SCOTT RHODES has ordered his York Acorn ARLC side to improve their away form if they want to be in the promotion shake-up in National Conference League division one.

Acorn sit in the play-off places but are four points off the top two ahead of Saturday’s trip to strugglers Wigan St Jude’s (2.30pm).

The Blues and Golds won the reverse fixture 62-22 on the opening day of the season and St Jude’s have gone on to lose nine of their other ten games.

But when asked if complacency was his biggest fear this weekend, Rhodes said: “We’ve not really spoken about that. What I’ve spoken to the players about is getting consistency away from home.

“You need to win away if you’re going to do anything in the league. It’s putting a lot of pressure on our home games at the minute.”

Acorn will be without inspirational skipper Tom Hill and Jack Byrnes, with Rhodes picking his side after training tonight.

He added: “St Jude’s won one and if you look at their results they’ve been pretty close at times so they’ve probably improved since the start of the season. But it’s up to us to get our away form right as it’s letting us down.”

Heworth resume their Yorkshire Men’s League division two campaign at fellow high-fliers Shaw Cross ‘A’.

York Lokomotive, meanwhile, host Ossett Trinity bidding to stay at the YML division three summit.

They hit top spot last week with a resounding 54-16 victory over Stanningley ‘A’.

Dominant drives from props Matty Foko-Richardson and Matt Chapman laid the foundation for loose-forward Jonny Cambridge to crash over, stand-off Liam Watling converting.

Watling soon grabbed the Lokos’ second with a fine solo effort, before a blockbusting run from Mark Musgrave saw the second-row force his way over, Watling converting.

Stanningley hit back with an unconverted try as the defence switched off at a play-the-ball, but Watling scored his second and utility forward Chris Corr, throwing dummies for fun, also crossed, Watling’s goals making the half time score 28-4.

Centre Zak Hardy, supporting a mazy run from scrum-half Tyler Dawson, got the scoreboard ticking in the second half, and next came the try of the match as winger Stu Dickenson gleefully finished off a flowing move.

Cambridge and Hardy each got their second, before Stanningley enjoyed a spell of pressure, scoring two converted tries. Lokos finished on top with a scoot from acting-half by prop Fatayi Okotete seeing him crash over.

Cambridge took the man-of-the-match honours, supported by winger Josh Johnson, Watling, Dickenson and Dawson.

Heworth ‘A’ host Wetherby Bulldogs in the entry division.