DARLINGTON will give former Lancaster City midfielder Ryan Wilder another outing in their second friendly fixture at Harrogate RA tomorrow evening.

Quakers got their pre-season under way with a 3-1 win at Buxton on Saturday, with Winder, 22, impressing as a second-half substitute.

He was quite nippy and creative as Quakers scored twice while he was on the field.

“He’s been recommended to us after doing well at Lancaster and we’ll be looking at him again on Tuesday,” said manager Martin Gray. “I thought he did well, as did our new signings, Jordan Watson and Lewis Nightingale.

“Pre-season games like these are useful for several things and we’re quite happy with the performance. I thought that we controlled most of the game and maybe could have scored a couple more goals before we actually opened the scoring.”

Winder was one of five half-time substitutes after Gray fielded a strong first-half team that fell behind after keeper Peter Jameson and triallist right back Harrison Scott got in a tangle, and the ball fell kindly for Buxton striker Lee Bennett to turn home.

But Quakers, who had missed three good chances before the NPL side scored, got back into the game when the busy Nightingale, who played behind the front two, found Amar Purewal in the area, and he flicked the ball on for Liam Hardy, on his return to his previous club, to tuck past former Hartlepool keeper Jan Budtz.

The five subs did not weaken Quakers, and another of the quintet, Stephen Thompson, put them in the lead on 55 minutes with a curled free kick around the defensive wall from 20 yards and into the bottom corner of the net.

Sub keeper Jack McLaren had virtually nothing to do in the second half, before Adam Mitchell scored the third in the last minute when he beat two men and fired confidently past Budtz from the edge of the area.

Striker Nathan Cartman is one of several players who are expected to return against Harrogate RA tomorrow.