A proper commitment – Part-time Whitehaven gear up for 470-mile Cornwall trip
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A proper commitment – Part-time Whitehaven gear up for 470-mile Cornwall trip A proper commitment – Part-time Whitehaven gear up for 470-mile Cornwall trip Part-timers Whitehaven are limbering up for rugby league's longest domestic road trip as they prepare to face Betfred League One rivals Cornwall in Penryn on Sunday.
Key points
- With stops, the one-way trip is expected to take Whitehaven the best part of 10 hours – roughly the same as the flight time from London to Las Vegas, where Wigan and Warrington showcased Super League last month.
- A proper commitment – Part-time Whitehaven gear up for 470-mile Cornwall trip Part-timers Whitehaven are limbering up for rugby league's longest domestic road trip as they prepare to face Betfred League One rivals Cornwall in Penryn on Sunday.
- The cash-strapped Cumbrians will set off at seven o'clock on Saturday morning on their epic 470-mile journey, via an overnight stay at a hotel in Truro, and expect to return home in the early hours of Monday.
- Starting with a familiar five-mile trawl up the A595 to the edge of Workington, their League One rivals who have already undertaken a slightly shorter journey, Whitehaven's team coach – stocked with extra provisions including an off-the-record amount of beer – will have already chugged for two-and-a-half hours before it makes its first stop to pick up Murray and the club's Lancashire-based players near Wigan.
- Four hundred and eighty-three miles separate Newcastle Falcons and Cornish Pirates, who met twice in rugby union's Championship, while Penzance-based Mount's Bay traipsed 482 miles to Tynedale in 2008 in their single season in National League Two before folding, perhaps unsurprisingly, due to debts.
Who
Anthony Murray; Zenit; Cornwall
When
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Where
Whitehaven; Cornwall; Penryn
Why
Murray told the PA news agency: "It will have a massive impact on the players and staff – we're all part-time so after a late trip back on the Sunday it will be tough not to take Monday off work. "There is considerable cost for each club to go down there, but it's just one of those things if you want to develop the game outside the M62 corridor.
How
The cash-strapped Cumbrians will set off at seven o'clock on Saturday morning on their epic 470-mile journey, via an overnight stay at a hotel in Truro, and expect to return home in the early hours of Monday.
Impact
Murray told the PA news agency: "It will have a massive impact on the players and staff – we're all part-time so after a late trip back on the Sunday it will be tough not to take Monday off work. "There is considerable cost for each club to go down there, but it's just one of those things if you want to develop the game outside the M62 corridor.
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Tough call for Whitehaven; I recall trips that drained our budget too.