Bradford Bulls

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Bradford Bulls

Full name	Bradford Bulls Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s)	Bulls
Ground	Grattan Stadium, Bradford (Capacity 27,000 - 5,000 Seats)
Chairman	Peter Hood
Coach	Steve McNamara
Captain	Paul Deacon
League	Super League
2008 position	5th
Founded	1907 (Bradford Northern)
Championships	6
Challenge Cups	5
World Club Champions	3
Website	bradfordbulls.co.uk
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Bradford Bulls is a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It has been one of the major success stories of the Super League era, with the 2003 season being its best where the club successfully won all of the major rugby league honours, (Challenge Cup, Superleague Championship, World Club Championship, and Minor Premier). The team jersey is white with red, black and amber hoops. The club plays its home games at Grattan Stadium (formerly called Odsal Stadium) which is located to the south of the city centre. Bradford's main rivalry at present is with the Leeds Rhinos, although their traditional derby is with Halifax RLFC and they have a lesser rivalry with the Huddersfield Giants.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Bradford FC: 1863-1907 1.2 Bradford Northern: 1907-1963 1.3 1964-1995 2 Super League: 1996-present 2.1 Season Summaries 3 Statistics and records 4 Stadium 5 2009 Squad Stats 5.1 Not Playing 6 2009 Fixtures and Results 7 2010 Transfers In/Out 8 Captains 9 Coaching Register 10 Player Records 11 Former Super League Players 12 Players earning International Caps while at Bradford 13 Players Recieiving Testimonial matches 14 Team of the Century 15 Famous Fans 16 See also 17 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Bradford FC: 1863-1907

The original Bradford Football Club was formed in 1863 and played rugby football, subsequently joining the Rugby Football Union. Park Avenue was established as the home ground in 1880 and the club achieved its first major success by winning the Yorkshire Cup in 1884.

In 1895, along with cross-town neighbours Manningham FC, Bradford was among 22 clubs to secede from the Rugby Football Union after the historic meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield in response to a dispute over "broken time" payments to players who were thus part-time professionals. These 22 clubs formed the Northern Rugby Union, which eventually became the Rugby Football League.

Bradford enjoyed some success in the Northern Union. In 1903-04, the team finished level on points with Salford at the top of the league and then won the resulting play-off 5-0. In 1905-06, Bradford beat Salford 5-0 to win the Challenge Cup and were runners up in the Championship. In 1906-07, Bradford won the Yorkshire Cup 8-5 against Hull Kingston Rovers.

Meanwhile, Manningham had run into financial difficulties and, despite a summer archery contest that generated enough money to ensure their survival, its members were persuaded to swap codes and play association football instead. Manningham was invited to join the Football League in 1903, in an attempt to promote football in a rugby-dominated region, and the newly renamed Bradford City A.F.C. was voted into full membership of the Second Division without having played a game of football, having a complete team or even being able to guarantee a ground.

The creation of Bradford City led to demands for association football at Park Avenue too. The ground had already hosted some football matches including one in the 1880s between Blackburn Rovers and Blackburn Olympic F.C.. In 1895, a Bradford side had beaten a team from Moss Side, Manchester, by 4-1 in front of 3,000 spectators.

With becoming successful at Bradford City, a meeting was called of the Bradford FC members on April 15 1907 to decide the rugby club's future. An initial vote appeared to favour continuing in the Northern Union, but then opinion shifted towards rugby union and the Chairman, Mr Briggs, used his influence to swing the committee behind the proposed move to association football. This act, sometimes referred to as "The Great Betrayal", led to Bradford FC becoming the Bradford Park Avenue association football club.

The minority faction decided to split and form a new Northern Union club, appropriately called Bradford Northern, which applied for and was granted Bradford FC's place in the Northern Union for the 1907-08 season. Bradford Northern's first home ground was the Greenfield Athletic stadium in Dudley Hill, to the south of the city.

[edit] Bradford Northern: 1907-1963

Northern moved to Birch Lane in 1908. Bradford council offered the club a site for a new stadium between Rooley Lane and Mayo Avenue in 1927. However the RFL said the site was too small and the club kept on looking.

Before moving to Odsal, Northern had had two other homes at Greenfield Athletic Ground in Dudley Hill and at Birch Lane which was part of the Bowling Old Lane cricket ground, although at times they also had to hire Valley Parade as the capacity at Birch Lane was insufficient for large matches.

On 20 June 1933 Bradford Northern signed a ten-year lease with Bradford council for a former quarry being used as a waste dump at Odsal Top. It was turned into the biggest stadium outside Wembley. The Bradford Northern team played its first match there on 1 September 1934.

Success came in the 1940s with a number of cup wins: the Yorkshire cup in 1940-1, 1942-3, 1944-5, 1945-6, 1948-9 and 1949-50; and the Challenge cup 1943-4, 1946-7 and 1948-9. In the championship Bradford found it difficult to win either before the war or after despite being runners up in 1942-3 and 1947-8.

