YORK Knights will be without both Matty Marsh and Ata Hingano against Betfred Championship leaders Featherstone Rovers on Saturday (7:30pm).

The pair, who missed last weekend’s rout of London Broncos in the Betfred Challenge Cup with rib cartilage and hamstring injuries respectively, will be sidelined for at least another week after neither were included in head coach Andrew Henderson’s 21-man preliminary squad.

They are the only two changes to Henderson’s Summer Bash squad, with fit-again prop Conor Fitzsimmons and young outside back Brad Ward returning in their places.

Fitzsimmons, who was named Betfred League One outfit Workington Town’s Player of the Season last year, will be a welcome return for Henderson, having picked up an injury in the Knights’ 22-10 defeat to Keighley Cougars on April 7.

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Highly-rated centre Oli Pratt remains absent, having been selected in Mike Applegarth’s Wakefield Trinity squad to face French giants Catalans Dragons in the Betfred Super League tomorrow – a move that comes after the 18-year-old impressed in his first team debut for the club last Friday.

York will be looking to break Featherstone's winning streak of 11 wins from as many matches on Saturday evening, having suffered a second-half collapse to lose 46-4 at the Millennium Stadium earlier this season.

James Glover scored the Knights' solitary try that day after grounding Liam Harris' grubber kick in the 58th minute.

Knights preliminary squad to face Featherstone Rovers: Butterworth, Barnard, Brown, Clarkson, Cunningham, Daley, Dee, Field, Fitzsimmons, Glover, Harrison, Jubb, Kirby, Kirmond, Michael, Price, Ta’ai, Teanby, Thompson, Towse, Ward.