New Bulls signing Tame Tupou is here and ready for action.

The Kiwi winger reported for duty for the first time yesterday having finally flown into Manchester Airport on Sunday.

It is more than a month since Tupou actually signed for Bradford from Brisbane Broncos but red tape delayed his arrival.

However, his work permit issues are now resolved and the powerful New Zealand international has made himself available for a quickfire debut.

Tupou has been in limbo for four weeks since being handed a release by the NRL champions.

He had not featured for their first-grade side all season but may make a high-profile start for his new employers in Sunday's live televised Carnegie Challenge Cup quarter-final against Huddersfield Giants.

"It's good to have finally got the green light now and get over here," Tupou told the Telegraph & Argus.

"I just really want to get a couple of days' training under my belt, hit that really hard and get back into things.

"I'll hopefully have a chat with the coach in the next couple of days and if I do get to play it'd be a great occasion.

"We know all about the Challenge Cup back in Australia and New Zealand, especially when it gets to this quarters and semis stage.

"There's some big names in there and it's knockout football.

"I saw the Super League game with Bradford at Huddersfield a couple of weeks ago and it'd be great to play against them at the weekend."

The muscular 24-year-old was assessed by the club's conditioning and medical staff yesterday at their training base at Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge.

Tupou attended the school for three months as a teenage exchange student and admitted: "It's familiar territory looking at those fields! I remember playing over here. They were good times and it's nice to be back."

Tupou was Brisbane's joint-top try-scorer last season but fell out of favour with boss Wayne Bennett and has signed a four-year deal here.

Boss Steve McNamara has a big call to make for Sunday's match. Nathan McAvoy (hamstring) and Michael Platt (knee) could be fit again, while Dave Halley and Marcus St Hilaire both performed admirably in Perpignan, so he may have a wealth of wing options already available to him.

McNamara must decide whether to throw the new recruit into such an important match on the back of only a handful of training sessions - and no first-grade action since last year.