A Workington fan i've spoke to said Ormsby was shocking, Matty English got high praise as did a lot of the lads for keeping the score down and having a go.

Yep I’ve watched them in training and it’s full contact- but no way is it of the same intensity or length of a game.
We are going into the season undercooked with many of our key players having not played a minute of a preseason game- if they weren’t necessary clubs would t play them!

Oh dear

this game prob got more coverage than the wakefield one!

Have to agree with Jools. Every other SL clubs has friendlies. We are the only club who does what we do.

I feel either 1 of 2 scenarios coming this week.

1. We will have 4/5 players playing who haven't played any pre season games and wont be at the races.

2. We will have a very weak squad and it will come apparent we have far more injuries than we have made out. What Stone will says is "We have a few blokes nursing slight knocks, we decided to give them another week" and the mystery will continue. Tom Symonds for example was meant to have a scan early this week, what was the outcome? We will probably find out in League Express...they are more reliable than the actual club.

That said I hope im very wrong!