Eye on the Ball with Alan Irving

Town’s Barmy Army savour win

EASY, easy, easy – and more – chanted Workington Town’s own version of The Barmy Army.

Last updated 9 February 2011
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Can Luke play it cool in derby?

MOMENTOUS – that’s how Dick Raaz views Sunday’s local derby clash at The Recreation Ground.

Last updated 2 February 2011
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Hopes are high but expectations are reined in

THE Rhinos, as well as a new Whitehaven signing, are in town – and a warm welcome to both.

Last updated 26 January 2011
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Things begin to take shape for long-awaited sports stadium

GOOD news for Haven fans, along with supporters of the next-door soccer club, is that the go ahead for the proposed Pow Beck sports stadium seems virtually a stone’s throw away.

Last updated 19 January 2011
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Take the game by scruff of the neck

THE Recreation Ground continues to buzz. The Ike Southward Memorial Trophy defeat in no way dilutes the new club’s optimism and anticipated renaissance in 2011.

Last updated 12 January 2011
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Not the best day at the office

IT wasn’t the best day at the office but by the same token it was a first day at the office for this new Whitehaven rugby league side.

Last updated 5 January 2011
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Who should be next to enter Hall of Fame?

WHO should be the next Cumbrian to be inducted into the Rugby Football League’s Hall of Fame to join those two great old-timers Martin Hodgson, from Egremont, and Elbra’s Douglas Clark?

Last updated 29 December 2010
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Old enemies become deadly rivals once more

LOCAL derby games could well be restored to something like their former glories as Whitehaven and Workington Town bid to restore their own fortunes in a race for promotion to the Co-operative Championship proper.

Last updated 22 December 2010
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Can Stan help to prop up Haven?

SHOUT down the pit shaft and a budding prop forward will come up. That was the old maxim at Whitehaven. And with so many good front rowers hewn from working the coal face there seemed to be a grain of truth in it.

Last updated 15 December 2010
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Will Barrow enter Super League?

BARROW’S bid for a franchise may give us a clue as to how serious Red Hall is of inviting Cumbria into Super League.

Last updated 8 December 2010
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What odds on a double West Cumbrian promotion?

THE late, great Ike Southward would appreciate the scenario. After Boxing Day’s eagerly awaited clash of the old enemies to honour the memory of Cumberland’s finest ever winger – surely a future RL Hall of Fame nominee – Whitehaven and Workington will battle it out in a Northern Rail Cup pipe-opener on February 6. Both will be played on the Recreation Ground.

Last updated 1 December 2010
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