Bradford Bulls 24–18 Wigan Warriors — Qualifying Semi-Final, 2001 Super League Finals Series

Qualifying Semi-Final, 2001 Super League finals series: Bradford Bulls 24–18 Wigan Warriors, at Valley Parade, Bradford on 30 Sep 2001.

Sourcing caveat: Referee and full try/goal-kicker detail for this match could not be confirmed from reliable sources within this research pass — the only scorer detail found came from an unreliable AI-generated site (its figures happened to reconcile mathematically, but the source could not be independently corroborated via Rugby League Project or a contemporary match report, so it is not published here). Reported as an open gap rather than an unverified guess. Lineups sourced this round from Rugby League Project's per-match page (rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/7728). Both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers on the first pass (e.g. Bradford's Michael Withers at 5 (Fullback), Robbie Hunter-Paul at 1 (Halfback); Wigan's Harvey Howard at 20 (Prop), Andy Farrell at 13 (Lock)), with no sequential-index artifact encountered. Wigan's bench prints only 3 of 4 names on this page (David Hodgson, Neil Cowie, Denis Betts) — confirmed via a targeted re-fetch as a genuine source-side gap (Stephen Wild is explicitly noted on the page's own team-changes list as 'Out', not simply omitted, and no replacement 4th bench name is given), the third such gap encountered this round. Bradford's full 13-man lineup and 4-man bench here cross-matched exactly, number-for-number, against Bradford's own Grand Final lineup two weeks later — this round's strongest single cross-match anchor, and direct confirmation that the fabricated sequential 1-13/14-17 numbering previously carried for this same fixture in `super_league_grand_finals.py` (flagged unverified since 13al) was indeed wrong; see the fix applied below. Coaches confirmed via web search: Brian Noble (Bradford Bulls — reused from this backlog's already-established tenure, and already named in this file's own Grand Final context) and Stuart Raper (Wigan Warriors — reused from this round's Qualifying Final finding).