The former skipper comes in for Ian Pinchen, who has work commitments, while Anth is now clear from his and is available for the next few months.

He will pack down against a Pocklington side who are just one place and one point ahead of us, and another side enjoying thier best ever season.

By all accounts they're a team have grown up together, achieving some notable results this season including a narrow victory at Wheatley Hills last week. That's never an easy task, even if the home side were missing talisman try scorer Gaz Burns who has been banned for three and half years. That follows an incident where a referee broke his leg after being pushed out of the way.

However, at the last home game at Percy Road lowly Alnwick pulled off a surprise 20-12 win.

Cleckheaton's five point deduction, for not being able to name the player responsible for a serious injury back in April 2012, has now been confirmed on appeal. However, it is yet to appear on the official league table, but when it does they will still be eight pionts clear of Pock, and show no signs of losing their ability to score points from their catch and drive.

The enforced change in the West front row is the only one to the team which started last week's excellent win over YMCA.

Brinkburn is once again becoming a fortess, but that form needs to be carried into away games if we are to continue to challenge up at the top of the league.

On the bench Kyle Jamieson comes in as backs cover and Andy Turner takes his turn to provide forwards cover and, hopefully,  to add to his record of scoring a try every time he comes on.

West: Colin Cheslin, Scott Butcher, Andrew Cheslin, Liam Bailey, Luke Mallinson, Stu Waites, Ryan Painter, Anth Carr, Andrew Rollins, Adam Coates, Owen Bennett, Michael Hogan, Dan Boatman [c], Jon Boatman, Sam Miller. Reps: Andrew Dixon, Kyle Jamieson, Andrew Turner.