Bulls too strong for Rams

Bradford piled on an unanswered half-century against Dewsbury to move into the last 16 of the Challenge Cup.

The Rams have yet to win a league game this season and never looked likely to cause a huge upset against a Bulls side who were fitter, stronger and the more skilful throughout.

Seven first-half tries and five goals from the boot of Matt Orford gave the Bulls a huge interval lead.

Heath L'Estrange and debutant Danny Addy added further converted scores after the break to complete the rout and earn the Bulls a home tie against Leigh in the fifth round.

With just four minutes on the clock the Bulls, who entered the game on a four-game unbeaten run, forged ahead. Orford opted to pump the ball downfield and a simple right to left late move in the following set resulted in Elliot Whitehead crashing over, but only after fending off the first defender and taking a couple over the line with him.

Bradford were eating up the ground almost at will and a second score arrived in the eighth minute.

Strength

It was Nick Scruton who showed great strength in barging his way over and grounding the ball.

A third came in 15th minute after James Haynes was harshly penalised for stealing the ball from Michael Platt.

Brett Kearney ran a simple line and found Glenn Hall on a charging run for the line with a clever angled pass.

Kearney himself then got in on the act in the 23rd minute and it followed perhaps the best period for the Rams.

Andy Bostock had just spilled as he went low and hard for the line at the Bulls' end of the field, but from the resulting scrum Kearney raced the length of the field following a clever offload from Steve Menzies.

Hall helped himself to his second try of the afternoon five minutes later following some good work from two Bulls players. Craig Kopczak made the yardage and then Wayne Godwin provided the telling pass.

Kearney grabbed his second in the 35th minute when he cleverly used second-rower Mike Worrincy as a decoy and Godwin then touched down after Orford had chipped through with the outside of his right boot.

Former Manly half-back Orford, who was dictating everything, kicked the conversion to finish with figures of five from seven attempts.

Defence

The Bulls had to wait until the ninth second-half minute for the next try as some good Rams defence managed to keep Bradford at bay.

L'Estrange, who had only been on the pitch four minutes, dummied his way over and Addy, who took over the kicking duties from Orford slotted the conversion.

In the closing stages the much-improved home side played some really entertaining football with the ball in hand and gave a much better account of themselves.

However, Lee Lingard was sent to the sin bin as the tackles continued to fly in, while Addy added another converted score seven minutes from time.