KEIGHLEY COUGARS will have no rest amid a tough start to the season, interim coach Jordie Hedges has vowed.
Keighley have won only one of their five matches, by a point against Midlands Hurricanes in the preliminary stages of the 1895 Cup.
They were thrashed by York and Featherstone to be eliminated from the Challenge and 1895 Cups respectively, as well as the comprehensive opening-round league loss at Rochdale after which Jake Webster stood aside as coach.
And under the leadership of Hedges, who only returned to the club as an assistant at the beginning of pre-season after a spell with London Broncos, a 20-4 loss at Whitehaven left them winless in League One.
The competition’s break at the weekend gave them welcome time to prepare for another clash with Midlands at home this Sunday.
Hedges said: “We’ve got a week off but we’ll be in training because we have to be, we have no choice.
“We don’t have the luxury of days off because we can’t get the product right on the field. We’ll be training until we get it right.”
He added of the Whitehaven loss: “It was nowhere near good enough. We’re very disappointed with that.
“That’s not what we should like. It’s not what we’d spoken about all week.
“(We made) eleven errors and (conceded) twelve penalties. Week in, week out we say the same thing. It’s an individuals thing, which I’ll address.
“It’s a tough one for those who have come up and supported us. We let them down massively.
“Rest assured we’ll go back to the drawing board, we’ll work hard and we’ll get it right.”
