Bradford Bulls 30–31 Wigan Warriors — Elimination Play-off, 2007 Super League Finals Series
21 Sep 2007 · Grattan Stadium, Bradford · Attendance: 9,055
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Elimination Play-off, 2007 Super League finals series: Bradford Bulls 30–31 Wigan Warriors, at Grattan Stadium, Bradford on 21 Sep 2007.
Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes beyond Harris' 48th-minute score were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. Both lineups fetched cleanly on the first attempt from Rugby League Project's dedicated match page, with real, varied squad numbers rather than a suspicious sequential position-order index (e.g. Bradford's Sam Burgess at 18 (Lock), Wigan's David Vaealiki at 14 (Centre)) — no re-fetch needed. Wigan's numbering here cross-matched exactly, unchanged, across this club's two other 2007 finals appearances (Elimination Semi-Final v Hull FC, Elimination Final v Leeds) later this round. Coaches confirmed via web search: Steve McNamara (Bradford) and Brian Noble (Wigan, corroborated directly by the Sky Sports source already cited above, which is itself a retrospective interview with Noble about this match).
Scoring timeline
| 48′ | Bradford Bulls — try, Harris |
Tries with a sourced minute, in order scored, with the conversion kicked/missed alongside each one where source data lets us match a kicker to that specific try. Tries whose exact minute isn't recorded in available sources appear in the Scorers table below but not here; goal tallies we can't attribute to one specific try are shown as descriptive text in Scorers rather than guessed into this timeline.
Scorers
| Bradford Bulls | Tries: Solomona (3); Tupou; Harris 48' Goals: Harris (5/6 conversions) |
| Wigan Warriors | Tries: Leuluai; Calderwood (3); Hansen Goals: Richards (5/5 conversions) Drop goals: Richards |
Team sheets
| Bradford Bulls | Wigan Warriors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Michael Platt | Fullback | Pat Richards | 5 |
| 1 | Marcus St Hilaire | Wing | Mark Calderwood | 2 |
| 3 | Ben Harris | Centre | Phil Bailey | 3 |
| 4 | Shontayne Hape | Centre | David Vaealiki | 14 |
| 20 | Tame Tupou | Wing | Liam Colbon | 23 |
| 12 | Glenn Morrison (c) | Five-Eighth | Trent Barrett | 6 |
| 6 | Iestyn Harris | Halfback | Thomas Leuluai | 7 |
| 8 | Joe Vagana | Prop | Stuart Fielden | 8 |
| 9 | Terry Newton | Hooker | Shane Millard | 16 |
| 10 | Andy Lynch | Prop | Iafeta Palea'aesina | 10 |
| 26 | David Solomona | Second Row | Harrison Hansen | 19 |
| 11 | Chris McKenna | Second Row | Bryan Fletcher | 12 |
| 18 | Sam Burgess | Lock | Sean O'Loughlin (c) | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 14 | Chris Feather | Mick Higham | 9 | |
| 15 | Matt Cook | Paul Prescott | 18 | |
| 2 | Nathan McAvoy | Gareth Hock | 11 | |
| 16 | Ian Henderson | Darrell Goulding | 20 | |
| Steve McNamara | Coach | Brian Noble | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Steve Ganson |
Match report
Wigan Warriors beat Bradford Bulls 31-30 at the Grattan Stadium (Odsal) on 21 September 2007 in a Super League Elimination Playoff, completing what was at the time the biggest comeback in Super League history. Bradford led 22-6 at half-time and 30-6 with around 25 minutes left, appearing to have the tie won, before Wigan — driven by Trent Barrett's creativity — scored 25 unanswered points in the final quarter. Mark Calderwood's interception try (one of his three on the night) levelled it 30-30, before Pat Richards' late field goal won it.