Our first pre-season friendly of 2023 is upon us as we travel to our former landlords Dewsbury Rams this Sunday for a 2pm kick off. It will be good to see some of the new recruits get their first hit out in the red, amber and black shirt. Particularly looking forward to seeing how Holmes, Lawrence and Thompson get on.

We were spoilt with Vaikona and Vainikolo that's for sure. So much is expected from wings nowadays. You need to be athletic enough to dive in at the corner and to be safe under a high cross-kick so being quite tall is useful. You need to be big enough to help your forwards out with the ball in hand on kick returns and/or elusive enough to make ground and get a quick PTB.

Getting someone that ticks all those boxes at our level is nigh on impossible. We could do with a bit more depth though.

James Clare would fit most of that criteria.

He would be a good addition.

It was good to see Lawford play well yesterday I thought he stood up well in defence after being tested out early on and with ball in hand he looked good - the try he scored was impressive. There were few mistakes but for the first pre season game I thought it was good stuff. It'll be useful to have genuine competition for places at halfback next year.

Decent performance against a team likely to be in the top 2 of L1.

Some pleasing signs, Walkers try, nice to see good back up play. Been a massive issue for me has our support play (or lack of) last couple of years. Nice try from Lawford too which will only give the kid more confidence. Plenty to work on with much tougher tests to come.