So we find ourselves in sixth place with seventh placed Penrith the visitors for our second home game of the season.
Such is the make-up of N3N this season that the Cumbrians are just about our second closest rivals after Mowden Park.
They have lost two games but have run in eleven tries managing three bonus points to our nil. In a tight league those bonus points might count for a lot come April 2012 so it would be nice to start acquiring some - preferably for scoring four tries or more.
Winning is the most important thing and it will be another tough task against the boys from across the A66. They include Anth Carr's brother Glenn in the front row, however our former skipper will have to be content with a place on the bench as his work commitments are hindering his training at the moment.
Tom Dixon is also still away so Chocky and Gareth Eddy continue in the second row. Danny Boatman does return, after missing last week's epic win at Burnage following the birth of his son who is expected to make his own Brinkburn debut on Saturday.
Dan was replaced by Liam Bailey who moves back to hooker in place of Andrew Dixon who is unavailable. Incidentally, the former County skipper rates the Burnage front row as the strongest he has ever played against which gives even more credit to the sterling efforts of last week.
The last ditch hero was Stu Waites who slotted an injury time conversion from the touchline to take the four points. He'll be at full back again in a back division which is unchanged.
WEST: 15 Stu Waites 14 Scott Butcher 13 Luke Watson 12 Gavin Robinson 11 Andrew Cheslin 10 Gareth Foreman 9 Andrew Foreman 1 Adam Coates 2 Liam Bailey 3 Jon Norris 4 Andrew Davies 5 Gareth Eddy 6 Dan Boatman [Capt] 7 Michael Taylor 8 Stephen Stockdale 16 Anth Carr [fr] 17 Dave Garside 18 Colin Cheslin
Penrith: 15 Ed Swale 14 Jon Fell 13 Mike Hawley 12 James Ellar 11 Phil Fell 10 Steve Wood 9 Paul Newton 1 Glenn Carr 2 James Thornton 3 Craig Rumney 4 Rob Dawson 5 Nick Benson 6 Billy Barton 7 Gary Hodgson 8 Mike Raine (Capt) 16 Gavin Young [fr] 17 Craig Price 18 Mike Stephens