Coach Carl Forster knows Whitehaven still have work to do to regain their place in the Championship.

Lying second in the League One table, and now favourites to join Toronto Wolfpack at the higher level next season, there is no easy route to achieve that goal.

“There isn’t an easy game in the Super 8s, especially as most of the clubs are strengthening their squads,” said Forster.

“We were pleased to get our four home games but the three we play away will be tough."

Haven have to go to Toronto, Doncaster and Workington Town, as Forster’s men try to maintain their place in the table and secure a home game in the semi-final play-off.

Clearly, Toronto will be the hardest game in Canada, but Doncaster’s new coach Richard Horne is optimistic after adding four deadline signings to his squad.

Horne, still on the coaching staff at Hull FC, has signed back Nick Rawsthorne and forward Brandon Westerman on loan from the Super League club.

Winger Ryan Jones has come in on a permanent deal from Warrington, while French full-back Hakim Miloudi is available for the rest of the season.

Workington away completes the Eights for Haven and that fiercely-contested local derby brings it’s own kind of pressure.

Keighley, one of the four teams to visit the Recreation Ground, have added to their squad by bringing in prop Trae O’Sullivan from Batley.

York City Knights have been busy too, with four loan signings boosting James Ford’s squad.

Newcastle Thunder were denied a seventh straight win by a late Hunslet penalty in their last outing. They start the Eights at home to Town and then at Whitehaven.

Which leaves Barrow, who open the Eights back at the Recreation Ground on Sunday.