EVERYONE is excited about the Worsley Cup final on Sunday but we have to focus on our league game against Haslingden tomorrow first.

We beat them earlier in the season and hopefully we can do it again because there are only seven games left and we need to win as many as we can.

It would be great to win the league again and it would be vindication for all the hard work the committee and members do for the club. They work tremendously hard and their forward thinking has been one reason why we have been so successful.

Some have helped us out financially and found sponsorship. It's all part of the success, it's not just the team who make the club successful.

We have had some very good pros in the last couple of years too. We had a mighty contribution from Adam Dale last year and an even mightier one from Shaun Young this year.

You need to have a good pro but that in itself won't win you the league. You need to have 10 other players pulling together.

We have had a chat to Shaun about coming back next year. We want him to come back and I think he would like to come back but we will wait until after the Worsley Cup before we talk about it some more.

We are not worrying about it at the moment. We have better things to think about really.

Shaun has had such a good season with us it wouldn't surprise me if he got offers from a county side. He is a fine first class cricketer and it looks like he could get his own double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets this season.

With seven games to go, Shaun has probably achieved what we hoped he would in terms of averages this season.

He will totally surpass our expectations by the end of the season I am sure.

But as pro we'd say that is not important, the important thing is the team doing well.

People at the club are talking about the double. We haven't done it since 1923 but we are taking it one match at time.

We are one game away from one trophy and seven away from another, but we could end up second in both so we are not getting carried away.

We are looking forward to the Worsley Cup a great deal and it is good for the club that we are playing at home. It is a great chance to make some money.

I don't think it is an advantage other than for that reason. In playing terms, it is not an advantage and we get some of the biggest crowds in the league so even if the game had been at Ramsbottom, I'm sure we still would have had plenty of support.