On Saturday 3 November 1945, Bradford Northern met Wakefield Trinity in the final of the Yorkshire Cup held at Thrum Hall, Halifax. Wakefield began the match as favourites, they had lost only one of thirteen matches thus far in the season. However, Bradford won 5-2 and lifted the Yorkshire Cup for the fourth time in six seasons.

Bradford defeated Leeds 8-4 to win the Challenge Cup at Wembley in 1947.

The 1947-8 Challenge Cup final was notable as it was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI, who presented the trophy. It was also the first televised rugby league match as it was broadcast to the Midlands. Unfortunately Bradford lost 8-3 to Wigan. The 1949 Challenge Cup final was sold out for first time as 95,050 spectators saw Bradford beat Halifax.

In 1951-2 Bradford were runners up in the league but beat New Zealand at Odsal in the first floodlit football match of any code in the North of England.

In 1953, a crowd of 69,429 watched Bradford play Huddersfield in the Challenge Cup third round. This was Northern’s highest ever attendance. Northern also won the Yorkshire Cup final 7-2 against Hull.

Bradford Northern and Leigh were the first rugby league clubs to stage matches on a Sunday in December 1954, although there was opposition from the Sunday Observance lobby.

Bradford Northern's support declined rapidly in the 1963 season, attracting a record low crowd of 324 against Barrow. Northern went out of business on 10 December 1963 having played just 13 matches; winning 1 and losing 12, scoring 109 points and conceding 284.

[edit] 1964-1995

A meeting on the 14th of April 1964 saw 1,500 people turn out to discuss the formation of a new club, and those present promised a £1000 to help get plans for the new organisation underway. Amongst those who led proceedings were former players Joe Phillips and Trevor Foster.

On 20 July 1964, Bradford Northern (1964) Ltd came into existence. The club’s new side had been built for around £15,000 and had Jack Wilkinson as coach. On 22 August 1964, Hull Kingston Rovers provided the opposition in the reformed club’s first match and 14,500 spectators turned out to show their support, as Odsal hosted its first 10,000 plus gate for a Bradford Northern match since 1957.

The reformed club won its first cup in 1965-66 by beating Hunslet 17-8 in the final of the Yorkshire Cup.

In 1972-3 Bradford lost the Challenge Cup final against Featherstone 33-14. In 1973-4 Bradford won the Second Division Championship and were promoted back to the First Division. During this season Keith Mumby made his début, becoming the Bradford's youngest player at only 16 years of age, scoring 12 goals and a try in a match against Doncaster. He went on to make a record 576 appearances for the club. In 1974-75 Bradford won the Regal Trophy 3-2 against Widnes.

Peter Fox joined Bradford as coach for the first time in 1977-78. Bradford won the Premiership final 17-8 against Widnes and were also Championship runners-up. In 1978-79 Bradford appeared in another Premiership final this time losing 24-2 to Leeds. A year later Bradford won the Championship and Regal Trophy, Peter Fox winning the award for Coach of the Year. In 1980-81 the club made it back-to-back championships.

In 1981-82, Bradford lost the Yorkshire Cup final 10-5 against Castleford and lost again in 1982-83, this time 18-7 against Hull. Keith Mumby won the award for First Division Player of the Year while Brian Noble won the Young Player award.

In 1985 Ellery Hanley left Northern to join Wigan for a then record transfer deal, worth £80,000 and a player exchange involving Steve Donlan and Phil Ford.

In 1987-8 Bradford won the Yorkshire Cup final replay against Castleford 11-2 after drawing 12-12.

Ron Willey coached Bradford Northern for a short stint in 1989/90 and led them to the Premiership final and success in the Yorkshire Cup final when they beat Featherstone 20-14.

David Hobbs became coach at Northern in 1990 until he left for Wakefield Trinity in 1994. Bradford lost the Regal Trophy against Warrington 12-2 in 1990-91.

Peter Fox returned to Bradford for a second spell as coach in 1991, and in 1993-4 the last Championship before Super League, Bradford finished as runners-up behind Wigan on points difference. Fox left the club in 1995.

[edit] Super League: 1996-present

Bradford Bulls became very successful in the Super League, they have won the title in 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2005, the Challenge Cup in 2000 and 2003 and the World Club Challenge in 2002,2004,2006.

