Centenary Season-2007
In 2007, Bradford Northern/Bulls are celebrating the centenary of the club, it being 100 years since the formation of Bradford Northern. Their Carnegie Challenge Cup campaign began with a home tie against National League side Castleford Tigers in the 4th Round. After a tense match the Bulls ran out 24–16 winners. Bradford now faced a trip to Belle Vue to face fellow Super League club Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the 5th Round. On 30 April 2007 Steve McNamara was appointed Great Britain assistant coach to Tony Smith
May 2007 On 6 May 2007, Bradford Bulls were involved in a controversial situation. During the Millennium Magic weekend, two decisions from referee Steve Ganson which gave the game in the dying seconds to the Leeds Rhinos who won 38–42. After the Match Steve Ganson admitted having made mistakes, which lead to a call from Bradford Bulls Chairman Peter Hood for the points to be awarded to Bradford Bulls. In May 2007 one of the greatest wingers to play for the Bulls Lesley Vainikolo joined Gloucester RFC, Bulls signed 24-year-old Tame Tupou from 2006 NRL champions Brisbane Broncos as Les's replacement.
June & July The Bulls faced a tough schedule in June and July, they beat Hull F.C. 34–8 in round 17, then went onto beat Leeds Rhinos 38–14 which was Lesley Vainikolos last game with the Bulls, then in round 19 they played Wigan Warriors at JJB score was 25–18 to Wigan and then the Bulls went to beat St Helens 10–4 in round 20 at Grattan Stadium. These games went along way to proving whether they have the things to become champions at the end of the season. 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 Bulls reached the semi of Challenge cup in July 2007 but were defeated by St Helens.
August
To celebrate there Centenary Season T & A Bradford's local paper are commissioning a team of the century (see below for details). Bradford Bulls will play Leeds Rhinos in an all star match of touch rugby, Deryk Fox, Karl Fairbank, James Lowes etc. will turn out for the Bulls while the likes of Gary Schofield, Lee Crookes and Dave Heron etc. will turn out for the Rhinos, the game will be played before Round 25 game between Bradford Bulls and Leeds Rhinos
There was a team of the Century team announced in August 2007.
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