THE Bulls are trying to further bolster their squad before the big kick-off against Whitehaven.

Mark Dunning has brought in a dozen new faces in his rebuild for the new Championship campaign - which starts in nine days' time.

But they are thought to be closing in another prop after former Keighley Cougar Dalton Desmond-Walker returned to Australia only months after signing at Odsal.

Dunning said: “We’re still in the market. I don’t think recruitment ever ends, it’s an ongoing process.

“Even once the season starts off if we get to the end of our budget, there’s always an opportunity with recruitment or retention.

“There’s always work to be done but again we’ll go about that quietly.

“We are in the market for certain types of players but we’ll keep that to ourselves until the time we’ve got somebody’s signature on a piece of paper.

“We’ve got irons in the fire of bringing people in and one of those might be hot and ready to come out.

"I’ll only bring someone in who I think makes us better."

Bodene Thompson is set to make his Bulls bow against former club Leeds on Sunday. But Dunning will make a late decision on new skipper Michael Lawrence.

Brad England, who would have missed the Huddersfield game with a rib injury, was being assessed at last night's training session.

Dunning said: "He trained on Tuesday and was a little bit sore afterwards.

"If we need to wrap him in cotton-wool then we will do. It's a cartilage injury rather than a fracture or break from the late tackle against Dewsbury.

"We'll see how 'Beefy' is. He's a tough kid and it's one of them that's he going to have to play with some pain at some point."