C L U B O F F I C I A L S Roll of Honour Chairman; M.G. White Championship Winners; 1926/27, 1927/28, 1930/31, 1934/35 Directors: C.H. Eaves, T. Robinson Runners up: 1924/25, 1932/33 War League beaten finalists; 139/40 Chief Executive: Tony Barrow Division One Champions: 1962/63, 1963/64 Commercial Manager: Peter Young Division Two Champions: 1984/85 Division Two Runners-Up: 1996/97 Promotions Manager: Chailenge Cup Winners: 1899/1900, 1925/26, 1927/28 Stephen Walmsiey Runners-Up; 1926/27, 1931,32 Coach: Mike Gregory Lancashire League Winners: 1924/25, 1927/28, 1928/29, 1930/31, 1960/61 Development Officer: John Prince Lancashire War League Winners: 1939/40 Lancashire Cup Winners: Physiotherapist: Norman Brown 1925/26, 1927/28, 1939/40, 1969/70 Assistant Physiotherapists: Runners-Up: 1910/11, 1923/24, 1931/32, 1960/61, 1961/62, 1962/63, 1964/65, 1972/73 C. Robinson, B.B.C. Floodiight Trophy Runners-Up: 1966/67 Club Doctor; Dr. M.A. Moore Western Division Championship Beaten Finaiists: 1963/64 Kit Team: Andy, Eric, Division Two Premiership Winners: 1986/87 Timekeeper: B. Welsby Head Groundsman: Michael Curtis Club Records Assistant Groundsman: Paul Euston Record Attendance: 44,621 Wigan vWarrington 7/4/51 Record Score For: 90-0 VPrescot Panthers 11.8.96 Offices: Record Score Against 0-78 vWigan 29/9/92 Bury Football Club, Tries in game: 6Mark Riley vPrescot Panthers 11.8.96 Gigg Lane, 5W. Wallwork vWidnes 15/12/1900, 5J. Evans vBradford Northern 30/9/1922, Bury, 5H.Halsall vSt. Helens 24/1/1925, BL9 9HR. 5R. Cracknell vWhitehaven Rec. 11/2/1928, 5R. Lewis vKeighley 12/1/1946, Tel 0161 761 2328 5J. Stopford VBramley 22/12/1962, F a x 0 1 6 1 7 6 3 9 1 9 6 5A. Buckley vSalford 8/4/1964, 5J. Ropati VNottingham 21/1/1990 World Record Kick: Martin Hodgson 77V. yards (for Swinfon) April 13fh 1940, at Rochdale. Club Shop -Lottery -Promotions Coals in agame: Marlene Partington 12 K. Gowers vLiverpool City 3/10/1957 Points in agame: 112 Station Rd, Swinton. 30 Greg Pearce vPrescot Panthers 11.8.96 Tel 0161 794 6150 Tries in aseason: 42 J.Stopford 1964/65 Goals in aseason: 128 A. Blan 1960/61 F a x 0 1 6 1 7 2 8 6 1 7 4 Points in aseason: 283 A. Blan 1960/61 Tries in acareer: 197 F.Evans 1921 to 1931 Goals in acareer: 970 K. Cowers 1954 to 1973 Points in acareer: 2015 K. Gowers 1954 to 1973 Programme Editor: Peter Young Appearances in acareer: 594 -8sub. KGowers 1954 to 1973 Consecutive Club appearances: The club gratefully acknowledge 150 R. Fleay. August 1972 contributions from Mike Caine, Ian Rigg, John Spellman, Steve Wild, O F F I C I A L S & Vinny Kirkman, Martin Kelner, John Edwards. HONOURS
2SWINTONLIONS THE CHAIRMAN Awarm welcome to today's game, season and now Ihope that the fans will back the if the first home game of anew t e a m a n d t h e c l u b . Jseason and anew millennium. Obviously our aim is to achieve entry to Super Welcome to all our supporters and League and we need the fans to back us. It would to the directors, players and be pointless to achieve the ambition and then be supporters of Oldham RLFC. turned down on the grounds that we could not Having added Chris Highton, Jon attract sufficient support to sustain aSuper League Neill, Phil Coussons and Paul place. To our supporters -if you are about the Loughlin, with the welcome return of Matty club, if you want us to be successful, if you want Knowles, Jason Roach and Ian Pickavance to our us to retain our own identity, then please get retained squad Iam both hopeful and confident behind us both on and off the field. that we will have ateam which will compete at This year is very important for Swinton Lions and, the highest level of the Northern Ford Premiership. the way things are going, very important for all With Mike Gregory in charge Iam also confident Premiership clubs and rugby league in general. that the team will be successful in an entertaining Ithink it will be an exciting season and hope you way. Ithink Mike would accept that the board all enjoy yourselves in the Lions Den. have backed him in his rebuilding for this coming M a l c o l m W h i t e Darby DIass (N.W.) ltd Major sunriiers of Double Glaied units to the Tirado aPubic teadod Dosign aG ian eftect aspedaltv
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4SWINTONL.IONS This afternoon Iextend a course Ihave played Pickavance and Coussons w a r m w e l c o m e t o M i k e against him many times. and Ifeel we now have a Ford and his Oldham Fordy is still afine player squad to compete in all team. played in the same and he is an integral part games and push for hon- Great of this new Oldham side. ours, Because of holiday i l k B r i t a i n Oldham have completely deadlines these notes were team reshaped since last season written before our opening as with some intelligent sign¬ game at Workington so I
