Henry Tones and Paul Rudd are still injured which gives Garside his chance. The second team skipper has been improving week on week since his return to rugby from boxing - he gets his chance ahead of another former boxer in Carl Miller, who will also be on the bench.

Rob Thorn previously played for Sandal and Vale of Lune and is now working at the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station. He's a powerful winger/full back and judging by recent Stags' performances a good finisher.

The coaches select on the basis of making all three West sides balanced and competitive. So Ryan Phillips gets a chance for a full 80 minutes with the Stags with Mark Cholmondeley as front bench replacement.

Old Crocs will produce our third stern test in a row. They were unbeaten, until losing 37-3 at Aspatria last week, and we well remember the game at Halifax last season when we were second best until the last 20 minutes but our late rally wasn't enough.

On the day the experienced veteran home number 10 Waites ran the show. He even had the audacity to "sprint" 50 metres to score a try leaving Aaron Myers and Davy Tighe sprawling. It wasn't our finest moment of the season.

Old Crocs were then new to the league, still top and obviously ambitious. They went on to finish mid-table but have lost a couple of their exotic imports.

They do give a start to a 21 year old Aussie with an exotic name - Trent Beaver. He'll be in the second row opposite our own exotic Chocky Davies.

West: 15 Hare 14 Weegram 13 Edwards 12 Hodgson 11 Thorn 10 Moss 9 Williamson 1 Carr 2 A Dixon 3 C Robinson 4 T Dixon 5 Davies 6 Garside 7 D Boatman 8 J Boatman Reps 16 Thomas 17 C Miller 18 Cholmondeley

Old Crocs:15 C Seymour 14 J Wainright 13 C Duffy 12 N Richardson 11 D Bancroft 10 A Waite 9 J Hinchliffe 1 R Thomas 2 R Wheale 3 A Day 4 C Wood 5 T Beaver 6 T Michael 7 M Thomas 8 A Hinchliffe 16 M Riaz 17 R Oliver 18 J Mallard