I THOUGHT it was a very professional performance last Monday at Hunslet in very difficult conditions.

I was delighted with what the players came up with. They played some really good Rugby League on a surface that wasn’t really conducive for playing attractive football.

I also thought we were very smart at times and, although we had some periods of uncertainty we can identify why and take steps to put them right.

What we are looking for is not only consistency from week to week but consistency in the 80 minutes.

Of course the wet weather hasn’t helped us.

We feel as though we have a running team and a highly-skilled team but we aren’t being able to show it at the moment.

We see glimpses of it in every game but we haven’t been able to show it week in week out because of, firstly, the conditions we are training in and secondly the conditions we are playing in.

These are just challenges that have been thrown at us and the players must be complimented because they have met them head on.

That has pitted us against Warrington Wolves in the next round but before that we have two games prior to that and we are only focusing on the Workington game this weekend.

You certainly can’t disrespect a Cumbrian team, especially on their own ground; it’s the smallest pitch in the competition – 90 metres by 60 – and that ensures that you have to play in a slightly different way to what you would probably want to.

But we feel we can make those adaptations this week before we prepare for the game against Coventry.

Workington are coached by Leon Pryce and he will be very keen to put one over on us.

He has played at Bradford, Hull and at St Helens and he will have worked under some great coaches.

He will obviously be trying to implement what he has learned with his own team.

They have also got a very experienced team. They have Scott Leatherbarrow in the halves along with Jamie Durran, who has a great running game.

The have Oliver Wilkes and Ryan Bailey up front with Sean Penkywicz, who is known to everybody, coming off the bench.

So when you put that with some local Cumbrian players, such as James Newton, the starting hooker, you will see that they will offer a strong challenge.

It’s up to us to be ready for that challenge in our fourth game in what we have called our Easter period.

The two Hunslet games and the game against Oldham we identified as the Easter set of games and the fourth one is this game up in Cumbria.