WARRINGTON'S talented scrum half Lee Briers has a huge admirer in the Bradford Bulls camp.

And they are likely to find themselves marking each other on Sunday in the quarter-finals of the Silk Cut Challenge Cup.

The Bulls' skipper Robbie Paul has been impressed with Briers' rise in the game since he joined Warrington from St. Helens in 1997.

Paul says: "His time has come. He is one of Super League's best kept secrets.

"Lee has a great mind for the game and his vision is superb."

Briers has made a great start to the new season with his new half back partner Scott Wilson and Paul, who now has his brother Henry with him at Bradford, knows how important it is to have a good liaison between the scrum half and stand off.

He says: "There have been a number of stand offs over a short period at Warrington but it is important for Lee to have someone outside him who knows what he is doing.

"The half back partnership is the most important one on the field. If you don't have that partnership right then it is only a one-man show."

Paul watched the Wolves on television as they defeated Halifax in the Challenge Cup fifth round a fortnight ago and says his side will not be taking the Wolves lightly as they bid for a third Wembley appearance in four years.

The 23-year-old New Zealand international says: "I get the feeling there is a lot of team spirit at Warrington and this is an immeasurable strength.

"The players and the fans see this year as a new beginning and are very passsionate about taking the club forward.

"And with my very good friend Peter Deakin in charge of the club they have a big plus to help make it happen.

"He completed the turn around over here and did the same with Saracens. He takes in what a club has and takes advantage of it in a big way.

"Every year a club rises from nowhere and it looks obvious that this year Warrington, and possibly Salford too, are the teams to have come through.

"But Warrington have to come to us, we're at home and we want to take any chance there is of reaching through to Wembley.

"After reaching the finals of 1996 and 1997 and losing them both I have a very haunting feeling about this competition but I want to put the record straight."

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