Dewsbury Rams 0 Bradford Bulls 50: McNamara happy to avoid upset as Bradford beat neighbours Dewsbury

Bradford Bulls cruised into the fifth round of the Carnegie Challenge Cup with victory over Championship neighbours Dewsbury Rams.

The Bulls led 38-0 at half time but Dewsbury deserved huge credit for restricting Bradford to just two further tries after the break. Bulls star scrum-half Matt Orford produced a superb first-half display and was simply too hot for the Rams to handle.

Bulls coach Steve McNamara said: "It was a thoroughly professional performance. We knew it could have been tricky, we all looked at Saturday's results and some of the points scored by some of the so called 'lesser teams' and we knew we had to play well in this game.

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"If you're going to come to a tricky place and put a marker down at the start there that's the way to do it."

Bradford took a fourth-minute lead when Elliot Whitehead shrugged off a tackle to score following Orford's short pass and Nick Scruton then drove over the line with Orford tagging on the goal.

Impressive prop Glen Hall strode through a gap for the Bulls third try and Orford's conversion put the visitors 16-0 up after 16 minutes.

Brett Kearney scored the pick of Bradford's nine tries when he collected Orford's pass and raced 90 yards to score between the posts and give Orford a simple goal. Hall scored his second try and Kearney then had the strength to hold off three Rams tacklers to touch down and two further Orford conversions stretched Bradford's lead to 32-0.

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Wayne Godwin latched on to Orford's grubber kick scored in first-half injury time and Orford added the conversion before he was withdrawn from the action. Without Orford Bradford looked a much different side and lacked ideas to unlock the improved Rams defence.

In the second half, even when the home side were reduced to 12 men following the sin-binning of Lee Lingard, substitute Heath Lestrange barged over for a 49th-minute try which Danny Addy converted but the Bulls had to wait until the 75th minute to reach their half century when Addy crossed for his first try for the club and he also tagged on the goal to seal a comfortable win.

Dewsbury coach Warren Jowitt said: "Bradford are playing well at this moment in time, they're playing well in Super League.

"The second half we contained them to 12 points. There were some stern words at half time."

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Dewsbury Rams: Haynes, Powell, Turner, Bostock, Fall, P Walker, Brambani, Stenchion, Emmett, Hirst, Lockwood, Robinson, Hayes. Substitutes: J Walker, Barber, Blake, Lingard.

Bradford Bulls: Halley, Sheriffe, Platt, Menzies, Crookes, Kearney, Orford, Scruton, Godwin, Hall, Worrincy, Whitehead, Langley. Substitutes: Olbison, Addy, Lestrange, Kopczak.

Referee: P Brooke (RFL).