You could not have blamed Rollins if his citing experience had resulted in him turning his back on Union to concentrate on his rugby league.

Instead, he has not missed a training session since we failed to persuade an RFU panel that it was physically impossible for him to have gouged a player on the far side of a a maul, and that the "culprit" was most likely to have been a fellow Chester player.

Andrew Cheslin also set a similar example by continuing to train hard during his own suspension, after also falling foul of the Chester citing camera.

They'll be in the squad which also sees Stu Waites, Nathan Myers and Andrew Dixon return after missing last week's rearranged game with Burnage. That was a disjointed affair where our frustration cost us points in the last quarter.

They'll take on a Bees side who are seven points clear of the danger zone, and doubtless looking to maintain that gap as Birkenhead Park have picked up a few decent results of late.

We won the first fixture 30-28 thanks to a Stu Waites drop goal.

According to my, presumably, distant relative Benji Pickin writing on the Bees website: "We have some news emanating from the Bees changing room in that Richard Scull and Chris Fisher are both still unavailable through injury this week; Benny Greaves is unavailable as he is at a wedding and Matt Robinson is away on the slopes."

West: Zac Southern, Scott Butcher, Colin Cheslin, Andrew Cheslin, Greg Edwards, Stu Waites, Ryan Painter, Ian Pinchen, Andrew Dixon, Adam Coates, Nathan Myers, Michael Hogan, Sam Miller, Dan Boatman [c], Jon Boatman. Reps: Luke Mallinson, Andrew Rollins, Jay Corbett.