[edit] Season Summaries

P=Premiers, R=Runner-Ups, M=Minor Premierships, F=Finals Appearance, W=Wooden Spoons
(Brackets Represent Finals Games)

Competition Playing In	Games Played	Games Won	Games Drawn	Games Lost	Ladder Position	P	R	M	F	W	Coach	Captain	Main Article
Super League 1	22	17	0	5	3/12						Brian Smith	Robbie Paul	Bradford Bulls 1996
Super League 2	22	20	0	2	1/12	X					Matthew Elliott		Bradford Bulls 1997
Super League 3	23	12	0	11	5/12				X				Bradford Bulls 1998
Super League 4	30	25	1	4	1/14		X	X	X				Bradford Bulls 1999
Super League 5	28	20	3	5	3/12				X				Bradford Bulls 2000
Super League 6	28	22	1	5	1/12	X		X	X		Brian Noble		Bradford Bulls 2001
Super League 7	30	24	0	6	3/12		X		X				Bradford Bulls 2002
Super League 8	30	24	0	6	1/12	X		X	X				Bradford Bulls 2003
Super League 9	28	20	1	7	2/12		X		X				Bradford Bulls 2004
Super League 10	28	18	1	9	3/12	X			X			Jamie Peacock	Bradford Bulls 2005
Super League 11	28	16	2	10	4/12				X			Iestyn Harris	Bradford Bulls 2006
											Steve McNamara
Super League 12	27	17	1	9	3/12				X			Paul Deacon	Bradford Bulls 2007
Super League 13	27	14	0	13	5/12				X				Bradford Bulls 2008
Super League 14	27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-			Bradford Bulls 2009
Super League 15	27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-			Bradford Bulls 2010

[edit] Statistics and records

[edit] Stadium

Odsal Stadium is a stadium situated in Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The venue is used for rugby league and has been the home ground of Bradford Bulls since 1934. The official name of the stadium is currently "Grattan Stadium" due to corporate sponsorship. Odsal has also hosted many other sports, including association football, speedway, stock car racing, basketball featuring the Harlem Globetrotters, wrestling, show jumping and kabaddi. The stadium boasts one of the largest attendances of all time for rugby league (102,569) when Halifax played Warrington on the 5th of May, 1954.

[edit] 2009 Squad Stats

• Appearances and Points include all matches As of Rd 18, 12th July 2009

No	Nat	Player	Position	Weight & Height	Age	Previous Club	Contracted Until	Apps	Tries	Goals	DG	Points
1		Michael Platt	Full Back	93 kg, 6ft 2	25	Castleford Tigers	2011	13	2			8
2		Rikki Sheriffe	Right Wing	14st, 6ft	24	Harlequins RL	2010	19	6			24
3		Paul Sykes	Right Centre	92 kg, 5ft 10	27	Harlequins RL	2010	17	7	20/24		68
4		Chris Nero	Left Centre	15st, 6ft 1	28	Huddersfield Giants	2010	16	5			20
5		Semi Tadulala	Left Wing	14st, 6ft	31	Wakefield Wildcats	2009	18	10			36
6		Ben Jeffries	Stand Off	14st, 5ft 9	28	Wakefield Wildcats	2009	19	5			20
7		Paul Deacon (c)	Scrum Half	80 kg, 5ft 9	30	Oldham Roughyeds	2010	16	1	55/62	2	106
8		Sam Burgess	Prop	114 kg, 6ft 4	20	Bradford Bulls	2009	18	2			8
9		Terry Newton	Hooker	98 kg, 5ft 10	30	Wigan Warriors	2009	19	2			8
10		Andy Lynch	Prop	108 kg, 6ft 2	29	Castleford Tigers	2009	16	2			8
11		Steve Menzies	Second Row	98 kg, 6ft 3	35	Manly Sea Eagles	2009	19	11			44
12		Glenn Morrison	Second Row	97 kg, 6ft	32	Parramatta Eels	2009	9	4			16
13		Jamie Langley	Loose Forward	108 kg, 6ft 2	25	Bradford Bulls	2010	15	align=centre5
14		Wayne Godwin	Hooker	13st, 5ft 6	26	Hull FC	2011	4
15		Matt Cook	Second Row	95 kg, 6ft	22	Bradford Bulls	2009	11	1			4
16		Michael Worrincy	Second Row	98 kg, 6ft 1	23	Harlequins RL	2010	17	6			24
17		Nick Scruton	Prop	106 kg, 6ft	24	Leeds Rhinos	2011	18	1			4
19		Craig Kopczak	Prop	98 kg, 6ft 4	22	Bradford Bulls	2009	18	1			4
20		Dave Halley	Right Wing	78 kg, 5ft 9	22	Bradford Bulls	2009	15	4			16
22		Matt James	Prop	100 kg, 6ft 3	21	Bradford Bulls	2010	2
23		Jason Crookes	Right Centre	83 kg, 5ft	18	Bradford Bulls	2011	3
24		Julien Rinaldi	Scrum Half/Hooker	13st, 5ft	29	Sunshine Sea Eagles	2009	6	2
--		Richard Johnson	Left Centre	87 kg 5ft 11	23	Bradford Bulls	2010
25		Steve Crossley	Prop	104 kg, 6ft 2	19	Bradford Bulls	2010
26		David Solomona	Second Row	108 kg, 6ft	31	Wakefield Wildcats	2009	3
27		Kieran Hyde	Full Back	85 kg, 5ft 11	18	Bradford Bulls	2011
28		Elliott Whitehead	Second Row	93 kg, 6ft	19	Bradford Bulls	2010	4
29		Tom Olbison	Centre	96 kg, 6ft 1	18	Bradford Bulls	2010	1
30		James Donaldson	Second Row	87 kg, 5ft 10	17	Bradford Bulls	2010	1
31		Andy Tate	Right Centre	85 kg, 6ft 3	17	Bradford Bulls	2011
32		Duane Straugheir	Right Centre	90 kg, 6ft	19	Bradford Bulls	2009

