Assistant coach Craig McDowell apologised to Workington Town's fans after his side threw away a half-time lead to go under at London Skolars.

After the clash, which they lost 34-32, McDowell said: “It really was a game of two halves.

“I feel awful for our fans who have made the long trip down. We are very deflated and very disheartened.

“There are a lot of players in the dressing room who are looking at themselves, thinking they have let themselves and their team-mates down.

“We were ahead 26-10 at half-time but we were not overly happy. I don’t think we felt we had the game won at half-time.

“We were very flat and very disorganised we didn’t respect London enough.”

He added: “Looking around our dressing room, a number of players play at a very high level and maybe higher.

“But it was just not good enough.

“We are gutted as a team [but now] we have two very big games coming up. If we can’t fire up ourselves for the Leeds game in the Challenge Cup [on Friday] and the home game against Haven a week after that [on Good Friday], then nothing will.”