Rugby League: Pete Carey back as Scott Naylor’s right-hand man at Oldham Roughyeds
Date published: 05 October 2017
Pete Carey will again be by Scott Naylor's side next season as the coaching double-act strive to steer Oldham out of Kingstone Press League One and back to the Championship at the first time of asking.
Carey, 49, has re-signed for a third year as Naylor's assistant, having joined Oldham prior to the start of their two-year stay in the sport's second tier.
Naylor has welcomed Carye's decision to stick with the club in another show of solidarity and stability.
He said: "Pete is not afraid to question things or to air his views and opinions. I like that. It brings a lot to the club.
"He can be as serious as the next man when he has to be, but he can also be very funny. He is great in the dressing room, always taking the mickey out of the lads. It is good to see.
"He is a very good assistant who does anything asked of him and I am delighted he is staying.
"He has had plenty of experience in coaching at Salford (various age groups) and I know he really enjoys working at Oldham with the lads, myself and the others in the backroom team."
Reflecting on last season and looking ahead to 2018, Carey said no one could blame relegation on a lack of effort from anyone in the training, coaching or playing squads.
The main reason, he said, was an unprecedented run of serious and season-ending injuries which robbed the club of many of its senior players for the last 12 games or so.
He added: "We could have played better in some games, while there were also times when we did not finish teams off after we had done all the hard work.
"The number and severity of injuries did not help one little bit. We can not change the past, but we can help to shape the future and it is good to see how most of the lads have responded to their disappointments. That says a lot about them.
"Their unity and desire to stick together bodes well for Scott and I and for our plans for next season. If the lads are all in it with us we are half way there.
"They want to be playing at the highest level they can, and as coaches we are no different, we want to be coaching at the highest level we can too."
