Leeds Rhinos 12–26 Bradford Bulls — Qualifying Semi-Final, 2004 Super League Finals Series

Qualifying Semi-Final, 2004 Super League finals series: Leeds Rhinos 12–26 Bradford Bulls, at Headingley, Leeds on 2 Oct 2004.

Sourcing caveat: An initial extraction of this match's scoring misreported both sides (undercounting Bradford's tries by one and overcounting Leeds' by one); the figures here were corrected via a dedicated verification pass and now reconcile exactly for both teams, with Bradford's double for Hape independently corroborated by Wikipedia's prose summary of the match. Both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers and no suspicious sequential index, so no re-fetch was needed for the numbers themselves. However, a first pass at Bradford's forward positions returned Jamie Peacock as Lock and Lee Radford as Second Row — the reverse of this backlog's established convention for these two players (confirmed Second Row and Lock respectively across all four of Bradford's 2005 finals appearances in 13ba); a targeted re-fetch asking specifically to double-check these two players' printed abbreviations confirmed the position labels had been transposed in the first pass, and the corrected assignment (Peacock Second Row, Radford Lock) is used here. Leeds fielded Kevin Sinfield at Lock and Andrew Dunemann at Halfback for this match — a different halves/lock combination from the one seen a week later in the Elimination Final and Grand Final (where Sinfield moved to Five-Eighth and Danny McGuire took Halfback, with Dunemann dropping out of the 22) — plausible in-season rotation, directly corroborated by this match's own scorer credit of McGuire's try from the Five-Eighth slot rather than Halfback. Coaches: Tony Smith (Leeds — already established by 13ay as covering November 2003 to October 2007, fully spanning 2004) and Brian Noble (Bradford — already established via this file's own Grand Final entry, which quotes him directly, and corroborated by his Rugby League Project coaching-career summary).