Jarrod Sammut is hoping to be back to boost the Bulls in Friday’s crunch home clash with Hull FC.

The skilful stand-off has been out with a dead leg and then a quadriceps injury since the 28-18 loss away to Hull KR at the beginning of June.

Bradford have subsequently continued a losing run which has seen them slide out of the play-off places and four points adrift of the eighth-placed Black and Whites.

Yet Sammut said: “I should really be out for another few weeks but I’m really trying to push myself for the Hull game.

“I don’t think there’s anything more frustrating than sitting on the sidelines.

“You start to think what you could’ve done if you were out there and could you have helped in any way? It makes you tear your hair out.

“You go to training every day and see the boys busting their guts.

“They haven’t been getting the wins which we would have liked but they haven’t been leaving anything on the field.

“You feel for them because they’re so close but yet so far at the moment and that’s been the story of our season.

“My injury started out as a dead leg but then two weeks later I went for an MRI scan and it turned out that I had a tear in the muscle fibre.

“That wasn’t improving and then the other week I found that when I had another scan I had a fresh new tear in my quad.

“It’s just about biding my time at the minute and making sure that when I do get back out there I don’t then miss out on the next few weeks.

“I don’t want to get back and then all of a sudden my quad goes again and I miss the end of the season.”

After playing the Challenge Cup holders and then the league leaders in the last two rounds, three of the Bulls’ next four fixtures are against fellow play-off rivals, with four out of the last six games at home.

And Sammut believes the Bulls are capable of taking maximum points from all their remaining matches.

He added: “The majority of our games remaining are against those teams that are in and around us. We ideally need to win all those games.

“Every game now until the end of the season is a must-win and, with the skill we’ve got, we are capable of doing that.

“It’s just making sure that we complete our sets and stay disciplined. While the effort has been there in the past few games, we still lack that discipline at certain times when we’re fatiguing.

“That’s where Wigan got to us. They stuck to their structures and we just got a little bit tired and lazy.”