For this series we invite all fans to tell of humorous situations or stories that they have seen or heard while watching or following Workington Town. If you have a story to tell then e-mail us at town.tales@workington-town.net. We can withhold the names of the innocent (or guilty) at anyone's request and we will guarantee anonymity at all times.

We start this feature with a tale about travelling to an away match. I'm sure that many Town fans have been in similar situations when travelling on organised trips.

"We've never been this way before..."
Two certain gentlemen have followed Workington Town for many more years than I could hazard a guess. They have held positions within the Town supporters club over the years and have organised and run numerous coaches to Town's away matches.

These two unnamed stalwarts of Workington Town can been seen at every home game, all the away games and are believed to be members of the infamous training pitch twitchers who can be seen in their natural habitat on training nights behind the posts on the Town training pitch.

During travel away to matches they are always found on the front seat of the coach. This allows them to see where they are going and enables the to observe all road signs and a clear view of all local landmarks. The front seat ensures that they are first off the bus at service stations and first off the bus at their final destination. This position also allows them to relay instructions to the driver.

Before every away match these two gentlemen have been supplied with directions provided from several sources (Club programmes and faxes from the clubs we are playing). They don't really need these directions as they have visited every club on so many occasions that they could find the way to the ground easily.

These two gentlemen armed with the directions and the combined knowledge that they have build-up over the years mean that we should never ever get lost or fail to find a Rugby League ground.

Who am I trying to kid! The amount of times that we have got lost on our way to an away fixture are unreal. "I thought you knew where the ground was?" is the normal question fired at our navigators. Their reply is "It's not our fault, we've never been this way before!"

Even with the days of global positioning systems I believe that these two could get anyone lost. I withhold their names and will call them Waldorf and Statler, but have a pictures of these culprits and issue a warning: if you are travelling to an away match and the first people you see when you get on to the bus are...

ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO GET TO THE MATCH, BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT.