Bulls coach Brian Noble heaped praise on reserve half-back Paul Deacon for his part in Friday night's impressive whitewashing of third-placed Hull and then asked for more of the same next weekend.

Deacon was handed a rare starting chance and responded with the opening try in the 40-0 success at Valley Parade.

"We don't have the Paul brothers against Castleford next week because of international duty and it was important we got Deacs some game time," explained Noble. "He deserves more time on the field and we are trying to give him it.

"He played really well for an hour before his engine got a little rusty. But he will have to do the full 80 minutes next Sunday and I was highly delighted with what he came up with."

The Pauls were also in excellent form ahead of today's flight Down Under for the Kiwis clash with Australia in Wellington on Friday.

Stand-off Henry Paul rattled up 20 points with two tries and six goals while brother Robbie ran in two tries, despite spending an hour on the bench, to bring up a century for the club.

"It was a huge team effort," said Noble. "When we put our foot on the gas, we're pretty unstoppable. We made quite a few errors but the way we play that will happen."