AFTER last night's awful 53-10 defeat to lowly Newcastle, Mark Dunning admitted he would "need to really examine who actually wants to be a Bradford Bull".

Dunning's first game as Bulls' permanent head coach was a disaster, and he was not afraid to call out his players after their shambolic performance.

After the game he fumed: "I've said to them if there's anybody that doesn't want to be at this club, come and tell me.

"Myself and (new club consultant) Brian Noble will sit down again and we need to get staff in place, there's lots to do.

"We need to put a staffing structure in place, and then we need to really examine who actually wants to be a Bradford Bull.

"Who actually wants to put their body on the line out here when it gets tough? And who wants to represent those people that have travelled all the way from the city of Bradford to Newcastle on a Friday evening?

"Most of them have probably worked all day, or took time off to come here. Who wants to represent those people?

"I didn't see many out there on the pitch that looked like they did."

Asked how Bulls can possibly bounce back in a vital home game against London Broncos next Saturday, Dunning said: "It's a massive game and there'll be some honest, detailed reviews and some hard conversations to be had.

"There's going to have to be some changes, because that just wasn't an acceptable 80 minute performance."

Bulls were already 12-0 down after seven minutes, and asked if that set the tone, Dunning conceded: "We didn't get off the bus.

"They came out firing and we knew they would. We got rolled in the middle and their half-backs controlled the game off the back of that perfectly."

Bradford came back and found themselves only 14-10 down just before the break, and were threatening to go in front.

Dunning said: "At 14-10, I was sat there thinking we'd worked our way back into the game and that we could put a poor start to bed.

"But it was an attitude-based thing in the second half there, they fell in a hole, and they couldn't get out of it."

It was only a few weeks ago that Bulls comfortably disposed of Newcastle 36-20 at Odsal, but Dunning said: "I'm not surprised, because rugby league's an honest game, and there were too many dishonest performances there."

Ebon Scurr missed out on the squad, but he wasn't injured, and Dunning conceded: "I rotated the middles this week, and I'll put my hands up to that, I probably got that one wrong.

"Ebon wasn't injured, it was a rotation thing to get people game time in and equal some numbers and minutes up.

"It's not just Ebon, there are hopefully going to be a lot of players available next week that weren't this week.

"And there's not many in the changing room tonight that can come and knock on my door on Tuesday or Thursday next week and say they don't deserve to be left out."