Oldham check on Langtree

Photo: Dave Murgatroyd

MILESTONE: Liam Thompson (right) in his 100th game for Oldham

DANNY Langtree, forced off by an arm injury in each of Oldham RL Club's last two games, will be assessed at training tomorrow night.

"He's got a bicep problem," confirmed coach Scott Naylor.

He had to walk off near the end of the Toulouse game, but he lasted less than half an hour of the Featherstone match.

Liam Thompson (sternum) was also in the wars during the Roughyeds' 32-14 defeat at Bower Fold by Featherstone Rovers, who sealed their place in the Middle 8s with a couple of regular Championship games still to go.

Nine injured players - Scott Turner, Scott Leatherbarrow, Phil Joy, Adam Neal, Jack Spencer, Richard Lepori, Gareth Owen, Danny Grimshaw and Craig Briscoe - were in the stand watching the game, plus Sammy Gee, who was serving a one-match ban.

Gee will be available for Sunday's game away at Sheffield Eagles, and Naylor hopes some of the walking wounded might also be fit in time.

Despite defeat, Roughyeds stay third bottom, ahead of Bradford Bulls and Swinton Lions.

New boys Matty Wilkinson and Sadiq Adebiyi and George Tyson scored Roughyeds tries, while David Hewitt landed one conversion.

Featherstone scored six tries - three of them in a ten-minute spell in the first half.

"They're a good side, but without that little first-half bad spell we would have run them close," said Oldham's man-of-the-match award winner Luke Adamson.

Only Rochdale, of the bottom six, won. They beat Swinton 33-28 at the Crown Oil Arena, ahead of their eagerly-awaited derby clash with Oldham at Bower Fold the last game of the regular season - on Sunday, July 23.

By losing their last four games, Toulouse have dropped out of the top four, creating a distinct possibility that they will figure in the bottom-eight Shield fixtures, to be played in August and September.