BULLS duo Danny Williams and Harry Siejka are set to cop two-match bans following last Sunday’s explosive encounter at Leigh which saw six yellow cards dished out.

A mass brawl erupted midway through the first half and Williams has been charged by the RFL with the Grade C offence of repeated punching.

Williams and Leigh’s Gregg McNally were sinbinned following the clash which also saw Centurions pair Adam Higson and Tommy Goulden get stuck in.

Higson has been charged with Grade C punching and Goulden has been charged with Grade C running in and punching.

Siejka was sinbinned twice during the game, which Leigh won 36-24, and has been charged with reckless striking after catching Leigh’s Sam Barlow for his first yellow card in the 27th minute.

Grade C offences carry a ban of two to three matches but Williams and Siejka are expected to take early-guilty pleas before next Tuesday, which would see them banned for two games.

They are both available for Sunday’s visit of Whitehaven but a two-game ban would see them miss next week’s trip to Featherstone and the visit of Hunslet seven days later.

Bulls head coach Jimmy Lowes will pick from virtually the same squad for this weekend’s game but Danny Addy is missing with the hamstring strain he picked up against Leigh.

Lowes said: “Danny is out for a little while now, which is a shame as he was a big part of my plans for this year.

“It will be a similar sort of squad this week, with the exception of Danny.”

Bulls managing director Steve Ferres, meanwhile, has drawn a line under the controversy surrounding last Sunday’s game which has sparked an RFL investigation into numerous off-field incidents.

Ferres said: “I think it looked like two Super League sides in waiting.

“We never underestimated Leigh and Paul Rowley has done a fantastic job there with a team who play really good football.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if they beat anyone they come up against – I think they can be that good a side.

“I also think we’ve got a lot of improvement in ourselves and I’m looking forward with interest now to how the season pans out.

“I think we went into the match a game too short of match practice after the Huddersfield friendly got cancelled.

“We had a few players out there on Sunday who had not played a full 80 minutes for some time.

“That probably damaged us a bit but, having said that, it was a great advert for Championship rugby.

“It was the third biggest crowd of the weekend, which made for a cracking atmosphere at a fantastic little stadium.”

Ferres, meanwhile, said there were no immediate plans to offer Charlie Martin a contract following his recent trial spell.

But he added: “We would like to get Charlie within the system and have made no secret of that.

“But the mechanics to make it happen aren’t there at this moment in time.

“We’ve got a lot of back-rowers and we’ve also got a situation where we have to look at our spend and how we use that spend.

“But if there is a way that we can get Charlie into the squad in some way, shape or form then we will look at that. The situation is ongoing and can change.”