St Helens 16–11 Bradford Bulls — Qualifying Final, 2000 Super League Finals Series

Qualifying Final, 2000 Super League finals series: St Helens 16–11 Bradford Bulls, at Knowsley Road, St Helens on 22 Sep 2000.

Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. Lineups sourced this round (round 42 of the lineups backlog) from Rugby League Project's own per-match page (rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/7137), found via a fresh browse of the season summary — the season-summary page itself uses the plain `super-league-2000` slug rather than a roman-numeral form, consistent with 13bc's 2003 and 13be's 2001 findings of the same non-roman-numeral pattern. Both starting thirteens fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers (St Helens' Paul Wellens at 17, Bradford's Stuart Spruce at 28) rather than a suspicious sequential index. St Helens' bench needed a targeted re-fetch: the first pass surfaced only 3 of 4 names (Hall, Tuilagi, Stankevitch); the re-fetch confirmed a genuine 4th bench player, Dwayne West — the same Dwayne West who finished off the "Wide to West" try described in this match's context — but with no squad number printed anywhere on the source page, confirmed via a further targeted check, so his number is recorded as `"UNCONFIRMED"` rather than guessed. Bradford's bench fetched complete (4 of 4) on the first pass. Both clubs' full lineups cross-matched cleanly against their other 2000 finals appearances later this round (St Helens' core thirteen recurs number-for-number in the Qualifying Semi-Final eight days later; Bradford's recurs, with expected week-to-week bench rotation, in the Elimination Semi-Final the following week). Coaches confirmed via web search: Ian Millward (St Helens — reused from this backlog's already-established March 2000-May 2005 tenure) and Matthew Elliott (Bradford Bulls — confirmed via Wikipedia's 2000 Bradford Bulls season article, which names him head coach for the season with no in-season change noted; Brian Noble, named for Bradford throughout 13bc/13bd's later seasons, only took over in 2001).