FIRST TEAM SQUAD
LAST TIME OUT
2021 MATCHES
Head Coach: Gary Charlton
If they were ever to erect a statue to Cumbrian rugby league
one of the strongest possible candidates to be included would have to be Gary
Charlton.
He became caretaker coach at Workington for part of the 2003
season and then became joint head coach (with Martin Oglanby) from 2009-2013.
In 2019 he took over as head coach at Whitehaven.
Strangely, his playing career started outside Cumbria with a
handful of games for Hull KR and Sheffield in 1988. In 1990 he joined Carlisle
and stayed there until he moved to Whitehaven in 1988. In 2000 he joined Barrow
and then, at the end of 2001 he moved to Workington, ending his playing career
there in 2003.
So, he has coached two Cumbrian clubs and played for all
four!
Star Man: Gregg McNally
A player who has undoubted quality but who has never enamoured himself with Fev fans primarily because of his time at Leigh when there was a great deal of animosity between the clubs both on and off the field and somehow McNally came to symbolise that in the minds of Fev supporters.
Despite that association with Leigh McNally was born in Whitehaven and his career started there in 2008. Before his move to the Centurions in 2012 he also played briefly for Oldham, Barrow and Huddersfield.
At representative level he has played for Cumbria and Ireland.
New Signings for 2021
The Fev connection
There is only one player in either the Whitehaven or Fev squad who has played for both teams and that is Jesse Joe Parker, a Papua New Guinea international, who came to Fev in 2010, the first of our 4 successive Championship topping years. He only played 14 games for Rovers but scored 17 tries.
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