WHARFEDALE travel to Manchester tomorrow with coach John Lawn challenging his side to stop under-achieving (writes Mike Crowther).

Last Saturday's 22-22 draw with Launceston was another case of what might have been after the Greens had squandered a 12-0 half-time lead.

Having already drawn at home to Halifax - coincidentally by the same score - and lost by a point to Orrell, Dale have come agonisingly close to victory on three occasions.

Wins from these games would have seen the Greens sitting pretty in fourth place in the table rather than their current position of fourth from bottom.

Lawn wants to see his players up their performance level to bridge the small gap between being a successful side and a struggling one.

He said: "At various times in games, we've been playing at 95 to 98 per cent of where we should be. But more often, we've been at 50 to 60 per cent.

"We've got to try and shift that to around 75 to 80 per cent and make the times when we're at 98 per cent last longer."

A key area of improvement for Dale is defence, with only Orrell having conceded more points in National Two.

For the first time this season, Lawn fields an unchanged starting line-up, with the only changes coming on the bench. Scrum half James Doherty replaces Chris Meehan, who gets a full game with the Foresters. Phil Peel is back after missing last week's game with a late injury.