Bradford Bulls head coach Kurt Haggerty has said his injury-hit side can not feel sorry for themselves as they look to avoid finishing bottom of Super League.<\/p>\n
The Bulls have lost nine of their past 10 matches and are 14th and last with four games to play.<\/p>\n
Haggerty, who revealed vice-captain Ryan Sutton will miss the trip to Leigh with a thumb injury, said he has 19 players available.<\/p>\n
“When you play teams like Wigan, Leigh, Toulouse if you are feeling sorry for yourself at any point they will stamp all over you,” he told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to prepare to win and be ready physically and mentally every week because if we don’t we have shown what can happen.<\/p>\n
He added: “We don’t want the tag of finishing bottom so that will drive us for the rest of the season.”<\/p>\n
Haggerty also said he did not expect any additions before the Super League deadline for new signings on Friday.<\/p>\n
Bradford were promoted to Super League for the 2026 season after a decade away when the league was expanded back to 14 teams.<\/p>\n
Like Huddersfield and Hull FC they have six wins from 17 games but they are bottom on points difference.<\/p>\n
After this week’s trip to Leigh they go to Toulouse before rounding out the campaign with a home game against Castleford and an away game at York Knights.<\/p>\n
To add to the loss of Sutton for Friday, Haggerty added full-back Luke Hooley is “50\/50” after he hurt his knee in Saturday’s defeat by Wigan Warriors, as is Joe Mellor, while Phoenix Steinwede is out after he failed a head injury assessment (HIA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls head coach Kurt Haggerty has said his injury-hit side can not feel sorry for themselves as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}