BRETT Carter is happy to play in whatever position head coach Paul Crarey requires him after making the switch from Workington Town.

Although primarily a full-back, Carter has found himself pressed into service on the wing in the past two seasons for Workington.

While he enjoys the freedom offered by playing in the number one shirt, he acknowledges he faces a battle to dislodge Ryan Fieldhouse and highly-rated young prospect Luke Cresswell for it at Craven Park.

So Carter expects he will once again be plying his trade out wide when the 2017 Kingstone Press League One season gets underway and he is willing to take up whichever role Crarey asks of him.

“All my career, I’ve played full-back and it’s a position I absolutely love because you get a bit of a free role,” said Carter. “I’ve spoken to Paul and he said I could fill in a couple of different positions.

“I’m presuming I’ll be fighting for a wingers’ position, because Ryan Fieldhouse has been playing really well at full-back and they’ve got Luke there, who is a really good lad.

“I’m happy to play wherever he’ll put me and I just want to get back to enjoying my rugby again. As long as the team are going well, I don’t mind where I’m playing at the moment.”

Carter will be taking a lead role off the field as well as part of the Raiders’ community team, along with new team-mates Joe Bullock and Tom Walker.

Several meetings have already taken place regarding how they can build on the work done this year, and Carter is bringing with him several ideas which he felt made a significant impact during his and Walker’s time in a similar job at Derwent Park.

“We do a lot of coaching in junior and senior schools to try to get it out there as much as we can, so it’s quite in-demand,” said Carter.

“Then we’ve done reading programmes and things like that to help teachers out with that side of things.

“Because we come in and we’re from a rugby club, maybe the younger boys in particular listen a bit more and maybe want to get involved in that side of things when it’s coming from a different angle.

“We’ll just have to see. We’ve got a few more meetings to go through what we want to deliver in schools, and hopefully we can put it all in place, get out to schools a lot more and help them out.”

After missing out in the play-off final last season, Barrow have their sights firmly set on securing one of the League One promotion places in 2017.

Full-time newcomers Toronto Wolfpack are firm favourites to go up at champions, but while Carter is wary of the dangers they pose, he insists the financial advantage of the Canadian side can be overcome.

“It will tough with the Canadian team throwing as much money around as they will be,” said Carter.

“But from previous experience, teams do a lot better when they’ve got a good bond with each other as well.

“I don’t think it’s all about money. You see a team like Salford in Super League, they’ve thrown so much money around and sometimes it just doesn’t work out like that.

“You need to have a good team spirit as well and I think Barrow have definitely got that.”