[■ Mike ings, at least five of which just hope the team got and have followed Mike from reward for all the hard of his previous club Bramley. work and dedication they It is my guess they will be have shown in pre season amuch improved side and training. pushing for They have prepared well atop eight spot. and shown lots of endeav- ^Iam delighted with our. Today's game is a my seven new sign¬ local derby and will gener¬ ate lots of emotion both on e. ings Loughlin, Neill, Knowles, and off the field. Roach, Ffighton, Ilook forward to areally
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,Hi there! once again has put alot of money 5. Name today's referee? Firstly let me take this into Swinton Rugby League Club. Answers to me at club shop on ^opportunity on behalf of Once again for our part we must Station Rd by January 22nd. Mthe junior lions commit- sing, shout, stamp our feet and let 'tee to wish both Swinton the boys on the park know that we DID YOU KNOW; Chief Executive and Oldham fans avery are right behind them every pass, Tony Barrow once coached happy new year. New year, new tackle, kick, scrum. And don't for¬ Oldham. century, will this be the century that get sometime during the season SPOT PRIZE: First to name me two sees both Swinton and Oldham play things will not be going as we of our new players? (£1 coin) at Wembley? Will it be the century would like but when this time that sees rugby league's governing comes, as it will, don't knock the Latest on my keeper John Prince, he body leave the nineteenth century boys but keep on with all the has put weight on, he is working and join the rest of us in the twenty encouragement you can and come hard at his physio and is talking first? To those questions and many July 29th it will be party time here at rugby league, still along way off full more only time will tell. Hopefully the Den. At the next home game on fitness but knowing the big guy he today is the 2nd January and the first the 16th I'll give you arun down on will be itching to get back home and home game of the season, by that I our new players if it's not been cov¬ to call in the den to see us. mean the den is not frozen, covered ered on other pages of today's pro¬ Yours in Sport in snow, waterlogged or the goal¬ gramme. Adonation of £200 has Vinny Lion posts have not been moved again? been handed over to the club by the The winter has been very mild so far Junior Lions prior to today's game. but as I'm putting these notes Congratulations to Tony Barrow together on December 12th to keep (junior) and his lovely wife Nicki the printers happy anything may who had their second child Lucy in have happened. On to the months September. that are in front of us and by April 2nd Sean Casey will have lifted the Have you got your Lions lucky Trans Pennine Cup, the Lions will be numbers off Margaret. top of the Northern Ford Listen for your name. / Premiership, things are beginning to Winning name come happen as crowds start to come to down to pitchside the Den to see this great team of half time, also get ours keep marching towards the your correct score Grand Final on July 29th. All these ticket. things would put smiles on the faces of every true Lions supporter but the The first Junior biggest smile of ail would be that of Lions quiz of the o u r c h a i r m a n M a l c o l m W h i t e w h o season is spon¬ sored by Junior rATTHETODAY'STIME OFDOING MASCOT TODAYS IS NOW KNOWN.NOTES ^ 1L i o n s C o m m i t t e e £10.00 Swinton JUNIOR LION OF Lions gift voucher T H E W E E K 1 . O n D e c e m b e r 1 2 t h Jeffrey Janssen Oldham beat Rochdale in D-O-B: 18/1/87 the AJ Law Cup. True/False School: Mount Carmel R.C.H.S. 2. Former Lion Gavin Price-Jones Wordsworth played in the same match for Road, Rochdale. True/False Accrington 3. Name Oldham's new coach. Is it Jeffrey was Mike Ford/Northern Ford/Ford runner up in last Escort. seasons Junior Supporter 4. Last year's game with Oldham award. was family fun day for the children's 'f hospital in Pendlebury. True/False
