Workington Town head coach Phil Veivers has said that Town is a good place to be after his side recorded their fourth win in a row with a 30-12 victory over Batley Bulldogs.

Town went into the Super 8s on the back of three consecutive victories and picked up where they left off after a weekend off with their latest win.

The result increased the gap between Town, in fourth place on 17 points, and both the Bulldogs and West Cumbrian rivals Whitehaven, who sit on 14 points each.

“Workington is a good place to be at the moment, the players are coming to training with a smile on their face and they are playing with a smile on their face,” the Aussie said.

“Last year we had the third best defence in the league, and the way we have leaked points has been very frustrating.

“But you can see the players are working very hard for each other now.

“There was a break on Sunday when [Scott] Leatherbarrow went through and we had nine defenders making covering tackles.

“The penny is starting to drop.

“It seems we are taking a similar path to last year when we won seven in a row and finished winning nine of our last 11 games.

“There’s a possibility of a win every week, and we just have to focus on our shortfalls.”

Although Veivers admitted that conceding 12 points was somewhat of an acceptable amount to let in, he was frustrated by the manner in which Batley added to the scoresheet on Sunday afternoon.

“A shortfall from the weekend is that we let them score 12 points, you always strive for a zero,” he continued.

“At the start of the year we set targets defensively as to what we thought would be acceptable in conceding, and 12 is within that range.

“But when you look at how they scored their tries, that’s the frustrating thing.

“One of their tries came off the back of something we identified in the preview tape.

“It’s about being in the right frame of mind and concentrating for every play in a game.

“I thought we were a bit sloppy for a 15 minute spell in that second half, but across the 80 minutes I thought it was an accomplished performance.”