JIMMY Lowes felt the Bulls enjoyed a great work-out in yesterday’s opening friendly at Leeds as he declared: "I enjoyed watching that."

Bradford led 12-10 at half-time in Carl Ablett’s testimonial thanks to tries from new boy Kris Welham and hooker Adam O’Brien.

But the Rhinos roared back to claim a 26-12 win following four unanswered second-half tries from Ryan Hall, Mitch Achurch, Rob Burrow and Beau Falloon.

Yet head coach Lowes said: “I enjoyed the game and I thought it was a great work-out.

“We will take quite a lot out of the second half as well as the first half.

“It was our first game and there was some good and bad, as there always is, but there is plenty to work on.

“We produced things that we had worked on and other things we have still to get out of our system as well.

“But overall I really enjoyed the game because it was a good hit-out for us and I’m not going to read too much into it.

“Nor am I going to be overly concerned with some of the stuff that let us down because that’s always going to be the case in your first game.”

Lowes handed debuts to a handful of new signings in Welham, Oscar Thomas, Ben Kavanagh, Kurt Haggerty and Jonathan Walker.

Rhys Jacks played the second half off the bench and showed some promising signs as he bids to earn a contract.

Lowes added: “I thought they all did alright and I’m not going to single anyone out. I don’t feel I need to do that in this game or next Sunday’s game against Castleford.

“We have to chose 17 players to select from for the Featherstone game.”

The Bulls defended their line doggedly at times, especially during the first half, but Leeds’ class told in the second period.

Lowes, who used 11 replacements off the bench and reported no injury worries, added: “If you give Leeds half a sniff, they will take it.

“That’s why they are a top side and what happened in the second half showed how resilient they are.

“They’ve got some good players who wait and wait and then bang, they get you.

“We’ve got to understand that we can’t have those switch-offs against anybody, never mind against a top side like Leeds.

“I thought we had a ten or 12-minute period in that second half where we started feeling sorry for ourselves. We were a little bit tired and dropped into bad habits.

“We need to get out of that and it’s probably the most important thing for me. But they are a quiet bunch and I’ve never known a rugby team to be so quiet in training.”