Bradford Bulls 86, Kazan Arrows 14 - The idea of the Damart Russian Tour is twofold - to give the visitors more experience and to see at what level Kazan Arrows and Lokomotiv Moscow might enter the Challenge Cup next season.

Lokomotiv gave Dewsbury a fright by losing only 32-28 at the Rams Stadium last night, but after this simultaneous mauling at Odsal, Kazan's arrow is still pointing towards the 2002-03 Challenge Cup - just to a different round that's all.

On the evidence of 80 minutes against the Bulls' senior academy team, going in with the Northern Ford Premiership sides would be a round too late.

"I would put them in against the National Conference League teams," reckoned Bulls' senior academy coach Karl Harrison.

"Don't forget that was our under-19 squad, we have scored a lot of points, and the NFP clubs would beat us because theirs is a higher standard of game.

"We had a very young team out and they had some big guys, but after that we dominated in the speed and skill departments.

"When we got the ball wide they couldn't handle our pace.

"Kazan kept going for 80 minutes, and I commend them for that, but they lacked technical knowledge that professional coaching can bring."

Kazan captain Robert Ilyasov - named their man of the match - said: "It was very good experience for us. We haven't played at this level before and we lost our way a bit."

The Bulls man of the match was stand-off Chris Bridge, who has the priceless ability to find space where there seems to be none. However, he may have broken an arm.

Harrison said: "Chris' arm was very tender after the match and we'll get an X-ray today. Hopefully it is just bruising, but it didn't look good last night.

"Also prop Vinny Myler has several stitches in a head wound, loose forward Jamie Langley went over on his ankle, and centre Alex Wilkinson tweaked a hamstring."

Tries for the Bulls in front of an excellent crowd of 2,023 came from right winger Nicky Johnson (3), Langley (2), centre Michael Lyons, left winger Andy Smith, Bridge, hooker Aaron Smith, second row Rob Parker and substitutes Stuart Reardon, Gareth Stanley and Nicky Saxton.

Full back Paul Sykes scored two tries and kicked seven goals, and lively replacement Ben Western landed six goals.

Kazan's three tries were on a par with the best the Bulls could offer.

Two came from pint-sized right winger Rinat Shamsutdinov and the other from left winger Oleg Sokolov. Full back Mikhail Mitrofanov added a goal. Ilyasov apart, second row Aidar Akhmyetshin also impressed.