									Tries	Goals	DG	Points
								-	71	67/77	2	407

[edit] Not Playing

Injured

• 14 Wayne Godwin - Out until 7 June
• 23 Jason Crookes - Out for the season
• 26 David Solomona - Awaiting test results
• 27 Kieran Hyde - Out for 5 weeks

[edit] 2009 Fixtures and Results

2009 Engage Super League

Date	Competition	Rnd	Vrs	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Att	TV	Report
8/2/2009	League	1	Harlequins	A	Stoop	P					Highlights	Report
15/2/2009	League	2	Hull KR	H	Grattan Stadium	D	13-13	Tadulala, Nero	Deacon 3/4	12,141	Boots N All	Report
27/2/2009	League	3	Giants	H	Grattan Stadium	L	12-16	Morrison	Deacon 4/4	10,186	Boots N All	Report
07/03/2009	League	4	Warriors	A	JJB Stadium	L	10-44	Sheriffe,Menzies	Deacon 1/2	12,588	Sky Sports	Report
15/3/2009	League	5	Hull FC	H	Grattan Stadium	L	24-36	Jeffries, Sherriffe,Menzies, Tadulala	Deacon 4/4	11,327	Boots N All	Report
21/3/2009	League	6	Dragons	A	Stade Gilbert Brutus	W	30-24	Sherriffe,Menzies, Tadulala , Newton,Halley	Deacon 3/3, Sykes 2/2	7,620	Boots N All	Report
29/3/2009	League	7	Tigers	A	Jungle	L	26-28	Platt, Tadulala, Lynch, Morrison , Halley	Deacon 2/4,Sykes 1/2	9,185	Boots N All	Report
5/04/2009	Cup	4	Dragons	A	Stade Gilbert Brutus	L	38-40	Sheriffe, Sykes, Nero, Tadulala, Menzies, Cook, Halley	Deacon(5/7)		BBC Sport	Report
10/4/2009	League	8	Rhinos	H	Grattan Stadium	W	10-6	Worrincy , Sheriffe	Sykes 1/4	14.554	Sky Sports	Report
13/4/2009	League	9	Wildcats	A	Belle Vue	L	22-24	Menzies 2, Worrincy, Platt	Sykes 3/4	6,516	Boots N All	Report
19/4/2009	League	10	Wolves	H	Grattan Stadium	L	22-58	Solomona 2, Platt, Jeffries	Sykes 3/4	8,643	Sky Sports	Report
24/4/2009	League	11	Saints	A	GPW Recruitment Stadium	W	34-30	Tadulala 2, Kopczak, Burgess, Worrincy 2	Sykes 5/6	14,000	Sky Sports	Report
2/5/2009	League	12	Wildcats	N	Murrayfield		32-16	Sykes 3, Newton, Menzies, Worrincy	Deacon 4/6		Boots N All	Report
17/5/2009	League	13	Crusaders	H	Grattan Stadium	L	24-30	Lynch, Worrincy, Menzies Sykes	Deacon 4/4	7,602	Boots N All	Report
22/5/2009	League	14	City Reds	A	The Willows	L	10-18	Sykes 2	Deacon 1/2	4,383	Boots N All	Report
7/6/2009	League	15	Wildcats	H	Grattan Stadium	W	36-22	Menzies ,2 Nero 2, Rinaldi	Deacon 8	8,387	Boots N All	Report
14/6/2009	League	16	Wolves	A	Helliwell Jones	W	21-10	Nero,Morrison, Newton	Deacon 4/4, 1 DG	9,606	Boots N All	Report
21/6/2009	League	17	Saints	H	Grattan Stadium	L	18-44	Sheriffe,Morrison, Tadulala	Deacon 3	10,599	Boots N All	Report
26/6/2009	League	18	Rhinos	A	Headingley	L	20-33	Tadulala, Deacon, Menzies	Deacon 4/4	17,824	Highlights	Report
5/7/2009	League	19	Tigers	H	Grattan Stadium	L	38-40	Jeffries (2), Tadulala, Halley, Scruton, Worrincy, Burgess	Deacon 4/6, Sykes 1/1	8,971	Boots N All	Report
12/7/2009	League	20	Hull KR	A	Craven Park						Boots N All	Report
19/7/2009	League	21	Warriors	H	Grattan Stadium						Boots N All	Report
25/7/2009	League	22	Crusaders	A	Brewery Field						Boots N All	Report
2/8/2009	League	23	Harlequins	H	Grattan Stadium						Boots N All	Report
8/8/2009	Cup	Semi Final									BBC Sport	Report
16/8/2009	League	24	Giants	A	Galpharm						Boots N All	Report
23/8/2009	League	25	Dragons	H	Grattan Stadium						Boots N All	Report
29/8/2009	Cup	Final		N	Wembley Stadium						BBC Sport	Report
6/9/2009	League	26	City Reds	H	Grattan Stadium						Boots N All	Report
11/9/2009	League	27	Hull FC	A	KC Stadium						Boots N All	Report
12/09/2009	Playoffs	PO1									Sky Sports	Report
13/09/2009	Playoffs	PO2									Sky Sports	Report
19/09/2009	Playoffs	PO3									Sky Sports	Report
20/09/2009	Playoffs	PO4									Sky Sports	Report
26/09/2009	Playoffs	PO5									Sky Sports	Report
10/10/2009	Playoffs	SLGF			Old Trafford						Sky Sports	Report

