And with one eye on the Super League franchise, a win in a major cup competition would be amassive boost to Barrow's hopes of attracting interest from the Rugby Football League come 2012.
The Chicago Blackhawks followed a similar path to a Stanley Cup by building through the draft, but underwent amassive overhaul this summer as aggressive spending led to a salary cap crunch.
Mashaba was fired one day before the start of the African Cup of Nations finals last month, precipitating amassive collapse in the fortunes of the country's team at an embarrassing time in their bid to win the right to host the 2010 World Cup.
As a World Cup winner in 1999, Burke arrived on Tyneside with amassive reputation, and says he worked extra hard to prove he was here for sporting rather than financial reasons.