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History-making match official Tara Jones has told ITV news of the “special” moment she was handed the match ball by a young Oldham fan on a ground-breaking day at Boundary Park.
Date Published 19/04/2024
Oldham RL managing director Mike Ford has challenged the club’s core fan base to “bring one more person” each as attendances to watch Sean Long’s exciting table-toppers continue...
Date Published 15/04/2024
Roughyeds' club historian Mike Turner has confirmed that Cian Tyrer’s four tries in the club’s 46-10 win against Cornwall, following his post-war club record-equalling six at...
Date Published 14/04/2024
Boundary Park will host a moment of history on Sunday when Tara Jones becomes the first woman to referee a senior professional rugby league game in the northern hemisphere.
Date Published 10/04/2024
Girls rugby league in Oldham has been given a major boost after Oldham Rugby League Community Trust gained vital funding from Sport England.
Date Published 09/04/2024
Cian Tyrer praised his team-mates after producing the most devastating individual performance from an Oldham player in 64 years, with six tries in a 62-0 win at Hunslet that sent...
Sean Long hailed his side’s most professional performance of the season as Cian Tyrer’s six tries fired Oldham top of the table in a 62-0 win at Hunslet.
Date Published 08/04/2024
Oldham recorded their biggest victory of the year in front of the largest home league crowd since 2008, to thrash rivals Rochdale 54-6 at Boundary Park.
Date Published 02/04/2024
Ahead of today's (Easter Sunday) game against neighbours Rochdale, Roughyeds boss Sean Long has made two changes to the squad which travelled to Workington Town.
Date Published 30/03/2024
Oldham can be rugby league’s great entertainers again, with the current squad inspired to match the club’s off-field ambitions with some stellar performances on it, starting with...
Date Published 26/03/2024
Oldham RLFC and Salford Red Devils have confirmed a dual-registration partnership for the 2024 season.
Date Published 22/03/2024
The Roughyeds' first Boundary Park game in Betfred League One, the derby clash with Rochdale Hornets on Easter Sunday (3pm, March 31), will be televised live on The Sportsman...
Date Published 18/03/2024
Head coach Sean Long praised Oldham’s “vigour and intent” after the Roughyeds opened the Betfred League One season with a thumping 48-10 win at Workington.
Boundary Park will rock to the tune of thousands of Oldham sports fans over the Easter weekend, there to watch local sporting action on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and finally...
Date Published 13/03/2024
Roughyeds head coach Sean Long says he and his squad will thrive on the “outside noise” surrounding their League One promotion bid.
Date Published 11/03/2024
Oldham captain Jordan Turner has revealed that joining his hometown club means more than anything he has experienced in an illustrious career, and is urging Roughyeds fans to join...
Date Published 10/03/2024
Roary, Oldham Roughyeds' popular mascot, was joined by Dave Thomas (Yeds) when the club's hard-working Supporters’ Group went to a Higginshaw youth section training session to...
Date Published 07/03/2024
The Roughyeds have announced the details of an upcoming dinner event which will focus on the past, present and future of Oldham Rugby.
Date Published 05/03/2024
Oldham can concentrate entirely on their priority target this season - promotion from Betfred League One - after a 46-12 defeat at York in the quarter-final of the AB Sundecks...
Date Published 04/03/2024
Former Oldham RLFC winger John Etty has died in a Blackpool hospital at the age of 97.
Date Published 02/03/2024
Roughyeds' Ben O’Keefe has never had trouble scoring tries - he’s got the pace and the built-in ability to read a game sufficiently to be in the right place at the right time.
Date Published 25/02/2024
Several ball handling errors proved to be Oldham’s downfall as they fell to their first defeat under boss Sean Long, as Swinton progressed to the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.
He was born in the Emerald Isle, he speaks with an accent that’s as Irish as the Ring of Kerry, and although most Oldhamers in the Broadway Suite at Boundary Park struggled to...
Date Published 21/02/2024
Oldham Roughyeds are looking to progress to the Challenge Cup fifth round for the first time in six years with a win against Swinton Lions this weekend.
Former Oldham RL player-coach Bill Francis, who was in charge of the team under the overall control of team manager Graham Starkey in the 1979-80 season and the first part of...
Roughyeds secured qualification to the quarter-finals of the 1895 Cup, thanks to a rip-roaring first half performance where Oldham ran in five tries to Rochdale’s nil.
Date Published 18/02/2024
Battling Oldham progressed to the fourth round of the Challenge Cup as they edged past Barrow Raiders thanks to a strong second-half showing.
Date Published 10/02/2024
Roughyeds head to Barrow tomorrow (Saturday) in search for another upset in the Challenge Cup third round when the two sides kick off at 12:30pm.
Date Published 08/02/2024
A much-changed Oldham side held Super League side London Broncos to an 18-18 draw at Boundary Park.
Date Published 02/02/2024
London Broncos come to Boundary Park on Sunday (3pm) on top of the world after getting back into Super League and having coach Mike Eccles named as one of five personalities of...
Date Published 01/02/2024
Roughyeds hit the ground running as they got their 2024 season underway with a 24-20 win against 1895 Cup holders Halifax Panthers.
