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Maloney returns

FORMER Super League stalwart Francis Maloney has joined the Roughyeds backroom team in a player-mentor role.

He will work alongside reserve-team coach John Hough to give the club’s younger players the benefit of his vast experience gained over 20 years as a pro, many of them at the sport’s highest level in Super League.

A goalkicking stand-off with more than 350 senior games behind him (176 of them in Super League), 36-year-old “Franny” played for Leeds,

Date published: 19/03/2010

Injured Gillam set for hospital scan

ROUGHYEDS winger John Gillam is to have a scan on the shoulder he damaged in a Northern Rail Cup tie against his former club Hornets at Sedgley Park more than five weeks ago.

He made a comeback in the Reserve team at Keighley on March 4 only to suffer a recurrence of the injury.

“I’m just bitterly disappointed and frustrated,” said the former Oldham...

Date published: 18/03/2010

Roughyeds bite into Holland’s sponsor deal

OLDHAM Roughyeds have landed a season-long shirt-sleeve sponsorship deal with Holland’s Pies.

The Baxenden-based company was Burnley Football Club’s major kit sponsor for three years until last year, but it’s 2010 partnership with the Roughyeds breaks new ground in Rugby League.

Club and company did a one-off link-up for the Roughyeds’ opening...

Date published: 17/03/2010

Sutton back on board

OLDHAM boss Tony Benson has pulled big prop Luke Sutton back into the Roughyeds’ fold in the firm belief that the former Keighley front-rower’s best days lie ahead of him.

Rochdale-based Sutton joined Roughyeds originally half way through the 2008 season when Steve Deakin was coach. He made six senior appearances that year and then signed again for 2009 only to...

Date published: 16/03/2010

Praise for Roughyeds fans

ROUGHYEDS coach Tony Benson paid tribute to the travelling fans who cheered his side on during the 29-16 defeat of Co-operative Championship One title favourites Hunslet.

“The support was phenomenal,” said Benson, after a second successive league win put Oldham top of the table.

“The whole stand was Oldham and they were loud and fantastic....

Date published: 15/03/2010

Heroic Ashe fires up super Oldham

TAKE THAT... a pincer movement spells pain for Oldham’s Marcus St Hilaire. Pictures by GRAHAM LYNCH

HUNSLET 16, OLDHAM 29

TONY BENSON paid tribute to his side’s powers of determination following the superb defeat of the Co-operative Champion-ship One favourites.

Despite...

Date published: 15/03/2010

L’Anson in at the deep end

NEW signing Jamie I’Anson goes straight into a 20-man Oldham squad for tonight’s Championship 1 clash with Hunslet Hawks at the South Leeds Stadium (8.00pm kick off).

Coach Tony Benson is keeping his proposed line-up under wraps but is happy enough with I’Anson’s fitness and mental preparation to include him in the 20 even though he hasn’t played for six months.

Ian...

Date published: 12/03/2010

Roughyeds in high spirits

IMPROVING Roughyeds head into their second Hunslet test of the season tonight in confident mood.

The heavy defeat of Welsh amateurs Blackwood Bulldogs 80–6 in the third round of the Challenge Cup last week followed up a pair of excellent efforts at the club’s temporary ‘home’ of Sedgley Park RUFC.

First, Tony Benson’s side went so close to...

Date published: 12/03/2010

THE CONTENDERS

LUCAS Onyango: bookies’ joint favourite to finish Championship One's top scorer. Matthew Chambers

Chronicle Sport’s guide to Oldham’s rivals this season

HUNSLET: Have recruited an enormous squad and the task for player-coach David March — a key figure on as well as...

Date published: 12/03/2010

I’Anson back in Roughyeds fold

JAMIE I’ANSON is back with the Roughyeds — and is fighting fit for a place in the squad to play at Hunslet.

The 22-year-old former Leeds Rhinos prospect, who left the sport in order to become a professional cage fighter, has agreed to a deal which runs until the end of the season after being peppered with phone calls from Tony Benson.

The Roughyeds coach...

Date published: 11/03/2010

Kerr cleared to face Hunslet

WAYNE KERR, Oldham RL Club’s Irish international prop, is free to play in the Roughyeds’ Co-operative Championship 1 game at Hunslet Hawks on Friday night (8pm) after escaping suspension at a meeting of the RFL disciplinary committee in Leeds.

