April
Bradford Faced Leeds Rhinos in the first of the Easter fixtures for long periods Bradford Dominated play and looked set to defeat the Rhinos thanks to tries from Marcus St Hilaire and Lesley Vainikolo, but a Scott Donald try two minutes from secured a win for the Rhinos the score was 14-18 to Leeds. Next up was Wakefield Trinity Wildcats on Easter Monday it was Bradford Bulls second-rower David Solomona first game back at belle Vue since his controversial move to odsal helped condemn his old side to a second engage Super League defeat in four days, Bradford ran out winners 36-22. Next game was against engage Super League new boys Hull KR. Andy Lynch and Iestyn Harris both crossed twice as the Bulls cruised to an emphatic 52-22 victory. Bradford second game against a Hull in a week was against Hull F.C,Bradford produced a powerful second half performance to come away from the KC Stadium with the 2 engage Super League points in their back pocket, celebrating Steve McNamara’s year in charge with a return to the top of the table the score was 22 - 32. The Bulls posted six tries in a tremendous team performance which was all the more credible after they trailed three times during the tie. The last game of April was againat Warrington Wolves, Super League's leading tryscorer Michael Platt kept up his scoring streak as Bradford Bulls beat Warrington Wolves 36-24 at the Grattan Stadium. The full-back scored two of his side's six tries to notch his 11th and 12th tries of the season at a ratio of one try per game. The result kept Bradford level with Leeds Rhinos at the top of Super League, but leaves Wolves struggling at the bottom of the table after their seventh defeat of the season. Despite the loss of skipper Paul Deacon for the entire second half, Bradford pulled away from the visitors in a final quarter in which they scored three decisive tries. o the 30th April 2007 Steve McNamara was appointed Great Britain assistant coach to Tony Smith
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Famous quotes containing the word april:
“Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-apparelled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“An April Sunday brings the snow
Making the blossom on the plum trees green,
Not white. An hour or two, and it will go.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I, Alphonso, live and learn,
Seeing Nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind;
Lemons run to leaves and rind;
Meagre crop of figs and limes;
Shorter days and harder times.
Flowering April cools and dies
In the insufficient skies.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)