[edit] 2010 Transfers In/Out

In

	Name	Signed from	Fee	Date
	Glenn Hall	Manly Sea Eagles		June 2009
	Heath L'Estrange	Manly Sea Eagles		July 2009

Re Signings

	Name	Contract until	Years Signed	Date
	Dave Halley	2011	2 years	June 2009
	Andy Lynch	2012	3 Years	June 2009
	Paul Sykes	2010	1 Year	July 2009

Out

	Name	Fee	Club Signed	Date
	Terry Newton			July 2009

[edit] Captains

From 1996 -

• Robbie Paul 1996 - 2004
• Jamie Peacock 2005
• Iestyn Harris 2006
• Paul Deacon 2007 -

[edit] Coaching Register

From 1930 -

Dai Rees 1936 - 1960 Trevor Foster 1960 - 1961 Doug Greenall 1961 Jimmy Ledgard 1961 - 1962 Harry Beverley 1962 - 1963

John "Jack" Wilkinson 1963 Gus Risman 1964 - 1971 Harry Street 1971 1972 Ian Brooke 1973 - 1975 Roy Francis 1975 - 1977

Peter Fox 1977 - 1985 Barry Seaborne 1985 - 1989 David Hobbs 1989 Ron Willey 1989 - 1990 David Hobbs 1990 - 1993

Peter Fox 1993 - 1995 Brian Smith 1995 - 1996 Matthew Elliott 1996 - 2000 Brian Noble 2001 - 2006 Steve McNamara 2006

[edit] Player Records

All-time Top 5 Bradford Bulls Tryscorers

• John "Jack" McLean - 261
• David Redfearn - 240
• Tommy Winnard - 167
• Eric Batten - 156
• Robbie Paul - 156

All-time Top 5 Bradford Bulls Point Scorers

• Paul Deacon* - 2,306
• Keith Mumby - 1985

All-time Top 5 Bradford Bulls Appearances

• Keith Mumby - 588
• George Carmichael - 473 (#1) [1] [2]* David Redfearn - 470
• Trevor Foster - 433
• Ernest Ward - 391

[edit] Former Super League Players

Paul Anderson Ryan Atkins Michael Banks Marcus Bai Chris Birchall Graeme Bradley Chris Bridge Justin Brooker David Boyle Matt Calland Gary Christie Richard Colley Paul Cook Brandon Costin Kevin Crouthers Jason Donahue Jeremy Donougher Bernard Dwyer Shaun Edwards Abi Ekoku Karl Fairbank Brett Ferres Stuart Fielden Mike Forshaw Daniel Gartner Stanley Gene Lee Gilmour Nathan Graham Jon Hamer

Gareth Handford Neil Harmon Shontayne Hape Ben Harris Carlos Hassan Richard Hawkyard Ian Henderson Tommy Hodgkinson Andy Hodgson Harvey Howard Phil Howlett Paul Johnson Warren Jowett Simon Knox Toa Kohe-Love Davide Longo Paul Loughlin James Lowes Brad Mackay Greame Mackay Nathan McAvoy Brian McDermott Craig McDowell Chris McKenna Steve McNamara Paul Medley Brad Meyers Richard Moore Adrian Morley Scott Naylor

