2004 Bradford Bulls season

This article details the Bradford Bulls rugby league club's 2004 season.

World Champions - 2004

Position	Pld	Won	Drew	Lost	Points For	Points Against	Points Differential	Points
2nd of (of 12)	28	20	1	7	918	555	353	41

Bradford Bulls regained the World Club Challenge in 2004 by beating the NRL champions Penrith Panthers 22–4 at the McAlpine Stadium in Huddersfield. They also beat Leeds Rhinos in the play-offs to reach the Grand Final, only to meet their arch-rivals two weeks later at Old Trafford in front of a record grand final crowd of 67,000. This time Bradford were beaten by Leeds 16–8. 2004 was also a superb year for the ‘The Volcano’ Lesley Vainikolo as he smashed the Super League try scoring record with a total of 37 tries from 26 appearances. This achievement started in the first round of the regular Super League season as he crossed the try line on five separate occasions against Wigan Warriors to equal the record for the total number of tries in a Super League game.

1 Fixtures
2 Squad
3 Table
- 3.1 Premiership Table
4 References

Fixtures

Date	Round	Opponent	Result	Bulls.	Opp.	Venue	Crowd
13/02/04	WCC	Penrith Panthers	Won	22	4	Galpharm Stadium
20/02/04	1	Wigan Warriors	Won	34	6	Grattan Stadium
29/02/04	CCR4	St Helens		10	30	Grattan Stadium
07/03/04	2	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	Won	40	6
21/03/04		Huddersfield Giants	Won	20	6
02/04/04		Salford City Reds	Won	25	18	Grattan Stadium
08/04/04		Leeds Rhinos		18	26	Headingley
12/04/04		St Helens	Won	54	8	Grattan Stadium
23/04/04		Hull FC		18	26	Grattan Stadium
27/04/04		Warrington Wolves	Drew	22	22	Warrington
03/05/04		London Broncos	Won	24	12
09/05/04		Castleford Tigers	Won	44	18	Grattan Stadium
23/05/04		Widnes Vikings	Won	30	20
29/05/04		St Helens		30	35
05/06/04		Leeds Rhinos		12	26	Grattan Stadium
13/06/04		Salford	Won	35	28
20/06/04		Huddersfield Giants	Won	40	12	Grattan Stadium
27/06/04		Widnes Vikings	Won	38	30	Grattan Stadium
04/07/04		Castleford Tigers	Won	60	12
11/07/04		Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	Won	36	26	Grattan Stadium
16/07/04		Wigan Warriors		16	32
25/07/04		London Broncos	Won	44	16	Grattan Stadium
01/08/04		Hull FC		14	25	Grattan Stadium
08/08/04		Warrington Wolves	Won	36	22	Grattan Stadium
13/08/04		Wigan Warriors	Won	38	12	Grattan Stadium
22/08/04		Leeds Rhinos		40	12
30/08/04	25	Hull FC		Won	26	12	KC Stadium
05/09/04	26	London Broncos	Won	60	18	Grattan Stadium
12/09/04	27	Warrington Wolves	Won	28	27
17/09/04	28	St Helens	Won	64	24	Grattan Stadium
02/10/04	SLSF	Leeds Rhinos	Won	26	12
16/10/04	SLGF	Leeds Rhinos		8	16	Old Trafford

Squad

2004 Player Statistics(Super League Only)

No	Player	Pld	Tries	Goals	D Goal	YC	RC	Pts
1	Robbie Paul	24	5	0	0	1	0	22
2	Tevita Vaikona	6	5	0	0	1	0	20
3	Leon Pryce	27	7	0	0	3		28
4	Shontayne Hape	24	21	0	0	0	0	84
5	Lesley Vainikolo	24	36	0	0	0	0	144
6	Michael Withers	19	7	7	2		0	44
7	Paul Deacon	26	7	120	2	0	0	270
8	Joe Vagana	25	1	0	0	0	0	4
10	Paul Anderson	21	1	0	0	0	0	4
11	Lee Radford	26	1	0	0	0	0	4
12	Jamie Peacock	28	4	0	0	0	0	16
13	Logan Swann	23	6	0	0	0	0	24
14	Toa Kohe-Love	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Karl Pratt	13	5	0	0	0	1	20
16	Paul Johnson	21	8	0	0	1	0	32
17	Stuart Reardon	28	15	0	0	1	0	60
18	Iestyn Harris	11	6	14	0	0	0	30
19	Jamie Langley	27	8	0	0	0	0	32
20	Matt Cook	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Karl Pryce	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Vinny Myler	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Aaron Smith	10	3	0	0	0	0	12
25	Brett Ferres	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	Chris Bridge	13	4	6	0	0	0	28
27	Rob Parker	28	4	0	0	0	0	20
28	Nicky Saxton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	Stuart Fielden	28	3	0	0	3	0	12
30	Richard Moore	9	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Richard Colley	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Andy Smith	9	2	0	0	0	0	8
		Totals	160	137	4	7	1	918

Table

Premiership Table

Final Premiership table for the 2004 season.

Team	PLD	W	L	D	F	A	PTS
Leeds	28	24	2	2	1037	443	50
Bradford	28	20	7	1	918	565	41
Hull	28	19	7	2	843	478	40
Wigan	28	17	7	4	736	558	38
St Helens	28	17	10	1	821	662	35
Wakefield	28	15	13	0	788	662	30
Huddersfield	28	12	16	0	518	757	24
Warrington	28	10	17	1	700	715	21
Salford	28	8	20	0	507	828	16
London	28	7	20	1	561	968	15
Widnes	28	7	21	0	466	850	14
Castleford	28	6	22	0	515	924	12

References

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2004 Bradford Bulls season

Contents

Fixtures

Squad

Table

Premiership Table

References