LEIGH Centurions will be on dawn patrol on Sunday morning with a 7.30am departure for the pre-season trial game at Workington.

Originally scheduled for a 3pm kick off at Derwent Park, the clubs have now been ordered by the Rugby League to start at 12.30am - to avoid a clash with the Wales v Papua New Guinea Lincoln World Cup quarter-final at Widnes almost 150 miles away.

"It's not ideal," concedes head coach Paul Terzis. "But we've been told by the League it's got to be 12.30pm or nothing at all."

Terzis desperately wants the game so that he can blood three of his seven close season signings.

Simon Svabic, Dave Jones and John Duffy will all play. Terzis takes a 22-man squad to Cumbria, guaranteeing all of them some game time.

Simon Baldwin and Andy Leathem will get a run out after recovering from close season hernia surgery.

Three Academy players are also included as a reward for their work during the off season; Lee Sanderson, David Lomax and Gareth Bourhill.

"The performance is more important than the result," says Terzis. "What I really want to see is how we implement some new attacking and defensive structures and how the players are responding to the pre-season work we've done on the training ground.

"It also gives an opportunity for a number of player to make some good early impressions."

Sunday's squad is: Svabic, Ingram, Wingfield P, Turley, Jones, Taberner, Hadcroft, Duffy, Bowker, Sanderson, Baldwin, Kendrick, Bristow, Fairclough, Anderson, Lomax, Leathem, Bourhill, Norman, Street, Wingfield C, Patel.