Featherstone Rovers 86 The Army 0: Easy victory as Featherstone battle Army

Liam Welham bagged four tries, his fellow centre Ian Hardman scored a hat-trick and scrum-half Liam Finn piled up 26 points with a try and 11 goals.

Young players Tom Carr (two), Matty Johnson (two) and Mufara Mvududu joined in the try spree as Featherstone ran riot, despite resting several key players ahead of Thursday’s first Co-operative Championship game at Leigh .

Greg Worthington, Bryn Powell and Andy Bostock were the other try scorers as Rovers repeated their 94-2 victory over the Army at the same stage of the competition two years ago.

The Army, who were 12-0 down after just six minutes and trailed 36-0 at half-time, battled to the end but never looked like scoring.

Featherstone Rovers: Saxton; Powell, Hardman, Welham, Carr; Worthington, Finn; Tonks, Kaye, Grayshon, Spears, Smeaton. Substitutes: Mvududu, Dee, Pearson, Johnson.

The Army: Butters; Seru, Gregory, Lyons, Kearns; Gray, Brown; Donnolly, Kay, Ligani, Laing, Zuhnen, Marangon. Substitutes: Smart, Winn, Cavuilati, Shaw.

Referee: D Merrick (Pontefract).