Many local clubs will be hoping that the end of the Tri-Nations will see a significant number of amateur players returning to the game.

There can be no doubt that the competition fired the imagination and was well supported but now it should be back to Saturday action with only Christmas shopping a possible diversion.

In the second round of the President's Cup, holders Clayton welcome Division One side Dodworth to Lidget Green.

The Villagers ran in over 50 points last week but coach Richard Hesletine knows only too well they can play better, especially with the carrot of retaining the Pennine League's most-prized silverware.

Queensbury must be sick of the sight of Premier rivals Drighlington.

They lost away to the Leeds outfit in the Yorkshire Cup and then crashed at home the following week in the league encounter.

Bury have had to call on a clutch of young players and are desperate for some of

their more experienced faces to make the tie.

Dudley Hill are fancied by many to go all the way to the final.

However, the Hill will have to be at their best at home to a Brighouse Rangers side that were only knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Tetley Yorkshire Cup by the narrowest of margins.

West Bowling A are at home to Kippax Welfare.

The Castleford side are a division below Wests but they are clearly punching below their weight in their first season in the Pennine League.

Bowling will be looking to hooker Dean Garside to lead the challenge following his five-star performance against Halifax Irish last week.

The Andrew Bennett Memorial Trophy second-round tie between Underbank and Thornton promises to be a cracker.

The Holmfirth-based club returned to the Summer Conference pleading that they were grossly under strength and were dropped down the divisions.

But they have confused the administrators by winning all their Division Three games, while Thornton have slipped back after a bright start in Division Four.

Thornton supremo Gary Naylor, however, has recruited well and an upset is a possibility.

Victoria Rangers A will have to raise their game in order to get any change out of visitors Bank Top Harriers, especially with Harriers captain Jason Gelders hitting top form of late.

In the Pennine League Premier Division, Birkenshaw travel to Westgate Redoubt having had the benefit of a week off, which has seen their long injury list diminish, and Victoria Rangers will give a fitness test to prop forward Gareth Barnes (knee) prior to the visit to Keighley Albion.

Division Four's match of the day is at Towngate, where Wyke entertain Undercliffe in a crucial promotion battle.