Sonny Nickle Rob Parker Henry Paul Robbie Paul Danny Peacock Jamie Peacock Karl Pratt Leon Pryce Karl Pryce Lee Radford Stuart Reardon Tahi Reihana Shane Rigon Jon Scales Roger Simpson Aaron Smith Andy Smith Hudson Smith Stuart Spruce Gareth Stanley Marcus St Hilaire Logan Swann Glen Tomlinson Lesley Vainikolo Tevita Vaikona Alex Wilkinson Michael Withers Jeff Wittenberg Nick Zisti

[edit] Players earning International Caps while at Bradford

Paul Anderson, for England while at Bradford 2000 Australia (sub), Fiji, Ireland, New Zealand (sub); 2001 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1999 Australia (sub); 2001 France (sub), Australia (sub) x 3; 2002 New Zealand (sub) x 3; 2003 Australia (sub) x 2 David "Dave" Barends, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1979 Eric Batten, for England while at Hunslet 1938 Wales; 1939 France, Wales; 1940 Wales; 1941 Wales; 1943 Wales; while at Bradford: 1944 Wales; 1945 Wales x 2; 1946 France x 2, Wales; 1947 France; 1948 France, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1946 Australia x 2, New Zealand; 1947 New Zealand Stan Brogden, for England while at Bradford 1929 Other Nations; while at Huddersfield 1932 Wales x 2; 1933 Other Nations, Australia; while at Leeds 1935 France, Wales; 1936 Wales x 2, France; 1938 Wales; while at Hull 1938 Wales; 1939 France; 1941 Wales; 1943 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1929-30 Australia; 1932 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 3; 1933 Australia x 2; while at Leeds 1936 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 2; 1937 Australia x 2 Matthew "Matt" Calland, for England while at Bradford 1996 France (sub) Leonard "Len" Casey, for England while at Hull K.R. 1978 France, Wales; 1980 Wales; 1981 France, Wales, for Great Britain while at Hull K.R. 1977 France (sub), New Zealand (sub), Australia; 1978 Australia; while at Bradford 1979 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 3; while at Hull K.R. 1980 New Zealand x 3; 1983 France x 2 Matthew "Matt" Cook, for England while at Bradford 2006 France (sub), Tonga (sub) Gerald Cordle, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1990 Paul Deacon, for England while at Bradford 1999 France x 2; 2000 Russia, Fiji, Ireland, New Zealand; 2001 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 2001 France, Australia; 2002 New Zealand x 3; 2003 Australia x 2, Australia (sub); 2005 Australia, New Zealand x 2 Karl Fairbank, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1993 Stanley "Stan" Fearnley [3], for England while at Bradford 1975 Australia J. Feather, for England while at Bradford 1905 Other Nations Brett Ferres, for England while at Bradford 2006 France, Tonga x 2, Samoa Stuart Fielden, for England while at Bradford 2000 Australia, Russia (sub), Fiji (sub), Ireland, New Zealand, for Great Britain while at Bradford 2001 Australia, Australia (sub) x 2, France (sub); 2002 Australia, New Zealand x 3; 2003 Australia x 3; 2004 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 2; 2005 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 2; while at Wigan 2006 New Zealand x 3, Australia x 2 Tony Fisher, for Wales while at Bradford 1970 England; while at Leeds 1975 France, England, Australia, New, Zealand, England, Australia, New, Zealand; 1977 England, France; 1978 Australia, for Great Britain while at Bradford/Leeds 1970 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 3, Australia x 2; while at Leeds 1971 France x 2; 1978 Australia x 2 (World Cup 1970 2-caps) Michael "Mike" Forshaw, for England while at Bradford 2000 Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1997 ASL x 2 (sub); 1998 New Zealand (sub); 1999 New Zealand (sub); 2001 France (sub), Australia x 3; 2002 New Zealand x 3; 2003 Australia x 2, Australia (sub) Colin Forsyth, for England while at Bradford 1975 France, New Zealand, Wales Deryck Fox, for England while at Bradford 1995 Wales, France, for Great Britain while at Featherstone 1985 France x 2, New Zealand x 3; 1986 France x 2, Australia x 2; 1989 New Zealand (sub); 1990 Papua New Guinea (sub); 1991 Papua New Guinea (sub); 1992 France (sub); while at Bradford 1992 Australia

