Mick Potter will not stand for bad habits.

Frustrated by the Bulls’ lack of progress, Potter has warned his team to shed their damaging traits or pay the ultimate price.

Play-off hopes were des-troyed by defeat to Hull KR last week and several players could see their Bradford careers follow suit unless performances improve fast.

Nobody’s future is secure heading into tonight’s Super League clash with Wigan.

“The performance against Hull KR was not the standard we set ourselves,” said Potter. “If it’s a result of bad habits that they can’t change, they’ll finish up somewhere else. It’s as simple as that.

“We work with the guys to change them and try to break some small habits that might be bad. It’s our job to coach them and get them better.

“They showed signs they were improving but then they fall back in the same old habits again. It’s not good enough.

“We fix up one thing but then have to revisit things from other weeks that we fixed up. It’s like we have no retention of things we learned. We fall back into some bad habits, yet at times we’ve shown we can play some good football and come up with some really good plays.

“It’s frustrating. As a coach you always strive for perfection and if you’re not perfect there’s something to get better at.

“We’re a long way from being perfect so we’ve got so much to work on.”

Even if the season is effectively over, Potter still expects his team to be fired up for the trip to the reigning champions.

The Bulls produced one of their most memorable performances of the campaign against Wigan when they narrowly missed out in a 26-22 defeat, despite playing much of the game with 12 men due to Gareth Raynor’s sending off.

Those standards are being used as a benchmark for the DW Stadium match-up.

“The motivation is we’ve seen what we can do,” said Potter.

“The players know how to play and they’ve shown that against Wigan the last time we played them.

“For quite a bit of the match we played with 12 men and equipped ourselves very well.

“We’ve had a fantastic performance only recently against Huddersfield so that all doesn’t instantly evaporate.

“There’s no greater challenge than Wigan. They’ll be tough and they’ve been the most consistent team all season.

““They strangle you out of the match, they’re efficient at what they do, they have a very good squad and they’ve barely had any injuries.

“That consistency of performers out there has been good for them, so they’ve had the same personnel virtually the whole season.”

Young pair Danny Addy and Adam O’Brien will once more be handed the responsibility of leading the charge from hooker.

In the absence of experienced duo Matt Diskin and Heath L’Estrange - both sidelined by season-ending injuries - they will be given the responsibility of guiding play and providing go-forward.

And, despite the final result against Hull KR, Potter praised the contribution of both players.

He said: “I thought Adam did a fantastic job. They tested him and came back to him in just about every tackle but he accounted for them and equipped himself well.

“He’s only small but he gets underneath those big guys and I thought he did a great job for us.

“Danny Addy tried his hardest and it’s a tough thing when you’ve got Matt Diskin and Heath L’Estrange out for the season.

“They’re doing well for us and they’re the least of our problems.”