Match Preview

This week we welcome our near neighbours from Distington in round one of the Cumbria Cup, previous games between the two sides have never failed to deliver a strong, spirited competition. Distington are coached by argubly one of the best half backs seen in recent years at Hensingham, playing in the very successful youth teams in the early 90s with current Hensingham Coaches Howard & Chris, Carl Captained Great Britain and won the BARLA Player of the year in his time at Hensingham before Signing for Whitehaven. Carl enjoyed another successful spell at Hensingham after his time at Whitehaven before returning to his home club Distington to take up the coaching role where he has developed a strong, well drilled team who, last season, were all conquering in the CML taking the league title and all cups, arguably Distington's biggest challenge last year was in Round one where we pushed them all the way only to lose 24-20 to a try minutes from the end, this week will be a big test see how far we have developed after a year in the Cumbria Mens League.