Jack Sinfield praised after taking chance to impress in Wakefield Trinity's game at Huddersfield

​Sinfield came in for his first game of the Super League season when he took the place of the injured Mason Lino and stepped up with an impressive performance.

He has been tipped to develop into a possible future international by Trinity boss Powell who had no major worries in throwing him in at Huddersfield.

He explained: “I thought he was really good today, Jack.

“Mason got a little bit of a hamstring back end of a session. I’d said to Jack that he’d been training so well I felt like he was close to getting a run.

"With Mason we couldn’t really risk him. He had a scan and it showed a small tear in there, nothing major, and it was an easy decision just to put Jack in there.

"He was excellent, I couldn’t have asked any more of him. He was dangerous with his running game, he kicked the ball well and some of his instinct kicking was really good. He was tough defensively too.”

With Lino not expected to be out of action for long Sinfield’s performance has given the coach a decision to make in the next few weeks.

"That’s what you want,” added Powell. “You don’t want it to be an easy pick, you want it to be challenging, you want people to be pushing each other.”

Powell has more selection decisions for this week with Oliver Pratt back after injury at Huddersfield and Lachlan Walmsley making a two-try contribution on his return to the wing position.

With England international Tom Johnstone expected to be back in contention the wing positions are giving Powell the kind of selection headache that coaches like.

In the forwards Ky Rodwell played his first Super League game of the season against the Giants and Trinity are getting closer to full strength with Caius Faatili also back in contention after suffering a minor issue in his calf.