Date Published 26/01/2024
Roughyeds boss Sean Long is not letting Sunday’s Law Cup cancellation disrupt his preparations for the Halifax game this weekend.
Date Published 23/01/2024
The ‘match off’ decision relative to Oldham’s game at Rochdale for the Law Cup was a bitter disappointment for everyone in the Roughyeds ‘camp, not least coach Sean Long and his...
Date Published 20/01/2024
Jamie Ellis comes into Roughyeds' boss Sean Long’s squad for tomorrow’s (Sunday) Law Cup clash against Rochdale Hornets (3pm kick off).
Trialist winger Cian Tyrer's reward of a one-year contract at Oldham RL Club makes it a family affair for the Tyrers, given that Cian's cousin Keiran Tyrer is also under contract...
Date Published 17/01/2024
As the start of Oldham Rugby League Club’s exciting new 2024 season gets ever nearer - even the RFL say the Roughyeds are favourites to win Betfred League One - the club's...
Date Published 08/01/2024
Malcolm Price, one of the few players ever to double-up as a British Lion at rugby union and as a Great Britain rugby league centre, has died at the age of 86.
Date Published 05/01/2024
After a short break following their impressive 46-10 win in a friendly at Keighley on Boxing Day, Oldham Rugby League Club’s stars report back for training this coming Thursday,...
Date Published 28/12/2023
Sean Long's Roughyeds, using a 25-man squad that included 16 debutants, got off to a highly encouraging start with a 46-10 trouncing of Keighley Cougars in a pre-season warm-up...
Date Published 26/12/2023
Roughyeds boss Sean Long has named a 25-man squad to take on Keighley Cougars later today (Boxing Day, 1pm kick off).
Date Published 24/12/2023
Bill Quinn, chairman of born-again Oldham Rugby League Club, has told fans that the new board is on target in all areas of growth and ahead of target in many of them.
Sean Long, new head coach of born-again Oldham Rugby League Club, has named ten new signings in his first 17 squad numbers, including young former Wigan Warriors utility back...
Date Published 19/12/2023
Season tickets for the Roughyeds went on sale on Thursday (14th) and the interest shown by the Oldham public has been fantastic.
Date Published 18/12/2023
Jordan Turner (34), one of many new signings, will captain new-look Oldham, his home-town club, in the 2024 Betfred League One season when rejuvenated Roughyeds will be going flat...
Date Published 14/12/2023
Warm-hearted players, coaches and parents connected with the Saddleworth Rangers under-eights rugby squad helped to brighten up Christmas for local families.
Date Published 07/12/2023
A final at Wembley on Saturday, June 8 next year is the ultimate prize for Rugby League clubs outside Super League which compete in the 1895 Cup.
Date Published 04/12/2023
Oldham RLFC will kick off their 2024 League One campaign with an away trip to Workington Town on March 17 (3pm kick-off).
Simon Winnard from Royton has left the new board of Oldham Rugby League Club for ‘personal reasons’.
Date Published 25/11/2023
Oldham RL Club have a new backroom staff following the departures of strength and conditioner Dan Bedford, physio Lee Cholmondeley and statistician Lee Thomas.
New-look Oldham will play derby rivals Rochdale Hornets for the pre-season Law Cup at Rochdale’s Crown Oil Arena on Sunday, January 21 (kick-off 3pm).
Date Published 23/11/2023
Rugby League legend, Oldham's very own Kevin Sinfield OBE, is set to pull on his running trainers again after launching a new epic challenge to raise awareness and funds to...
Date Published 08/11/2023
Talk-of the-town Oldham RLFC, who are planning to hit Super League in three or four years, have appointed former England Women’s international Beth Sutcliffe (41) to lead...
League One big-hitters Oldham, who have taken their 2024 squad numbers to 26 with the signings of Featherstone forwards Elijah Taylor and Matty Wildie, are to stage a fans’ forum...
Date Published 06/11/2023
Oldham Roughyeds have completed a major piece of recruitment after signing former New Zealand forward Elijah Taylor on a two-year deal.
Date Published 03/11/2023
Mike Ford, once a star player, now the 57-year-old managing director of Oldham Rugby League Club 1876 Ltd, has agreed that he hand-picked most of the club’s many new...
Date Published 30/10/2023
Oldham Rugby League Club, who are rapidly becoming the talk of the town, have signed two more young players - half-back Kieran Tyrer (21) from Wigan Warriors and utility back...
Kieran Tyrer will return to play for Roughyeds in 2024 on a permanent basis, after he signed a one-year deal.
Date Published 27/10/2023
Sean Long is Oldham Roughyeds' new head coach, after signing a three-year deal.
Date Published 25/10/2023
Roughyeds have completed the signing of Jumah Sambou on a two-year deal.
Date Published 24/10/2023
Ambitious Oldham Rugby League Club has taken its number of new signings for 2024 to 13 with the capture on a two-year deal of 36-year-old Featherstone Rovers prop Craig Kopczak,...
Date Published 23/10/2023
The latest young Rugby League star to join big-spending Oldham is 18-year-old hooker Bailey Aldridge from Leeds Rhinos.
Date Published 21/10/2023
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