YMCA must immediately get back on the winning trail tomorrow when they visit fellow strugglers Malton & Norton (3.00).
After suffering a 35-19 mauling at the hands of Ilkey, when they conceded 32 points in the first half, coach Carl Thewlis needs to steady the ship in Yorkshire I.
Gareth Greenwood, a new signing who came off the bench at Ilkley, makes his full debut at Malton, playing on the wing, while David Rees moves into the centre alongside Gavin Stead.
Another of Stead’s Development teammates Adam Ryder is again on the opposite wing, while a third member, Stuart Dyke, who also came on as a late sub against Ilkley, starts in the back row.
YMCA: (from) Belton, Ryder, Rees, Stead, Greenwood, Williams, Wolfe, Joblin, Van Niekirk, Hellawell, Housley, Anderson, Walker, Dyke (SJ), Farringdon. Subs: Dyke (SD), Hodge, Morton.
YMCA II (v Pontefract, a, 3.00, meet 12.30): Murphy, Parker, Earnshaw, Hellawell (D), Elsworth, Stafford, Nyahoda, Boothroyd, Bedford, Wood, Taylor, Sample, Scanlon, Mossley, Smith. subs: Orton-Blue, Dalton (M).
YMCA III (v Halifax Vandals, h, 3.00, meet 2.00, from): Saville, Nasey, Butterworth, Garrity, Holmes, Woods, Hirst (I), Bandy (S), Sykes (M), Tucker, Hall, Stevenson, Noble (R), Greaves, Bakes, Ribbons, Dalton (T).
YMCA U19 Colts (v Otley, Sunday, 12.00, meet 11.00): Dyke, Bell, Dyke, Orton-Blue (A), Willans, Hodge, Sellers, Hopkins, Walsh, Senior, Roberts, Pearce, Stead, McAspen, Ryder, Marshall, Bentley, Butterfield.
