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Very attritional game Town just couldn’t make the field position count, some good personal displays from likes of Galea, Atiga, Phillips and the halves Can’t help but feel to achieve something more will be needed ball in hand from the centres

Good solid display plenty of attacking play that would yield points in league one Farrer very good him and Caine Towns best on the night

A poor player doesn’t win league one young player of the year Far too early for any player judgements

There isn’t enough people playing the sport to bring back a teams

Strongly disagree. That wasn’t possible due to Covid seasons but at the time we applied we had a full youth set up, our own club house, and a very financially viable club and in our first season had 70 players registered to the club with all criteria around perimeter fencing etc met something we’d worked towards Had Town stayed in the championship that season several players would have remained with Seaton and with a bit of luck with injuries on top of that who knows where we might be given the teams in our league who pipped us to promotion are all either premier or division one of the NCL Yet as with all amateur teams our primary purpose is to produce players to the pro game as many of our Copeland counterparts are now doing but there aren’t as many trees as there used to be in the forest something that needs to be worked on by all local stakeholders in the sport The step back is the right one for now and we’re proud to have been the first Allerdale club in the NCL but we will go again and keep giving our young talent a pathway

Really rate Aaron he’s a big strong handful

Yeah stranger things have happened haha

Be surprised at that given Muzza didn’t want him at Town

To have a stable mid table championship squad by 2027 the club needs to be setting up a talent pathway that mimics what Barrow Raiders have with a JETS programme and a college team or similar that provides a team which keeps the best lads in the area from 17-20 playing in the right environment Sounds like Town have recruited well just the timing of the announcements and Whitehaven will be in the best possible hands within there financial constraints with Les Ashe assisting there recruitment drive

Rumour is his dad is going to be assistant coach

Lots of focus seems to be on them winning a couple of more games to stay in the championship when it seems apparent to survive they need to drop into league one and regroup hopefully they get sorted but it’s seems to be a really complicated situation to resolve

There’s lots of variables at this level that we don’t know about Ciaran is a shift worker now for example and through no fault will miss training sessions, not sure he was ever going to compatible with Sammut either The season sadly hasn’t gone to plan for a number of reasons it seems Muzza to Keighley is a done deal so it’s a case of complete the season review what’s went wrong and onwards and upwards next year hopefully after a few wins to round the season off

I think this season is the worst I can remember for injuries! Would love peoples views on why that is

Good run of fixtures, injuries easing off meaning no more round pegs in square holes have all added up to a really good run of form that will hopefully continue The issue was never any individuals but some people like a scapegoat

Town have 3? Barrow and Haven 2 each?? it’s worrying that so few people are trying to keep all the Cumbrian clubs alive, and that extends to the amateur game where leagues and clubs are running on barebones of volunteers