Lee Gilmour is happy to shed his Mr Versatile tag and concentrate on making a centre spot his own with the Bulls.

The Dewsbury-product made his name with Wigan as a pacy back-rower and looked set for a big future after being named Super League's young-player-of-the year in 1998.

But a couple of quiet seasons followed, prompting a move to Odsal last winter in an effort to try and kick-start his career.

Injuries and the depth of the Bulls three-quarter line res-ources meant he had to wait for his chance.

But since being handed a starting slot in his favoured centre position against Warrington at the start of the month he has never looked back.

He said: "This a big squad with a lot of quality players and, after being in and out of the side, earlier in the season it's been nice to get a run of games together.

"I've played the last three or four now and I'm looking to just to build on that and keep on improving game by game."

Gilmour's increasing confidence was underlined at Headingley last week when he did an excellent marking job on Leeds' Kiwi powerhouse Tonie Carroll.

"If you want to make a name for yourself you have got to play well against the best players and Tonie Carroll is one of the best in the world," explains 23-year-old Gilmour.

"I knew I had a big job to do to mark him out of the game and I was pretty happy with the way it went.

"You have just got to try and cut his stride down. If you let him wind up on you then he is going to blow you over so I just tried to get in his face and stop him before he got going.

"I have enjoyed playing centre. At Wigan I went through the ranks as a centre and ended up playing back-row but when I came to Bradford Brian (Noble) told me he saw things the other way round.

"He considered me to be a centre who can play back-row if needed. I am happy with that and it has been a matter of learning the position again having not played there for three seasons.

"After a few games under my belt I'm beginning to think I'm getting there again.

"When I first came I was playing for a while on the wing and a bit at centre, one week on the left and the next on the right. I never got a settled partnership. But now I've got Leon on my outside and Robbie on my inside.

"Mike Forshaw and Danny Gartner play on the left too and we are all communicating and linking well. It is all about learning each others play."