Workington Town coach Dave Rotheram believed his side performed heroically despite losing 26-12 in their Northern Rail Cup derby with Whitehaven.

Town were leading 12-6 at the break and Rotheram, a former Haven coach, admitted he was proud but disappointed to have missed out on the points.

"Any neutral would have thought it was us who were the Championship team," he told BBC Radio Cumbria.

"There's plenty to build on, plenty to be pleased about today."

Meanwhile the Marras were able to turn around their deficit with three second-half tries, although dangerman Andy Gorski was well contained by the Workington defence.

And former St Helens' assistant Rotheram confessed that he had prepared his players for the prospect of facing the former Salford second-rower and was delighted with the response.

"It was one of the key things I picked out, I must have shown our boys four or five clips of Andy Gorski coming onto an inside ball from Carl Rudd against Batley," he said.

"He ripped Batley up on his own that day and luckily the penny must have dropped for our boys because they did a good job on him.

"We know we've been in a game, it's like a hospital ward down there at the moment so we will have to regroup."

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