The Bulls travel to Crusaders on Sunday keen to shake off the bogey team tag.

Since becoming the first team to lose to the Welshmen in Super League last year, Wayne Godwin feels they have not done themselves justice in clashes with the now Wrexham-based side.

Despite victory in Bridgend in their second meeting of 2009, displays have not met Godwin’s expected standards in either of their two games so far this season.

Bradford edged a tight Odsal encounter 20-16 but were ‘nilled’ for the first time in four years while losing 19-0 at Magic Weekend.

Consequently, the 28-year-old rake believes the Bulls have a point to prove to themselves at the Racecourse Ground, especially on the back of last week’s 52-6 defeat to Huddersfield.

“We just want to go out there and enjoy our football again,” he said.

“We know it will be tough because it’s 1-1 between us this season and they definitely did a number on us last time. They out-enthused us, ran harder and tackled harder.

“How we’ve performed against them the last two times isn’t good enough. Even when we won, it wasn’t a very high standard of performance.

“So we’re definitely looking forward to putting things right. We feel we have a point to prove to ourselves as much as anyone.”

A recent spate of injuries have forced Godwin into an unfamiliar role for the Bulls – one he may be forced to repeat at Wrexham.

With the unavailability of Matt Orford and Brett Kearney forcing starting hooker Heath L’Estrange into the halves, Godwin has been handed the No 9 spot.

He said: “It’s tough because at the moment we’ve got none of our regular scrum halves available and I feel for Heath.

“He’s a hooker at the end of the day, so when you get put into an unfamiliar role it’s hard to adapt.

“But that’s the kind of bloke he is, he’ll do anything for the good of the team.

“I think Heath’s done a good job, though, and we all have to do our bit.

“It’s a tough period for us but the injuries are just one of those things. We can’t go out looking for excuses because we know our performance last week just wasn’t good enough.

“We’ve not lost confidence in our own ability and we’ve not become a bad team overnight, so we can’t let one bad result affect us too much.

“We’ve regrouped and we want to respond straight away.”

The starting hooker’s berth is one Godwin has coveted since his arrival at Odsal in 2008 and one he impressed in at the end of last season when Terry Newton was sidelined through injury.

Although necessity has pushed him into the role, Godwin is happy to accept it and believes combinations between the Bulls’ new pivots will soon come together.

He said: “When you’re a hooker you get used to your halves – the direction, the way they play and the talk you get from them.

“It’s like anything, you get used to combinations, who plays where, so we’re missing Ox and BK a lot at the moment. They’re two of our best ball-players.

“But I enjoy the starting job and I’m happy to continue with it for as long as I need to.”