Wakefield Trinity ready to be bolstered by trio's return for Warrington Wolves fixture

King and Atkins both played at Warrington before their respective moves to Trinity.

And after Wakefield’s game against Catalans Dragons was postponed due to safety concerns, it has given the club’s injured stars extra time to recover.

Chris Chester was hoping to field some of his returning players in this weekend’s reserve fixture against Warrington but that game has been cancelled.

“George King, Jordan Crowther and Ryan Atkins, all three of those guys are shouts for this weekend,” said Chester.

“Jordan and George are coming back from injuries sustained at Headingley on Boxing Day. We will just have to see how the guys train. Hopefully we will be getting a few bodies back this week.

“We want to try and use the reserves as a warm up for the guys who have missed a lot of pre-season or missed the last five to six weeks of training.

“But if they don’t play this week with the first team there is not much we can do to get them match fit for the week after.”

Meanwhile, Chester backed the decision to postpone Trinity’s fixture with Catalans Dragons. High winds and heavy rain meant that the club called the game off on safety grounds.

“It was the only decision that could have been made really,” said Chester.

“More for safety reasons than anything else. Just watching the floodlights swaying in the wind, it was ridiculous. Safety-wise it just wasn’t safe for anybody to be at the ground.

“It is the right decision, it is just disappointing that we have to rearrange a game midway through a season.”