July
Bradford played Wigan Warriors at JJB, and a match-winning performance from two-try Australian centre Phil Bailey inspired Wigan Warriors to produce arguably their best performance of the season to claim a 25 points to 18 victory over the Bradford Bulls at the JJB Stadium. Bradford Bulls warmed up for their Carnegie Challenge Cup semi-final against St Helens with a hard-fought 10-4 victory at Odsal on Friday night. A try from Marcus St Hilaire and 3 goals from Paul Deacon secured the win in slippery conditions. Bradford then lost to Salford 14-10, where the Bulls produced a stuttering and ill disciplined performance ahead Challenge Cup Semi Final with St Helens. In this month Ben Harris signed a one year deal to play for North Queensland Cowboys from 2008. The Bulls were docked two Super League competition points when an independent panel found that the Bradford Bulls club had breached the Salary Cap by four per cent. The points deduction takes immediate effect and applies to the 2007 season and therefore the current engage Super League competition table. The Bradford Bulls bowed out of the 2007 Carniegie Challenge Cup Competition as holders St Helens took a 14 points to 35 victory to secure a fifth Challenge Cup final appearance in eight years. Saints hooker Keiron Cunningham produced a man-of-the-match performance on his 400th appearance for his club to help them to a clinical six-try triumph and confirm their return to Wembeley Stadium. Beaten by Bradford in an Odsal mudbath a fortnight earlier, Saints revelled in the summer sunshine at the Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield and produced some scintillating rugby league to which the Bulls had no answer. in this game Leon Pryce was banned for 3 games squessing Sam Bugess's Ball's.
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Famous quotes containing the word july:
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Children are as destined biologically to break away as we are, emotionally, to hold on and protect. But thinking independently comes of acting independently. It begins with a two-year-old doggedly pulling on flannel pajamas during a July heat wave and with parents accepting that the impulse is a good one. When we let go of these small tasks without anger or sorrow but with pleasure and pride we give each act of independence our blessing.”
—Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)
“People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream. Except on July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)