The Cougars cruised to victory in the annual Peter Fell Memorial match, seeing off the cream of Keighley’s amateur talent 60-0.

Jason Demetriou’s team were never under serious threat, despite a stern challenge from the select side, and racked up 11 tries to give him a second win as coach.

With predecessor Barry Eaton – now an assistant at Super League club Crusaders – watching on from the stands, Demetriou oversaw a solid if not entirely convincing performance.

“It was good for the boys to get a hit-out and the most important thing is we came through the game with no injuries,” he said.

“I wasn’t happy with the first half because I don’t think we executed as well as we’ve been practising but in the second we got back and executed a lot better. We got a lot more from the second half than we did the first.

“We were reasonably happy that we kept them to zero, although with the first set of six I thought they were going to score and probably should have scored.

“Overall it was a worthy exercise in the end. Everyone got 50 to 60 minutes, apart from Mossy (Craig Moss) and Belch (Dan Belcher) who played 40 each and that’s important.”

The Cougars suffered an early scare when Jason Barnes came close to scoring, knocking on with the try-line in sight, but they quickly asserted their dominance.

James Feather opened the scoring and James Hutchinson claimed a well-taken try, fielding a drop-out before cutting in from the wing and beating three tackles to score.

Former Bulls academy star Rick Barr crashed over soon after but the amateurs gave as good as they got and Moss scored the only other try of the half three minutes before the break.

Andy Shickell showed impressive power to claim a quick-fire double after the interval, before Joe Copperwaite finished a smooth backs move.

Ben Sagar stepped on the gas to touch down and Hutchinson claimed a second try, Jamie Shepherd completing the scoring with a late double.

Paul Drake also registered 16 points in an encouraging goal-kicking display.