G. Grainge, for England while at Bradford 1938 France Jeff Grayshon, for England while at Dewsbury 1975 Wales, France, New Zealand, Australia, Australia; 1977 Wales; while at Bradford 1979 Wales, France; 1980 Wales (sub), France; 1981 Wales, for Great Britain, 1979 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 3; 1980 New Zealand x 2; 1981 France x 2; 1982 Australia x 2; while at Leeds 1985 New Zealand x 2 Ellery Hanley, for England while at Bradford 1984 Wales; while at Leeds 1992 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1984 France (sub), France, Australia x 3, New Zealand x 3, Papua New Guinea; 1985 France x 2; while at Wigan 1985 New Zealand x 3; 1986 France, Australia; 1987 France x 2, Papua New Guinea; 1988 France x 2, Papua New Guinea, Australia x 3, New Zealand; 1989 France x 2; 1990 France, Australia x 3; 1991 France x 2; while at Leeds 1992 Australia; 1993 France Iestyn Harris, for Wales while at Warrington while at Leeds while at Bradford ≥1995 ?-caps, for Great Britain while at Warrington while at Leeds while at Bradford 1996…2004 12-caps, for Wales RU while at Cardiff Blues 2001…04 ?-caps Leonard "Len" Higson, for England while at Wakefield 1932 Wales; while at Bradford 1941 Wales David Hobbs, for England while at Featherstone 1984 Wales, for Great Britain while at Featherstone 1984 France x 2, Australia, Australia (sub), New Zealand x 3, Papua New Guinea; while at Oldham 1987 France x 2; while at Bradford 1989 New Zealand, New Zealand (sub) Harvey Howard, for England while at Leeds 1995 Wales; while at Brisbane 2000 Australia, Russia (sub), Fiji (sub), Ireland (sub), New Zealand, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1998 New Zealand (sub) W. Hutchinson, for England while at Bradford 1944 Wales; 1945 Wales Phil Jackson (#10), for England while at Bradford 1975 Wales, France (World Cup 1975 1-cap 10-goals) Richard "Dick" Jasiewicz, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1984 John "Jack" Kitching, for England while at Bradford 1945 Wales; 1946 France, Wales; 1947 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1946 Australia Jamie Langley, for England while at Bradford 2004 Russia, France, Ireland, for Great Britain while at Bradford 2007 Fiji (sub) Andrew "Andy" Lynch, for England while at Castleford 2004 Russia, France, Ireland; while at Bradford 2005 France (sub), New Zealand (sub), for Great Britain while at Bradford 2007 France Arthur Mann, for England while at Bradford 1908 Wales; 1909 Australia x 3, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1908-09 Australia x 2 G. H. Marsden, for England while at Bradford 1905 Other Nations Nathan McAvoy, for England while at Salford 1996 Wales; while at Bradford 1999 France, France (sub) Brian McDermott, for England while at Bradford 2001 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1996 Fiji; 1997 ASL x 3 Steve McNamara, for England while at Hull 1995 Wales (sub), France; while at Bradford 1996 France; 1999 France x 2, for Great Britain while at Hull 1992 France (sub); 1993 France (sub); while at Bradford 1997 ASL x 2 (sub) J. W. Moore, for England while at Bradford 1940 Wales E. P. Mosby, for England while at Bradford 1905 Other Nations Keith Mumby, for England while at Bradford 1979 Wales, France, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1982 Australia; 1983 France; 1984 France x 2, Australia x 3, New Zealand x 3, Papua New Guinea Michael "Mick" Murphy (#8/#10), for Wales while at Bradford circa-1975 ?-caps (World Cup 1975 3-caps)

Scott Naylor, for England while at Bradford 2000 Australia, Fiji, Ireland (sub), New Zealand Paul Newlove, for England while at Featherstone 1992 Wales; while at Bradford 1995 Wales, Australia x 2, Fiji, Wales; St. Helens 1996 France, for Great Britain while at Featherstone 1989 New Zealand (sub), New Zealand x 2; 1991 Papua New Guinea; 1992 Papua New Guinea (sub), Australia x 3, New Zealand (sub); 1993 France; while at Bradford New Zealand x 3; 1994 France, Australia, Australia (sub); St. Helens 1997 ASL x 3; 1998 New Zealand Terry Newton, for England while at Leeds 1999 France x 2; while at Wigan 2001 Wales, for Great Britain while at Leeds 1998 New Zealand; while at Wigan 2002 Australia (sub); 2003 Australia x 3; 2004 Australia x 3, New Zealand; while at Bradford 2006 New Zealand x 2, New Zealand (sub), Australia x 2; 2007 New Zealand Rob Parker, for England while at Bradford 2004 Russia, France, Ireland Jamie Peacock, for England while at Bradford 2000 Russia, Fiji, Ireland (sub), New Zealand (sub); 2001 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 2001 Australia x 2, Australia (sub); 2002 Australia, New Zealand, New Zealand (sub) x 2; 2003 Australia x 3; 2004 Australia x 3, New Zealand; 2005 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 2; while at Leeds 2006 New Zealand x 3, Australia x 2; 2007 New Zealand x 3 Leon Pryce, for England while at Bradford 1999 France; 2000 Australia, Russia; 2001 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 2001 Australia x 3; 2002 New Zealand x 3; 2005 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 2; St. Helens 2006 New Zealand x 3, Australia x 2; 2007 New Zealand x 2 Lee Radford, for England while at Bradford 2001 Wales (sub); 2005 France, New Zealand; while at Hull 2006 France, Tonga x 2, Samoa John "Johnny" Rae, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1965 Alan Rathbone, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1983 Stuart Reardon, for England while at Bradford 2005 France, New Zealand (sub), for Great Britain while at Bradford 2004 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 2 Alan Redfearn, for England while at Bradford 1979 France; 1980 France, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1979 Australia David Redfearn, for England while at Bradford 1975 France, Australia, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1972 New Zealand (sub); 1974 France x 2, Australia, New Zealand x 3 (World Cup 1972 1-cap)

