Speaking after the Bulls thumping 72-6 Carnegie Challenge Cup fourth round victory over Doncaster, Cummings said that the playing staff could only control what happens on the field.

And control they did, running in 13 unanswered tries against the Championship One side, including hat-tricks from Shaun Ainscough and Elliott Whitehead.

"It's the one part of our lives that we can control," said Cummings. "We can't control the way the club is or what will happen in the next month or even if we are going to get paid or not.

"But we can control the way we train and play, and it (the adversity) has really brought us together - this is a great place to be at the moment."

The Bulls were stunned when Russ Spiers charged over for the visitors after barely a minute but Cummings believes that probably kick-started their afternoon's work.

Powerless

"It was a wake-up call for us," he said. "We made an error dropping the ball from the kick-off and were just soft there.

"We toughened up a little after that so it probably helped us more than it helped them. We knew they would come hard at the start but we were poor and not happy with the try.

"It kicked us into gear, our ears pricked up a bit and off we went."

Defeated coach Tony Miller was quick to concede that his team were largely powerless to stop the rampant Bulls.

He said: "They were too big and too strong and we knew coming into the game that it would be a massive test to try and handle the physicality.

"We couldn't handle them out of the ruck - they were too big and powerful and got on a roll.

"I felt Bradford played exceptionally well and have some potential international players coming through - like Bateman and (Tom) Burgess.

"In a couple of years time I think they could be monsters in the game."