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)
“I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.”
—Gabriel Péri, French Communist leader. Letter, July 1942, written shortly before his execution by the Germans. Quoted in New York Times (April 11, 1943)
“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)