But Mark Brocklehurst will miss the game after receiving a one-match ban for his part in a free-for-all near the end of...

Date published: 10/03/2010

Cup luck deserts Roughyeds again

ROUGHYEDS chief Chris Hamilton has bemoaned Oldham’s awful luck in Challenge Cup draws following last night’s pairings for the 2010 Carnegie competition which send Tony Benson’s men to Hunslet Hawks in round four.

Of the last 11 occasions that Oldham have been in the hat for the third round, it will be the eighth time they have been drawn away - and they...

Date published: 09/03/2010

Benson’s delight at ‘good day’ for Oldham

ROUGHYEDS coach Tony Benson was a happy man after a record-breaking performance from his team in the Carnegie Challenge Cup.

Welsh side Blackwood Bulldogs were blown away 80-6 at Sedgley Park, Oldham running home 15 tries to land a place in round four of the competition. Match report on Page 32.

The Roughyeds coach (pictured above) was pleased not only with his...

Date published: 08/03/2010

Bulldogs savaged by 15-try Roughyeds

SO SIMPLE . . . Paul O’Connor is unchallenged as he touches down in the corner.

OLDHAM 80, BLACKWOOD BULLDOGS 6

OLDHAM scored at a rate of a point a minute as they defeated Welsh amateur side Blackwood Bulldogs 80-6 in the third round of the Carnegie Challenge Cup...

Date published: 08/03/2010

Flare-up five facing threat of suspension

FIVE players - two from Oldham and three from Swinton - will go before the Rugby League disciplinary committee on Tuesday following the last-minute flare-up that marred the Roughyeds’ superb 38–20 win at Sedgley Park last Sunday.

Oldham’s Wayne Kerr and Mark Brocklehurst and Swinton’s Ian Watson, Aaron Smith and Neil Rigby will all be charged with...

Date published: 05/03/2010

Roughyeds are on their guard

Tony Benson: Taking nothing for granted when the Roughyeds take on Blackwood Bulldogs.

TONY BENSON refuses to take Blackwood Bulldogs lightly when they visit Sedgley Park RUFC on Sunday (3pm kick-off).

The Roughyeds coach is set to field a no-nonsense line-up as he bids...

Date published: 05/03/2010

Roughyeds avoid winding-up move

Chris Hamilton: Ongoing battle to put the Roughyeds on an even keel.

A “SUBSTANTIAL” payment has been made by Oldham Roughyeds to fend off the latest winding-up petition against the club.

Registrar Barber formally dismissed winding-up moves...

Date published: 04/03/2010

Roughyeds agree new sponsor deal

OLDHAM Roughyeds have announced a major kit sponsorship deal with Worthington’s Ale and the Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) Ltd.

Newly-designed jerseys featuring the well-known Worthington’s branding were worn for the first time by the team in the 38-20 Co-operative Championship One win at Swinton at the weekend and the tie-up has been hailed by club chairman...

Date published: 03/03/2010

Graves cuts ties with Roughyeds

LONDONER Jack Graves has left Oldham Roughyeds to move back to the capital.

The 21-year-old back-row forward came to the club in the close season from Harlequins but has since found it difficult to settle in the north.

After featuring in a couple of pre-season games with the Roughyeds, Graves was not handed a squad number when coach Tony Benson named his 25-strong...

Date published: 02/03/2010

Oldham confirm cup-tie venue

OLDHAM Roughyeds will be back at Sedgley Park for their Carnegie Challenge Cup third round tie against Blackwood Bulldogs, the club have confirmed.

The ‘home’ game against the Welsh amateur outfit will take place on Sunday, (3pm kick-off) at the same Whitefield venue that the Oldham club have used twice already this season, as officials continue in their...

Date published: 01/03/2010

Flying start for gritty Roughyeds

SWINTON 20, OLDHAM 38

AN EXCELLENT all-round display at home-from-home Sedgley Park saw Oldham Roughyeds start their Co-operative Championship One season with a bang.

Seven tries – three from winger Lucas Onyango – and five Matty Ashe goals provided the points for Tony Benson’s side, who also had a pair of tries disallowed against a Swinton side full...

Date published: 01/03/2010

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