Good 2 points. We were losing games like this last year. Grind out the away wins. Not doing so cost us our place in the 8s last season.

Might be a view that we should have strolled this one, I thought we maybe should have done but as you say last year we were losing these games. If we go through the season winning games like this by 1 2 or 3 points I don't care as long as we win them.
The fax batley game looked like a cracker, the boys are going to have to work hard for the result next week.

Interesting write up on the club site, too many penalties by the sound of it from hendo himself. It us something they need to get a grip of, giving away free mtrs will not win games against the better teams.

A good win under difficult circumstances. It is a hard place to go and we had to grind out a result which we did.
A dogged team, Workington are a bit of a one trick pony. All their points and creative play came from Jarrod Sammut, their best player by far, They offered little going forward, but the penalties against us, gave them so many metres and put us under unnecessary pressure. Their two tries, one Alex Walker had his pocket picked five metres out and the other, we kicked on the fifth tackle, the ball hit Sammut, he collected it and ran in to score.
We bombed one easy try by dropping the ball and our kicking game was not all that good. We could easily have paid the price because the last five minutes were rather frantic, with both teams having a real go and either could have scored.
However a good two points,
There did not appear to be any injuries to cause concern either. On to next week.

Can you apply to be the official match reporter & twitter controller for the club??

Bostwick, assuming you were at the game, what were the penalties generally for? Are they not getting back onside or is it trying to slow the ptb down?

The club advertised for that post not so long back.

They were the usual reasons for us giving away penalties, interference at the play of the ball, laying on, we were given offside a few times too.
They were no better than us, particularly in slowing the game down. However the crowd were having a go at the referee all through the game which may have had some influence. I actually thought that he was not too bad.
We just have to be smarter because being dumb might prove to be our undoing.

An important, possibly vital, win. the good thing is these are the type of games we would never win in the last 4/5 seasons. Winning "ugly" in difficult conditions, away from home has never been our forte - so i am happy.

I hope its dry next week, will be tough but we can win and really begin to build. two home wins will put us in a good place!!

Jarrod Sammuts drop goal did one thing yesterday, other than upset his coach, Moved them from eleventh to tenth place in the league. On points difference.

Thanks for the summary. Did any of the players stand out in terms of good performance ? Poor performance ? How did Offerdahl and Kear go in their first starts ?

COYB!!!

Thats the West Cumbrian Monkey off our back!

Here you go Micky, it was not only myself who thought that Sammut's drop goal was bizarreSammut chose to slot over a drop-goal, much to the bafflement of his coach and team-mates.'" www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/Work ... b963f90-ds

Here you go Micky, it was not only myself who thought that Sammut's drop goal was bizarreSammut chose to slot over a drop-goal, much to the bafflement of his coach and team-mates.'" www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/Work ... b963f90-ds

Sammut had a brain freeze thinking Town were ahead 16-12 hence his field goal.

I reckon sammut knew exactly what he was doing. 5 minster to go, nothing on but chance of a 1 pointer to make it a 3 point deficit, who is then under pressure? The London defence, without the drop goal another try makes it a draw if conv missed, after one pointer it's a different game. Might have seemed bizarre to some but it very nearly paid off they crossed the line just before the hooter but got held up, he gave em the chance they just couldn't finish it.
Never mind we won so that's all that matters