PRIDE and disappointment were the overriding emotions for head of rugby Rhys Morgan last weekend after his Ilkley side had completed an unusual double.

They drew their league match 14-14 at home to Sheffield but then played 20 minutes of extra-time and lost their Yorkshire Cup quarter-final 17-14 against the same opposition.

"When we were 14-0 down and they won a scrum and sprinted down the middle of the pitch before we received a yellow card, we could have been looking at a cricket score if we were not careful," confessed Morgan.

"But we pulled it back to 14-14, and in the last 15 minutes we were twice on the wrong end of decisions by the referee when we were heading for a try – firstly when they kicked the ball out of the back of a scrum and secondly when we got a driving maul going.

"Sheffield also got away without a yellow card when we had received a yellow card for the same offence earlier in the game.

"I was proud of the way that we fought and it would have been nice to have had a go at someone like Hull Ionians in the semi-finals.

"But then again I don't know if we have the strength in depth in our squad to cope, and we still have nine league matches to play."

Ilkley's line-out didn't function as well as it might but Morgan said that there were very good reasons for that.

He said: "We have had four different hookers this season and any number of different combinations in the front row, because of rotation, and the second row.

"It isn't surprising that it isn't functioning well but we have been working on a Plan C for Saturday's derby at Cleckheaton.

"If you would have asked me at the start of 2016 if I would have taken three wins and a draw from our first four league matches, I would have said yes.

"But we are not taking Cleckheaton for granted. They have shown better form of late and we know that if we switch off they can hurt us, as they did when we met them in October at our place when they scored two tries in the second half."