Roger Simpson, for England while at Bradford 1995 France (sub) Thomas "Tommy" Smales, for England while at Huddersfield 1962 France; while Unattached 1975 Papua New Guinea (sub) (Is the only player to ever win an England cap while Unattached), for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1962 France; 1963 France, Australia; 1964 France x 2; while at Bradford 1965 New Zealand x 3 Herbert Smith, for England while at Halifax 1927 Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1926-27 New Zealand x 2 Stuart Spruce, for England while at Widnes 1992 Wales; while at Bradford 2000 Russia (sub), Fiji, for Great Britain while at Widnes 1993 France; while at Bradford 1996 Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Zealand x 3 T. Surman, for England while at Bradford 1906 Other Nations James "Jimmy" Thompson (#11), for England while at Featherstone 1970 France; 1975 Australia, Australia; 1977 Wales; while at Bradford 1978 France (sub), Wales (sub), for Great Britain while at Featherstone 1970 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 2, Australia x 2, France, New Zealand; 1971 France, France (sub); 1974 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 3; 1977 France, New Zealand, Australia x 2; while at Bradford 1978 Australia (World Cup 1970 4-caps) Kenneth "Ken" Traill, for England while at Bradford 1949 France; 1953 Wales, Other Nations; 1955 Other Nations, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1950 New Zealand x 2; 1951 New Zealand; 1952 Australia x 3; 1954 Australia, New Zealand Edward Ward, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1947 Ernest Ward, for England while at Bradford 1941 Wales; 1945 Wales x 2; 1946 France x 2, Wales x 2; 1947 France, Wales; 1948 France x 2; 1949 Wales, France x 2; 1950 Wales x 2, France; 1952 Other Nations2, Wales, for Great Britain while at Bradford 1946 Australia x 3, New Zealand; 1947 New Zealand x 2; 1948 Australia x 3; 1950 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 2; 1951 New Zealand x 3; 1952 Australia x 3 Frank Whitcombe, won caps for Great Britain while at Bradford circa-1946 Thomas "Tom" Winnard, for England while at Bradford 1937 France Harold Young, for England while at Bradford 1928 Wales; while at Huddersfield 1929 Other Nations; 1930 Other Nations; 1931 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1929-30 Australia

[edit] Players Recieiving Testimonial matches

Ronald "Ron" Barritt (Testimonial match 1989) Michael "Mick" Blacker (Testimonial match 1977) Paul Deacon (Testimonial match 2008) Jon Hamer (Testimonial match 1994)

Brian McDermott (Testimonial match 2002) Steve McGowan (Testimonial match 1993) Keith Mumby (Testimonial match 1985)

Brian Noble (Testimonial match 1988) Robbie Paul (Testimonial match 2006) Alan Redfearn (Testimonial match 1983) David Redfearn (Testimonial match 1981)

Dennis Trotter (Testimonial match 1981 Ernest Ward (Testimonial match 1950)

[edit] Team of the Century

As announced in Bradford's T&A Paper on 31 August 2007 :Bradford's Team of the Century

Bradford Bulls Team Of The Century
8 Stuart Fielden 9 James Lowes 10 Joe Vagana 11 Trevor Foster 12 Karl Fairbank 13Ken Traill 7 Paul Deacon 6 Robbie Paul 4Shontayne Hape 3Ernest Ward 5 Lesley Vainikolo 2Jack McLean 1 Keith Mumby

Head Coach

• 00 Brian Noble

Kit man

• 00 Fred Robinson

[edit] Famous Fans

• Duncan Preston
• Ryan Sidebottom
• Gareth Gates

[edit] See also

• Bradford Bulls statistics
• Bradford Bulls Academy
• Former Bradford Bulls Players
• Bradford Bulls Officials
• Bradford Bulls 2007
• Bradford Bulls 1997
• 2000 Challenge Cup
• 2003 Challenge Cup
• 2001 Super League Grand Final
• 2003 Super League Grand Final
• 2005 Super League Grand Final
• 2002 World Club Challenge
• 2004 World Club Challenge
• 2006 World Club Challenge

[edit] External links

• Bradford Bulls Website
• Bradford Bulls in T&A
• Bradford Bulls on Sky Sports
• Bradford on Super League Site
• Red Amber and Black
• BBC Sport-Rugby League
• Bradford Bulls Pro Club Page

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