Leeds were without six members of their Grand Final-winning team through injury and suspension.
Kempsey Rugby Club centre Kullen Beathe, 23, died after a tackle in a grand final match.
But the intimidating capacity home crowd made this clash feel like a Grand Final.
The Ospreys clinched their crown by beating Leinster 17-12 in last season's Grand Final in Dublin.
Widdop scored the match-winning try in the club's under-20 side's grand final victory last season.
Mr Bond also wins an all expenses-paid trip to China for the grand final.
He ran in 20 tries in 26 Super League starts in making an eighth Grand final appearance with Saints.
They take over from Keiron Cunningham, who retired following Saints' Grand Final defeat by Wigan in October.
The arena will open later this month and will host the Superleague netball grand final in May.
Ospreys beat Glasgow 20-5 at the Liberty Stadium to reach the first ever Magners League Grand Final.
Saints were runners up to Wigan in the Grand Final last season after the Warriors won 22-12 at Old Trafford.
He played in all five of Bradford's consecutive Grand Final appearances and won 11 caps for Great Britain.
The winners of both games will play in the Grand Final at Old Trafford on Saturday 10 October.
St Helens have been beaten in the Super League Grand Final by Leeds for the past three seasons.
All three players starred in the club's promotion-winning display in the 2007 National League Grand Final at Headingley.
And Cunningham had to bow out with four successive Grand Final defeats, to add to his four earlier wins.
"I haven't played since the Grand Final and it's four and a half weeks now, " said the Leeds player.
Favourites Widnes, 2010 Championship Grand Final winners Halifax, runners-up Featherstone, Batley and Barrow have all fulfilled the minimum criteria.
The talk has been all about Melbourne since we won the Grand Final.
Another Mid-North Coast Rugby player, Alan McCabe, suffered a serious spinal injury during a separate grand final match on Saturday.
All five clubs have either reached the Grand Final or won the Northern Rail Cup in the last two years.
But, in Saints' last season at Knowsley Road, Cunningham is intent on a fitting finale - with a Grand Final victory.
Lock Jones played his part as the Ospreys campaign ended in their Magners League Grand Final win at Leinster on Saturday.
But he then made way when Long returned for the Grand Final a fortnight later, Saints losing 33-6 at Old Trafford.
He decided to make the switch to the Super League Grand Final winners after his career was stalled by serious injury.
The 20-man squad boasts 12 of the players who beat the New Zealand Warriors 30-8 in the NRL Grand Final in October.
Manly qualified for the world title match by defeating last year's World Club Challenge finalists Melbourne Storm 40-0 in the NRL Grand Final.
Wigan will now travel to Craven Park on 26 September to face Hull KR as they look to make this year's Grand Final.
But Harris returned to rugby league in 2004, joining Bradford, where he helped Noble's side win the 2006 Grand Final and World Club Challenge.
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