GEOFF Toovey has urged Bulls fans to stay on board during the club's bumpy ride.

The schedule for the Bottom Eights is announced today to map out the final seven games of a demanding campaign.

With the Bulls now virtually doomed to bottom spot, it has been tough watching for the Odsal faithful.

Yet Toovey is hoping the supporters will continue to stay loyal until the club can come out the other side.

He said: "I haven't changed from day one. We're here to do our best.

"The club have been put in a very difficult position – but I know the owner's here for the long term and he's trying to put things in place that see the club in the competition for many years to come, rather than going broke every several seasons.

"The people at the top have got the right idea. They are passionate about Bradford and the fans. They are here for the journey, so get on board.

"If we were all champions all the time, then it wouldn't be much of a competition.

"But if we have to start at the bottom again, fight and scrap our way back into contention and into shape to become a good team and good club, then hopefully fans will enjoy that ride."

Toovey admits the Bulls have lacked any consistency through the constant chopping and changing of personnel, a situation forced upon them since they began the season with a 12-point penalty.

They have shown glimpses of potential, particularly in the Summer Bash when they ran Championship title winners Hull KR so close.

But they have lost 13 out of 14 games and Sunday's tame defeat to Swinton at Odsal left the Bulls marooned 11 points adrift.

Toovey said: "We really get up for those bigger games, those ones when we're underdogs and we're expected to get walloped. Hull KR is a typical example and we played some really nice football.

"Then we come up against teams that aren't so fancied and we get beaten, whether it be close or by a smallish margin.

"It's frustrating for me and the players but that goes back to confidence – that's all it is.

"We can play football when our minds are on the task but it seems to be too erratic. We're just too inconsistent."