Bradford's poor start to the engage Super League season continued as Wigan ran out 28-14 winners in dismal conditions at the JJB Stadium.

One of the pre-season favourites to challenge for Leeds' crown, the Bulls have now lost three of their opening four matches, with the Warriors recording their third win from the opening month in a promising start to the campaign for them.

The Bulls had opened up an early 8-0 advantage through a Wayne Godwin try and two goals from Paul Deacon, but Wigan hit back through George Carmont and the boot of Pat Richards, before Goulding edged them in front 12-8 at the halfway mark.

A Richards try extended the home side's lead early in the second half before Chris Feather responded for the Bulls - but a huge blunder from Michael Platt allowed Joel Tomkins to seal the points for the Warriors, before Harrison Hansen put the icing on the cake in front of a crowd of 15,444.

Wigan had been boosted by the inclusion of Stuart Fielden on the bench for his first game since the beginning of October, although Phil Bailey missed out through suspension.

The Bulls were without the injured Terry Newton but were able to name Godwin, another ex-Wigan man, at hooker, with Semi Tadulala also back after injury.

Bradford started well and, after making big ground on their first set, it took an acrobatic take by Liam Colbon from Deacon's kick, with Tadulala lurking, to snuff out the danger.

Moments later, Richards did equally well to deal with another Deacon kick to the other corner, as the Warriors struggled to make yards of their own with the ball.

Deacon opened the scoring in the sixth minute after Sean O'Loughlin was penalised for a high shot in front of his own posts, and the Bulls went further ahead with the first try of the game four minutes later.

Thomas Leuluai was sent to the sin-bin for deliberate offside, and Godwin caught Wigan cold by darting over from a quick tap-penalty.

Deacon's conversion made it 8-0, but Wigan hit back with a try of their own just two minutes later after a mistake by James Evans.

The Bulls winger tried to slip an ill-advised pass out of the tackle on his own line but only found the sidelines, and he paid the ultimate price when Trent Barrett kicked through for Carmont to touch down in the corner.

Richards converted to reduce the gap to two points, and then added a penalty awarded against Glenn Morrison which levelled the scores.

Morrison then became the second player to enter the sin-bin seven minutes before half-time after holding down Richards in the tackle.

With the interval just three minutes away, Gareth Hock made a big burst down the middle and, although the Bulls cover got back to stop the supporting Richard Mathers, Wigan spread the ball right on the next tackle for Goulding to cross.

Wigan extended their lead three minutes into the second period, although Goulding was nearly the villain this time.

He broke down the right but, instead of handing Colbon a walk-in score, he tried to beat Platt himself and was tackled.

Luckily for him, Barrett's inch-perfect kick on the next play was taken in the in-goal area by an airborne Richards, who added the conversion to make it 18-8.

Back came the Bulls, though, and Feather took a beautiful short ball to crash over, Deacon's conversion narrowing the gap to four as the hour mark approached.

However, another error, this time by Platt, allowed Wigan to regain a 10-point advantage.

Leuluai's kick was fumbled by the former Castleford man and Tomkins was on hand to score, with Richards again successful with the boot.

The Bulls knew it was not to be their night with four minutes left when the ball slipped out of Shontayne Hape's grasp with the line gaping, and a last-minute score from Hansen merely rubbed salt into the wounds.