Two-try skipper Iestyn Harris led from the front to get the Bulls firing again and admitted: "I knew we'd win this one."

The champions came under attack for a lame draw against Harlequins last Saturday but responded in style with a 34-4

walloping of Salford City Reds last night.

Harris, 29, revealed he sensed the squad was destined to deliver even before they kicked off at Odsal.

"We were desperate to get back on the horse after falling off last week," said the Great Britain ace. "We

refocused in training and I knew coming to the game yesterday we were switched on.

"Salford were never going to win that. We pretty much smashed them.

"We needed to get physical and we did. We defended really well for 80 minutes and they struggled to get out of their own half.

"We missed four or five chances and it could have been 40 or 50 points at half-time. It was pretty pleasing."

The stand off was inspirational as the Bulls powered into a 24-4

interval advantage, scoring twice and having a hand in tries from Brad Meyers and Stuart Fielden, while pinning Salford back time after time with some fine kicking.

"The kicking game was really important," admitted the man of the match.

"It was a heavy pitch and with our big bunch of forwards we needed to get on the front foot so they could save some energy.

"Me and Paul Deacon and Stanley Gene at dummy half put in some excellent kicks while a lot of theirs went straight to our full back."

The win means Bradford - who saw Lesley Vainikolo make a successful return from injury - remain unbeaten and rise to second behind St Helens, 13-4 winners over Leeds.

Meanwhile, Harris, in his 300th career match, took his try-tally to three in three Super League encounters so far.

Crossing the whitewash is going to be a more important aspect of his game in 2006.

"It's important for half-backs to score tries," he said. "If you look at all the good teams, their half-backs tend to be scoring in the high teens.

"Me and Deacs need to be doing that this year and if we do we won't be far away from that top two or three. There's some good teams this year and we need to make sure we're clinical.

"We'll have to look at some of those opportunities that we missed out on."