Ilkley 11, Keighley 3 - Ilkley made it three wins out of five in Yorkshire Division Two, but you won't find their coach John Atkinson talking of promotion.

"You have to have achievable goals," said the former Leeds and Great Britain rugby league star.

"I haven't set a target of going up, but I have set a target of maybe trying to get into the top four, which would be a vast improvement from last season, and I think that is an achievable goal," added the man who took over from Simon Tipping at Stack's Field two-thirds of the way through the last campaign.

"Anything above that would be a bonus, but I am just happy we got the two points in what was a bit of a scrappy match.

"We were in that same position the previous week and gave it all away, and it was important this time that we didn't."

Atkinson was referring to the Intermediate Cup tie between the sides, also at Ilkley, where the hosts were comfortably ahead going into the last ten minutes only to concede two tries and lose 15-12.

"But being in a physical match like this one was will have done the lads a lot of good, though we sometimes try to play football in impossible positions.

"I am not totally happy with the way we played this week, but we did play about 60 per cent of our game.

"Our commitment was better. We have a tendency when we get in front to think that the match is all over, and we did that in our earlier meeting. But we not only missed a couple of tackles in the cup, we also missed goal kicks.

"However, we made a few changes and had Anthony Cadman back at fly half, and it always makes a vast difference when you have your goal-kicker back in.

"If we had kicked our four penalties in the cup, which were all in kickable positions, we would probably have won that match as well, and two of them were under the posts."

Keighley's front-row stalwart John Duffy said: "If anything I think we played better this time than in the cup match, but Ilkley played a lot better than in the cup, and they probably wanted it a bit more."

Added Duffy, who will turn 40 in six weeks and was playing his first full game in ages: "We are a young team apart from myself and fly half Johnny Harrison so we are in a bit of a transitional period.

"But we have some promise with the centres Chris Dooling and Dale Towler, especially defensively, and Morgan Bailey at No 8 is only 19, and is really putting the effort in.

"He needs a bit of guidance, but he has all the attributes - it just needs a bit of channelling."

The game produced only one try and it came in ther 31st minute.

No 8 Gus Rogers made the break, passed to scrum half Chris Pring and he put winger Ben McDonald over in the right-hand corner.

Their other points came from two penalties by Cadman - one in the seventh minute after Keighley were offside, and the other in the 66th minute.

The closest Keighley came to a try was when Bailey was shoved into touch by the right-hand corner flag in the first half.

Their only points came from a well-struck Harrison penalty in the 36th minute, but he missed with a couple of other efforts.