PICKING up two points is all that matters for York RUFC tomorrow.

The Clifton Parkers may have rode their luck – fly-half Paul Williams’ last-minute penalty handing them a 14-11 victory at Yarnbury last time out – but a win keeps them in the early Yorkshire One promotion frame.

It’s been a much-changed York outfit in the past couple of weeks, due to injuries and unavailability, and ahead off tomorrow’s Shipton Road clash against rivals Castleford, there is more chopping and changing.

Will Dutton moves across the front row with Darren Rutherford missing, and James Arkle is also out, but there is a welcome return at centre for Sam Arkle.

Lee Denham transfers from second row to number eight and skipper Jon Sharpe, after missing the Yarnbury match, is among the replacements. Joe Browning is the latest player to perform a stint at full-back.

The game should prove an interesting barometer of York’s progress so far this season, with their opponents sitting second in the table having lost only once in their opening six games.

Finishing matches empty-handed is becoming a distressing habit for Malton and Norton.

The Gannock-based club had high hopes of picking up their first points of the Yorkshire One campaign at Bridlington last week, following a promising display against Bradford Salem, but again came up short – falling to a 22-7 defeat.

That was their sixth straight loss and they will be hoping that will not become unlucky seven when derby rivals and fifth-placed Scarborough come to visit.

Things look equally bleak for Selby, who are also yet to pick up a single point this season.

It was the manner of their 42-13 trouncing at Dinnington, a mid-table Yorkshire One outfit, that will have worried the Sandhill Lane club’s coaches and they will try to put things right.

But third-placed Wheatley Hills, with five wins and one defeat so far, provide tough opposition.

Pocklington have a long trip to the Dales to meet North Ribblesdale at Settle in Yorkshire Two.

They are without forwards Andy Wilson and John Tilley, who were both concussed last week, and centre Joe Holbrough, who twisted a knee.

But former York University hooker Brett Britton returns to the pack along with Ed Bean and Ed Rowbottom, while three-quarter Graham Pickering is in line for a first appearance of the season.

York Railway Institute return to Yorkshire Four action at New Lane against Leeds Corinthians.

Having played Northallerton in a friendly last week, the in-form Railwaymen resume a league campaign which has had a highly satisfactory start of three wins and a draw.