Three in a row for Bulls

Bradford breezed past Hull KR on their way to a 40-4 victory on Sunday, the Bulls therefore recording a third successive Super League win.

Brett Kearney and Rikki Sheriffe both touched down twice for the Bulls, with Andy Lynch and Elliott Whitehead also scoring while Matt Orford also found his aim with the boot.

Playing their first match since Steve McNamara was named England coach, Bradford controlled the match from the word go and had two early opportunities to cross.

The first came and went when, with the home side looking to exploit a numerical advantage on the right, Michael Platt's pass to Steve Menzies went to ground.

Then, after Brett Kearney came up with a steal deep in the Robins' half, Orford found himself in space after his dummy had left the opposing defence flat-footed.

However, having raced through the gap, the Australian halfback was penalised for crossing.

Marauding

The Bulls only had to wait nine minutes for their first try though and it came as a result of a marauding run from Lynch.

The big prop burst through two tackles and, although it looked as though he would be stopped, he had just enough momentum to cross and touch down.

Orford kicked the extras and did the same just four minutes later after a lovely piece of play from Whitehead.

The 20-year-old second-row made use of his acceleration to burst through the Hull KR defence before dummying a pass towards Chris Nero on the left that outwitted Shaun Briscoe.

Bradford thought they had scored their third a few minutes later but Kearney's touchdown came from what was adjudged to be a forward pass.

The home crowd were left incensed soon afterwards when a high tackle from Scott Murrell on Kearney went unpunished.

After a heavy downpour - which made handling difficult - came and went, the Bulls dominated possession and yet they were also having difficulty adding more points.

Defences were on top just before the interval and with Orford also failing with a drop-goal attempt, the Robins started the second half looking to up their tempo.

Instead of narrowing the gap, however, they fell a further two points behind after Rhys Lovegrove was found guilty of stripping the ball and Orford kicked another two points.

He kicked another penalty in the 57th minute, this time punishing the Hull KR defence after they had infringed near their own line.

Quick double

The win was secured when Sheriffe touched down a quick double, the first coming after he fended off Briscoe to cross in the right-hand corner.

The second came in the same place just five minutes later after a superb pass from Menzies afforded Sheriffe the simplest of scores.

Kearney came through from dummy half to score the Bulls' fifth try on 71 minutes, with Orford, who finished with figures of eight goals from eight attempts, converting all three scores.

Kearney got his second at the death after Jake Webster had been shown a straight red card for a high shot on Menzies, with Ben Cockayne also going over late on for a consolation try.