VIKINGS will tackle perennial bogey side Wakefield Trinity on Sunday looking for their first win over the Yorkshire outfit since returning to the top flight in 2012.

Games between the two sides have invariably been close – but remarkably the often unfancied Wildcats have always had the wherewithal to take the spoils.

The way the league format has been restructured this year, with the top eight splitting off after 23 rounds, the clash between the two is arguably an early four-pointer.

Coach Denis Betts expects Trinity – coached by one-time Vikings scrum half James Webster – to be fired up for this one after winning their opening two matches.

Betts said: “Wakefield play really well against us and they have always been really close games but we have not been able to get beyond them.

“We are on our home ground and feel like our form in the whole as been pretty good apart from a 20 minute spell against Leeds.

“We are confident but so too are Wakefield who are thriving off the back of nobody giving them a chance and they have got a pretty strong side.

“They have got strong centres and in the back row they have Danny Kirkmond – one of the best in the league with plenty of teams chasing him. Ali Lauitiiti gives them plenty too as does Paul McShane in the hooking role.

“Half back Tim Smith is thriving again – he is full of beans and pulling the team around.

“It is going to be a good game.”

Betts has virtually a fully fit squad to choose from apart from Willie Isa, who will be sidelined for five weeks with a medial ligament strain.

But he revealed that wing Paddy Flynn is up for selection on Sunday, with Lloyd White back in the mix and prop Phil Joseph pretty close too.