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Former Derby County winger Simon Dawkins will get another friendly runout for Charlton Athletic this weekend.

The ex-Ram is on trial with the Addicks and played 45 minutes in their 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers last weekend.

Dawkins will now have another chance to impress on Saturday, as Lee Bowyer’s side take on Welling United.

“He’ll play again at the weekend,” Bowyer told South London Press and Mercury.

“We saw him in training at the back end of last season and obviously he did well – I could go to training and look good in small-sided games, because you haven’t got to run around too much.

“I wanted to see the fitness side of things in a big game because his situation is that he hasn’t played football for a while.

“Against QPR he did really well.

“We know we have a talent and he is different to anyone else we have got in the building.

“He has got experience and ability. It’s just the fitness side we want to see.”

Dawkins is looking for the eighth club of his career following his departure from San Jose Earthquakes in March.

The 30-year-old, who joined the MLS side from Derby in January 2016, made 69 appearances for the Rams and scored nine goals following a loan move made permanent from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013.