MARK Hilton feels that tackling the beefy Bulls after being squeezed out of the Powergen Challenge Cup by Super League's number one club should hold no fear for Warrington Wolves.

And this week he posed the question: "What are Bradford going to do against us more than what Leeds did?"

The prop forward added: "On Saturday we went to Leeds, who are the world champions, and lost by four points. Like Paul Cullen said, if we had been smarter in one or two areas we'd have took that game."

Hilton, who is nicknamed Beast, continued: "It will be tough against Bradford, but there are no easy games as the season has shown so far. We've just got to battle it out in each game.

"I don't think Bradford's form has been as good as in the past, and they've lost a few games this year.

"Regardless of who we are playing, we need to start getting some points now and get clear of the bottom half of the table.

"I don't want to get in a dogfight worrying about relegation. We want to be thinking about getting in the top six."

Beast, who is now in his 12th season with Wolves and yet to pick up any sort of winner's medal, has Great Britain Academy, England and Lancashire Origin experience under his belt.

And while he would not have chosen to celebrate his 30th birthday by losing out to Leeds in the cup, he is experienced and professional enough to not allow himself to feel despondent about the exit when there is such a fight in store on Sunday.

He also does not want the team's confidence, which was built up from the record victory over Widnes on March 29, to melt on the back of the defeat at Headingley.

He said: "We didn't help ourselves at Leeds with the amount of errors we made and penalties we conceded, although Leeds did the same.

"It was just a matter of who was going to break first, and it was us.

"We just couldn't pull the deficit back completely late on.

"But we have to take some positives from that performance and we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves.

"That was a far better performance than in a handful of games that we've played in so far this year.

"And to turn round in a week - from the Salford debacle to that - we've got to maintain the confidence we've built up and kick on rather than beat ourselves up, which is what we were doing at half time and at full time at Headingley."