).
It means he’s a hard dog, or tough cookie, after he popped back his own knee in the Hull derby. They have a point.
Look out for the phrase ‘Jake Connor isn eine massive schlange’ on the site soon enough.
5. Hull spread their wings
A penny for the thoughts of Adam Swift when Hull FC trumpeted they had re-signed Mahe Fonua for next season.
In recent weeks those beasts on the flanks, Ratu Naulogo and Bureta Fairama, have been causing havoc.
And now club legend Fonua is on the way back from Wests Tigers. This is a bloke who won the Challenge Cup and made the Dream Team in both his seasons at the club.
On that basis, Swift would drop from third choice winger at St Helens to fourth at Hull.
Fonua can play centre of course but with Jake Connor, Josh Griffin, Carlos Tuimavave and the up and coming Keiran Buchanan, competition is tight.
All of this is bad news for Swift - and great news for Hull next season.
6. Pass the Parcell pays off
Another penny for the thoughts of Leeds fans after watching Matt Parcell run riot in Rovers’ terrific 18-10 derby victory.
Parcell played like a puppy that had been let off the leash for the first time.
He ran for 130 metres, the most he’d done this season, scored the vital late try to seal the game and was a rapid, dynamic and unpredictable presence throughout.
Parcell, in the same 2017 Dream team as Fonua, was arguably the driving force behind the Rhinos’ Grand Final success that year.
Rhinos have chosen to swap him on loan for Shaun Lunt and Parcell could now even be instrumental in sending his parent club down.
Lunt didn’t even make the starting line-up for Rhinos, pulling out late with an ankle injury.
7. Ditching the dish of the day
Leeds meet Hull KR soon enough with the pair locking horns on Friday, July 12.
Every round now has these must-see clashes at the foot of the table.
But this is one must see that I’d rather not see.
Sky have decided to ditch St Helens v Wigan, a real howler where the cream of the crop is pushed aside for the battle of the desperate, however tasty it is.
It brings to an end 94 televised games between the two with the last derby not on our screens the Regal Trophy quarter final on January 8, 1995.
Subs for Wigan that day were Phil Clarke and Terry O’Connor. Whatever happened to them?
