Jamie Langley has warned his Bulls team-mates there are no short-cuts to success.

The all-action back-rower has become worried about the fundamental errors that have characterised a five-game league losing streak.

More of the same would take Bradford to new lows. Defeat against Hull FC at Odsal tomorrow (3pm) would set an unwanted new club record for consecutive Super League losses and potentially result in a slide out of the play-off places.

But vice-captain Langley believes the current maladies can easily be remedied and has called for a renewed focus on discipline and patience.

He said: “This run has been frustrating because some of these games, we should be winning. We had a couple of blow-outs when we just didn’t turn up but some of these games we shouldn’t have lost.

“It’s just those silly errors. It’s a different matter if they’re forced errors or if you give a penalty away that’s a dead-set penalty but it’s these little niggly ones, for holding down too long or being offside, which are just short-cuts really.

“Then there’s people taking their eye off the ball at the last minute, making little knock-ons and things like that, not putting a good kick in on last plays.

“They’re all little things that are just schoolboy errors which seem to be coming back to haunt us. The teams that make the least of these errors go on to win games, so we’ve got to start being a lot tougher on ourselves.”

Langley highlights last week’s loss at Castleford as an example of the Bulls’ impatience.

Heading into the final quarter 18-12 up, they suffered a serious attack of the jitters, conceding three tries to ultimately fall 28-22.

Recent games have been littered with similar examples but Langley insists the problems can be solved by more composure in possession.

He said: “We have to be more patient. You can’t win a game in the first ten or first 15 minutes.

“If you go back five or ten years, you could probably blow teams off the park in that opening spell but nowadays it’s hard to do that.

“If you look at the big scores that have been racked up on teams this year, it’s often come after half-time when teams have started to break others down.

“If we don’t get the success straight away, you just have to keep doing what you’re doing.

“That’s where we’ve been letting ourselves down. We’ll build some pressure, string a few sets together but then make a silly error and it bursts the bubble.”

Defeat at Cas ruined Langley’s return from a two-month injury lay-off, although he did come through without reaggravating the quad muscle problem.

The current injuries to fellow forwards Nick Scruton, Danny Sculthorpe and James Donaldson meant the vice-skipper was asked to play four different positions throughout the 80 minutes but he is happy to continue as the pack’s Jack of all trades.

Langley said: “I enjoyed being back out there and it was good to get 80 minutes under my belt. There were no problems with the leg so hopefully I’ve put it behind me now.

“I think last weekend I played right-side back row, left-side back row, loose forward and prop.

“You’ve got other lads who are running around doing the same thing as well but we just have to do it. It can’t be helped when you’ve got a few injuries. It’s not a problem at all.”