\n The hometown hero, who had grown up watching the club on the Odsal terraces, was leaving for Knowsley Road after seven years at Bradford.\n<\/p>\n
\n But on this weekend 21 years ago, Pryce signed off in style.\n<\/p>\n
\n He featured in a Super League Grand Final on his 18th birthday, then made his England debut against France just two weeks later.\n<\/p>\n
\n Someone who could play across the back line, he was integral to Bradford\u2019s three Super League triumphs between 2001 and 2005.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bulls were not far off winning five in a row, losing the 2002 final to Saints via Sean Long\u2019s last-gasp drop goal.\n<\/p>\n
\n But while that heartbreak lingers more, 2004 was a personal tragedy for Pryce, who was forced to sit out the Old Trafford defeat against Leeds with a dislocated shoulder.\n<\/p>\n
\n The two sides locked horns again in the Grand Final one year later, and that October 17 farewell is one Pryce remembers well.\n<\/p>\n
\n A sublime piece of skill allowed him to score the opening try, as he scythed through the helpless Leeds defence.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bulls won the game 15-6, and as man-of-the-match Pryce told the T&A’s Steve Deane afterwards: \u201cIt was my last game, so I had to do everything I could.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n But the end was nigh for this great Bradford side, with the likes of Rob Parker, Jamie Peacock and Pryce all moving on for 2006.\n<\/p>\n
\n Pryce won the Grand Final with Saints that year, while Peacock became part of a Rhinos dynasty.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sadly, Bradford had peaked, and they have never scaled those heights since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hometown hero, who had grown up watching the club on the Odsal terraces, was leaving for Knowsley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}