LIAM Harrison is looking forward to renewing acquaintances with a former team-mate when the Cumbria team take to the field for his testimonial match against Scotland tonight (kick-off 7pm).

Former Barrow Raiders star Liam Finch, who joined the club around the same time as Harrison ahead of the 2006 season, will be one of the players from the area's amateur clubs involved in the match.

Now plying his trade for Walney Central, Finch is joined by Millom's Ethan Kelly in the Cumbria squad, although injury sadly denied another of Harrison's former Raiders team-mates, Jamie Butler – now playing for Askam – the chance to feature.

“Jamie Butler was going to play as well, but unfortunately he broke his leg at the weekend, so it's going to be a lot of players who I have played my whole career with,” said Harrison.

“Liam Finch, I started at Barrow with him and I think Jamie Butler had only signed the year before, and he only retired last year, so for nine years I'd been there with him.

“It would have been nice to play with him one last time, but the more it builds, the more I'm looking forward to it.

“We'll have a strong team, there are about 20 of us – maybe a few more – but we'll have a good enough team, I would have thought.”

There is a strong Barrow flavour to the Cumbria team, with Swinton Lions-bound Chris Hankinson joining Harrison and the likes of Jamie Dallimore, Oliver Wilkes and Joe Bullock in the team.

Four Workington Town forwards add some extra steel to the Cumbrian pack as well, with Karl Olstrom, Kris Coward, Liam McAvoy and Marc Shackley making up the Derwent Park contingent.

They will be up against a Scotland team captained by Huddersfield Giants half-back Danny Brough and containing players such as 2015 NRL Grand Final winners Lachlan Coote and Kane Linnett.

But while Cumbria are likely to be without the Super League stars from the county, Harrison is confident they will be able to give the Scots a stiff examination ahead of their first time contesting the Ladbrokes Four Nations series against England, Australia and New Zealand.

“Especially with the players you are going to be playing against, it will be interesting,” said Harrison.

“What we get with who is playing is we have all played together all year, we know each other inside out and I'm quite confident we'll be quite competitive and give them a bit of a shock.

“We haven't played for a few weeks due to people being on holiday and I can't really testify to people keeping on top of their fitness, but we've got plenty of rolling subs and all of the talismans in the team are all playing so I'm not concerned at all.

“Barring the big names from Super League and the NRL, we're playing against players who play for teams in the same league as us – especially some of the guys from Workington, which I'm happy about. We've got a big set of forwards, let's put it that way.”