A few home truths provided the motivation to get the Bulls moving forward again.
After opening the campaign with two straight defeats, the Bradford pack held crisis talks in a bid to arrest the slide.
All their faults were laid out bare and Nick Scruton believes that brutal honesty was the spur for a dominant display in beating Castleford 41-22 last Friday.
“A lot of our work goes unnoticed but we don’t want the plaudits,” said the 25-year-old prop.
“We had a forwards meeting before the Cas game and said we really needed to do a job and step up to the plate.
“If we don’t do our job, other people can’t play. We needed to step up and I felt we did that on Friday.
“We all know we need to do it and it’s a tough job being in the pack but we need to keep it up.”
Despite the difficult start to the season, the Bulls’ belief had remained unshaken.
But Scruton admits the victory against Cas was much needed in attempting to provide concrete evidence of the positive groundwork laid in pre-season.
He said: “We never lost confidence that we had that performance in us.
“We worked hard in pre-season, so we knew if we really hit our straps, we could get a result like that. It might have been a shock to a few people outside the club but it wasn’t a shock to anyone here.
“We knew we always had that in us and it was good to go and prove a few people wrong.
“We’ve always had confidence and it’s alright having that confidence but you’ve got to go out and do it. We didn’t just get the result, we played well too, which was good.”
The Bulls will be aiming to record back-to-back triumphs at Salford tomorrow, where they are seeking their first win in four visits.
Although the City Reds have lost all three of their games so far, Scruton expects a tough test, having gained the inside track on them from his old Leeds Rhinos team-mates.
Salford ran the Rhinos close at Headingley last week, despite losing 22-10.
Scruton said: “I spoke to some of the Leeds lads and they said they really muscled up so we’re expecting that side to turn up, especially on their own patch.
“It’s a hostile crowd and they really get on top of you. It’s one of those old grounds where you have to run out through a cage, it’s like going back to the old school.
“A big start’s important to keep the crowd quiet.”
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