Whitehaven’s attractive home game with Leigh Centurions has been switched.
Originally scheduled for Sunday, July 24 it will now be played on July 25 with a 7.45pm kick-off.
It means the game has been selected for Premier Sports coverage and will be the second time Haven will feature on the channel.
Their home derby game with Workington Town on Easter Sunday (April 17) will also be screened by Premier Sports (ko 7pm).
They were televised a week gone Saturday when they played St Helens in the Challenge Cup and it was streamed on the Sportsman channel.
Certainly by July coach Jonty Gorley hopes his injury woes will have eased.
Haven went into Sunday’s game at Halifax with only three substitutes and by the end they only had 13 fit players.
It contributed to the result – 46-24 to Halifax after the Cumbrians had held a 24-10 half-time lead.
Despite the injury issues on the day Gorley felt it was a game that Whitehaven should have gone on and won.
“Obviously I can’t fault the effort in tough circumstances but I still feel that if we had been a bit smarter we could have gone on to win that game,” he said.
But he does accept that the club has huge issues with injuries and says his phone has been red hot as he has been trying to bring in recruits.
Huddersfield hooker George Roby made his debut at Halifax, while both Wigan and Hull KR had lined-up loan players only to change their minds because of their own injury problems.
As a consequence Saturday’s 1895 Cup play-off game with Sheffield at Featherstone is going to be very low down on Gorley’s list of priorities.
