Chairman Chris Caisley has demanded the Bulls fight fire with fire as they bid to get their Grand Final dream back on track.

The Challenge Cup holders have stumbled with two defeats and a draw in their last six games to dent their hopes of a second minor premiership.

And after being on the receiving end of some rough house tactics in derby clashes with Leeds and Halifax Caisley says it is time for the players to stand up and be counted.

"We have rightly established a reputation in the last few years of being a physically dominant side and I am not happy to see that being tarnished," he said.

"As the Wigan coach Frank Endacott said recently 'you are either the steamroller or the pavement in this game' and we have to impose ourselves more.

"We have set the standard and we have to accept that teams are going to stand up to us. It's up to us now to respond and I am sure that Matthew Elliott and his players are only too well aware of what is needed.

"Wigan, Leeds and now Halifax have shown the way forward for other sides and I expect all the sides we face now until the end of the season to follow suit."

Caisley said the 20-20 draw with 12-man Halifax was a culmination of some poor performances in recent weeks.

"I would say we have not played well since that 12-12 draw at Wigan which is some time ago," he said. "We need to recapture that sort of form.

"But I must stress that we have not become a bad side overnight and that we still have time to put it right.

"We have started to look a little jaded and some of the players have been playing with injuries.

"But we have to put all that behind us and put a decent 80-minute performance together."

lWigan coach Frank Endacott has been named Tetley's Bitter Super League coach of the month for July.

St Helens stand-off Tommy Martyn, who has enjoyed a new lease of life since the arrival of coach Ian Millward, is the player of the month after helping his side to the top of the table.

Martyn becomes the third Saints player this season to scoop the prize, following in the footsteps of Sean Long and Kevin Iro.

Super League spokesman Andrew Whitelam said: "The judges felt that Tommy Martyn had produced some outstanding rugby league attacking skills throughout the month.