Oldham reveal prices for 2015

DESPITE soaring expenditure on players, Oldham RL Club are selling 2015 season tickets at the best discounts in years.

Compared with match-day prices, up by £1 for adults and concessions, season-ticket fans can save up to £29 across 11 home games in the new Kingstone Press League One.

Fans buying a seat for the season before December 23 (£125) will effectively pay for only nine of the 11 games at Whitebank against new club Coventry Bears, London Skolars, Gloucester All Golds, Gateshead Thunder, North Wales Crusaders, Oxford, York City Knights, Rochdale Hornets, Keighley Cougars, Barrow Raiders and Swinton Lions between April 12 and September 6.

Season tickets for standing fans (£110) work out at the equivalent of just short of two free games.

Since the end of last season, Roughyeds have signed, or re-signed on new deals, 17 players, including some who were on full-time contracts at other clubs last season. More signings are still to come.

The inclusion, in a restructured third tier, of five clubs who were in the Championship last season has inevitably raised the bar on player expectations and demands.

Oldham chairman Chris Hamilton: “In putting together a good squad which we believe will be up there challenging, we are battling against ever-increasing costs..

“It has to be a balancing act when it comes to what we can spend and what we can reasonably recoup at the turnstiles, but we have tried to keep things in perspective by putting up turnstile prices by only £1 and offering season-ticket discounts which are significantly better than in previous years.

“We are still one of the cheapest clubs in the division.”