Fox aware visitors will be keen to make up for poor start

They were soundly beaten 23-10 in their Good Friday cross-city derby with fierce rivals Hull KR.

Ex-England international Fox featured in plenty of derby victories for Rovers before rejoining Wakefield last season so knows just how much the visitors will be smarting after that bitter taste of defeat.

But with Trinity having finally picked up their own first win in five, defeating Castleford Tigers on Friday night, Fox said: “It is a big game for us. I’m sure they will come all guns blazing. It’s a good opportunity for us to kick on.

“There have been a couple of games that we’ve lost, but we were pretty close to winning in the past few weeks.

“We’ve been disappointed because we’ve always been in the game, but we haven’t managed to get the win. Sometimes you can have a good performance, but not get the win.

“We’ve had some positive performances, but it lifts the whole squad to get that win (against Castleford) and hopefully winning can become a habit.”

Fox scored two tries against Castleford and he feels they are now more than capable of pushing on and earning a play-off spot for the second season running.

“It is good to get back to winning ways,” he added, Trinity having surged into a 25-0 interval lead on Good Friday.

“We’ve got a few players back now and it’s good for our morale to get a win.

“I thought the first half was one of our best halves of the season.

“It was really good to get the result and we were very pleased.

“It should give us some more confidence. We all believe in ourselves and if we all work to our strengths anything can happen.”

Tim Smith, Justin Poore, Ali Lauitiiti and Danny Kirmond all returned from injury to bolster Wakefield and they should be further augmented by the availability of key prop Andy Raleigh today. Stand-off Paul Sykes should also be fit.

He went off in the second half with a significant cut and coach Richard Agar said: “We wanted to get him back on, but with 20 to 25 minutes left we only had three interchanges remaining and some big guys who were worried about seeing the game out.

“We didn’t feel we could afford to use an interchange to put him back on.”