The Cup is the club's only chance of live terrestrial TV during the year. I think it is more important that large league wins. I would play full strength with our big names on the bench to ensure a win. Swinton would be a better game to rotate players, before the two tough matches in 4 days.

we need to see how we perform without Jared.. in case we lose him. So we need to find a game where we can do this and see how we perform.

We will lose him for a game or 2 at sometime in the season, so we need to see how the others step up

Battye was carrying a knock last week hence not playing, we can afford to give him another week out.
As I understand last week kear still not 100% hence not playing, if he is fit this week actually give him a run out to get some game time.
Think you have to balance resting guys against the week off and losing there fluency, I think that’s what happoned on Sunday, timing was a bit off.
Swinton, again don’t take em lightly, they should be easy pickings for us but easy to trip up, especially in there own backyard

Predict the side for Worky game:

Kear
Williams
Hellewell
Fleming
Ogden
Meadows
Api
Bienek
Davis
Spencer
Gee
Lovell
Davis

Battye
Butler
Cunningham
Hindmarsh

With the Sheffield game to rearrange how far do we really want to go in the cup. It would be a nightmare to play midweek.

I am wondering if the game will be on today. Cumbria Police have advised that all non essential travel should be avoided. So things must be bad.
We had planned to travel up today and stay over, but have decided to heed the advice and stay at home.
We could well do without it being postponed though, as fixtures will start to build up.

The games is on. Apparently there is no snow it is just very cold. There are at least a couple of Bronco supporters there, they travelled up overnight.

Is it on the radio?

It will be covered on BBC Radio Cumbria along with the Haven game.

Seem to be struggling a bit with the grass pitch and without Sammut and others.

Certainly good preparation for Swinton next week.

A narrow 2 point victory.
Shows how weak the squad depth is.

Really can't see any benefits of progressing to the next round.

Just hope there were no injuries.