WHITEHAVEN coach James Newton hopes some downtime will help his side carry on moving up the table. The Cumbrians were 17th when he stepped up from assistant to succeed Anthony Murray in March. Those 15 games have yielded 15 points, with the last three, at home to Swinton and Goole, then at Hunslet, all won. “In that phase, our last-tackle options weren’t where they needed to be, so that’s something we have to work on. “Credit Hunslet, they kept going and had a real go, but I thought our defensive resilience meant we deserved to win the game.