Kells and Egremont have been given every incentive to perform well in the National Conference Premier Division season which starts on Saturday.
Rugby League Express, the game’s trade paper, asked each club in the strictest confidence where they thought the teams would finish in each of the four divisions over the coming season.
From those various predictions the Express calculated composite final League tables which don’t make good reading for the West Cumbrian pair.
Kells are predicted to finish 10th with newly promoted Egremont Rangers bottom, which would mean both being relegated.
Wath Brow might also be disappointed to find-out that they will only manage sixth in the final table.
Cumbria are not represented in Division One and there’s good and bad news in Division Two for the county’s three sides.
Newly promoted Ellenborough Rangers are predicted to finish second behind Pilkington Recs and earn a second successive promotion.
But it’s not good news for the south of the county where Millom (11th) and Barrow Island (12th) are expected to be relegated.
There are three teams from Cumbria out of the tenj in Division Three and the trio are all predicted to finish in the bottom half.
Hensingham fare best in sixth with new boys Distington in seventh and Seaton Rangers bottom of the pile in 10th.
