Rock-solid Keighley want to add a cutting edge to their attack.

The Rose Cottage Club beat neighbours Skipton 21-6 in Saturday’s big local rugby union derby to claim a fifth victory in their last six Yorkshire Division One matches.

The sixth-placed side have only conceded 183 points in 12 league matches – and 65 of those came in the first two games – but Keighley’s director of rugby Jeff Inman wants his side to be more clinical at the other end.

He said: “We have the third best defence in the league (behind leaders Wheatley Hills on 115 and seventh-placed Scarborough on 165) but we don’t score enough tries. We need to take more of our chances.

“Mind you, sixth place is dizzy heights when you are used to finishing in the bottom four – we have had some good results.”

Inman puts their success down to “great concentration in training, that a young side are a year older, that Dave Lister has joined us from Wharfedale and that Scott Dyson has returned to us from university”.

Keighley have conceded only 62 points in winning five of their last six league games but that is a far different story from their opening defeats at home to Castleford (26-7) and at Dinnington (39-16).

“We had done all the drills that we needed but we were short of match practice - some knockabouts,” confessed Inman.

Keighley have an interesting test on Saturday at York, who are one point and one place higher in the table.

The Crusaders are only four points off second place and a possible play-off match but there is no talk of the P word at Utley.

Inman said: “Having finished sixth last season, we just want to finish as high up the table as possible.”