After last week’s defeat at home against Silloth, Furness find themselves on the road as they travel up the coast to take on Whitehaven in Cumbria Division One tomorrow.

The Blues’ squad is looking strong this week and will be looking to upset the apple cart and take the points against a team who are six places above them in the table in this outing.

Skipper Corne Els will be rallying the troops, with the link play between David Finlayson and former Hawcoat Park player James Howden key in their specific half-back rolls.

Jordan Ashton and Jamie Knight are likely to be the men out wide with Alex Brown and Tez Nueto filling centre field looking to bring the returning Iestyn Humphries into the line from full back.

The front three will have plenty to do, so Cam McClure, Grant Adams and Chris Dalton will all be up for the fight. Els is likely to be in the back row alongside Will Mallinson and Joe Mallinson, with the second rows to be selected from Kieran Mason, Jack Budgen and Danny Scott.

Furness have yet to win away from home this season and face a tough job in bouncing back from last week’s 22-14 reverse against Silloth.

Hawcoat Park’s great 51-13 home win against Workington last week sees them travel west to face a good, sprightly team in Egremont in good spirit.

Last week’s victory wasn’t as easy as the score suggests and it will be very similar this week with Hawcoat having to work hard to take the points.

There’s only a couple of changes this week, but up front stays the same with Colin Niven, Adam Granger and Paul Woodburn taking up the mantle. John Donnan keeps his second row jersey and will be joined by either Lee van Haron or Andrew Graham.

Grady Slater travels from Glasgow and will feature in the back row alongside Harry Higgins and Callum Ramsey, although a late fitness test on Alfie White may change this.

Will Coles continues at scrum-half and will look to get good ball to fly-half Elliot McDermott, who was brilliant last time out.

Centre Lewis Sayle is joined by Luke Harrison with wing men Glenn Kaighan and Rodney Odandi on hand to get over the whitewash. George Smith comes in at full back and with a full squad the team look good going into this one.