PAUL Crarey has no intention of reining in Barrow Raiders' attacking instincts after another try-fest against Oxford last Sunday.

The 64-14 victory in the League One Cup semi-final marked the third game in a row the Raiders have racked up over a half-century of points – and the sixth time in total they have done so this year in all competitions.

Indeed, they head into Saturday's League One home game with South Wales Ironmen having scored 164 points in their last three outings and head coach Crarey will continue to encourage his side to showcase their offensive strengths.

“Once we get players in motion around the ball carrier, it's very difficult (to stop),” said Crarey. “You don't need a lot of structure for that, you just need players in motion and everyone on the park around the ball carrier.

“Once you break it's free-flowing and some of the tries we put on in the second half (against Oxford) were outstanding. We probably over-played with the last pass in the first half rather than have players in motion and play more in contact with offloads at the line, but we fixed that up and it's really good to see the brand of football we play at times.

“It can kill us at times, but we're not going to stop them doing it because we're here to entertain crowds and if we go back to one-out football we'll become a very ordinary side, so we won't do that – no matter if it costs us a game or two.”

Crarey is optimistic Barrow can continue their free-scoring ways when South Wales come to Craven Park on Saturday evening, with the visitors having yet to win a game in Kingstone Press League One.

However, they have run both York City Knights and Newcastle Thunder close and Crarey will be looking for the strength in depth in the Barrow squad to come to the fore as he rotates the team with a busy upcoming week in mind.

“We've got players coming back who are putting pressure on, but it's about us as a group,” said Crarey. “We've not looked outside the group when we've had injuries, we've contained what we're doing within the group and it has been really good for us.

“The lads who are coming in are playing well and putting pressure on. South Wales will be a different proposition – we'll rotate up a bit for them – then we've got Keighley, then Leeds and then Toronto. It gets tough from now on in, but whatever happens I'm very proud of the group.”

Hooker Karl Ashall is set to make his first appearance of the 2017 campaign after recovering from a broken arm sustained in pre-season, with Nathan Mossop likely to be rested after playing big minutes in most games so far.

Danny Morrow is set to feature for the first time since suffering an injury the league-opening 28-0 win over York in March as well.

And Crarey is confident the Raiders squad can cope with playing three games in the space of eight days, with a midweek trip to Keighley Cougars next Wednesday followed by the Challenge Cup sixth-round tie away to Leeds Rhinos a week on Sunday.

“We've got a great squad and when we've changed up, we've done really well,” said Crarey. “I spoke to a few of them about resting up and playing Wednesday.

"We can mix and match, we did it and we beat Hemel by a long way when we did it. We'll do that against South Wales and it's up to the lads who come in to perform, and they'll all do that because they all run the same structures.

“We don't separate anyone, we all run the same plays and so we shouldn't falter. I'd rather play Keighley now with a full complement of players rather than go there midweek after we've played Doncaster.

“We've got to play it before the Super Eights, there are no free weekends for us, but we've got a big squad and we'll got there and see how we come out of it.”