Whitehaven slumped to a 66-0 defeat at Featherstone Rovers and are now third bottom of the Championship.
After a great opening 10 minutes, in which they could have had three tries, they had Edene Gebbie sin-binned and in that 10-minute spell the home side scored two tries.
From that point Whitehaven just weren’t in the contest and with further injury issues – hard-working forward Owen McCarron is the latest casualty – they just fell further behind.
Coach Jonty Gorley said: “I honestly thought we could go down there and get a result. With the names on our team sheet I thought it was possible.
“But we didn’t put ourselves in front, had Gebbie sin-binned, and after that it wasn’t the same. The effort was there but the skill levels weren’t.
“I thought the days of 66-0 defeats away from home were over but obviously they aren’t.”
Those early misses cost Whitehaven severely because on 14 , Hardcastle, minutes, in their first serious attack Connor Barley got on the end of a kick from Connor Jones to score the first try which new signing Dec Patton converted.
By half-time that lead had grown to 30-0 with tries from Brad Day (2), Caleb Aekins and Josh Hardcastle, all converted by Patton.
Two minutes into the second-half Fev scored again through Patton and he added the conversion to set-up a commanding home display.
On 59 minutes Day completed his hat-trick; Aekins got his second and there were further touchdowns for Gareth Gale, Connor Wynne and Danny Addy to complete the rout. Patton converted for a 100% performance with the boot.
