“Fortunately for us, the Wigan chairman, Ian Lenagan, has allowed the kid an opportunity to join us. Hopefully, after this month, things will go well and we can look at keeping him on to the end of the year and he can go back to Wigan a more experienced Super League player.

“But, in the immediate future, he’ll certainly be in the squad this week for our game against Wakefield.”

That’s also expected to be the case with the 19-year-old Lawrence, who scored two of the 10 tries as Paul Cook’s reserve side ran riot against the City Reds.

Keal Carlile also scored twice to celebrate making his first-team debut in the Challenge up win over Rochdale the week before, while Tommy Griffiths, Greg Johnson, Alex Brown, Tom Burton Nathan Chappell and Kieron Murphy also scored.

Josh Griffin – another to have made his senior debut in the win over the Hornets – showed his goalkicking ability with eight excellent successes, and the man-of-the-match was prop Adam Walker.