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Rarely can we have of course, and cherished by added bonus. approached anew season their parents, Iam sure, but There have been some with more optimism than we they are not inclined to sit m e m o r a b l e m a t c h e s i n do at the dawn of the new around quietly playing Christmases past, although age. Anew season, anew Scrabble, if you get my drift. interestingly Ican't remember year, anew century, anew Afar better way to spend any of them off the top of my millennium. (Same old shirt, Boxing Day from my point of head, either because of age sadly, but you can't have view would be to have been (mine) or the millennium everything.) in the car with my brother on bug. What Ido remember Appropriately, the Lions enter the long drive to Cumbria quite vividly from Christmas the new era with anew-look (nice to have alocal derby at fixtures is the smell of the team, and the best available holiday time) seeing if either cigar smoke wafting up from expert opinion is that we of us can name an entire the terraces, as what used to shouldn't lose agame all Swinton team beginning with be known rather quaintly as season. Unfortunately, the letter 'H', all playing in working men cracked open because of the millennium position (Houghton, Harries, t h e W i l l s W h i ff s t h e i r k i d s bug/Christmas Halliwell F... that's astart for had given them for festivities/pressure of you). Christmas. work/hangovers/ printing It seems strange to be starting I t h i n k i t w a s M a r c e l P r o u s t plant holidays/volatile the season at Christmas time. in his masterpiece ALa situation in the Balkans etc. I Ialways felt it was ahandy Recherche du Temps Perdu am having to write these mid-point of the season, a (not sure about the spelling, words before the match at chance to reassess, regroup, but Iknow we will get a Workington, so for all Iknow, and maybe recover ground flood of letters if that is mis- the bubble has already been lost in the first half of the spelled) who pointed out pricked. Isuspect not, campaign. The chance to how important smell is in though. start that process against local creating anostalgic yearning Whatever happened, Ivery rivals was an for the past. If it wasn't much hope Iwas at Proust, my apologies, but I Workington to witness it. did not want to disappoint because if Iwasn't 1will the editor of the programme have been at my mother- by completing acolumn in-law's on Boxing Day. without using any foreign Nothing against my words. mother-in-law. Fine So, like my old mate Proust, woman. It's just that this let's remember the past, but is aCatholic family, and let us also embrace the new ail the relatives seem to era with ail its opportunities i have more kids than is for the Lions. Au revoir, and strictly necessary. They are abientot. a lovely in their own right with ...MARTIN KELNER
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KEITH BRENNAN command atransfer fee of £100,000 attempt -to fulfill asporting Alate entrant into the pro ranks, when Peter Fox took him to ambition. Keith played for Ftigginshaw and Featherstone. Shaw Rhinos before impressing as ANTHONY GIBBONS an amateur for Oldham towards the JASON CLEGG One half of the twin combination end of the 1999 season. Did Aproduct of Littleborough RL Club, which played for Leeds Rhinos and enough to be offered acontract for this heavyweight prop turned pro for Bramley before joining Oldham at 2000 at the age of 25. An extremely Bradford Bulls and had astint with the start of the 2000 season. A accomplished scrum half who is Batley before signing for the utility back, 23 year old Anthony is expected to push player-coach Mike Roughyeds shortly after the club was earmarked to play right centre. Ford all the way for the No 7jersey. formed. Made afirst-team place his Signed atwo year contract after own property in 1999 and earned impressing Ford with Bramley in M A R K C A M P B E L L selection for the West of Pennines 1999. One of the 16 new boys brought to side against an East side coached by the club by Mike ford during the first Mike Ford. Received an approach DAVID GIBBONS two months of the player-coach's from France, but chose to re-sign for The other twin, like brother reign. Formerly with Leeds Rhinos Oldham for the year 2000. Anthony, David turned pro with and Keighley Cougars, this 24 year Leeds Rhinos as a17 year old to old hard working back-row forward M I K E F O R D follow in the footsteps of their uncle, is studying at Leeds University for a Ascrum half who has been making Neil Hague. Both became degree in chemical engineering. the right sort of headlines all his household names at Headingley and sporting life. Played for Wigan at played more than 20 senior games, LEO CASEY Wembley when only 19. Also including several in the first Super Tough prop, who played with the starred for Leigh, Oldham, League season on 1996. Formerly former Oldham club, Castleford, Warrington, Wakefield captain of Bramley, David will be a Featherstone Rovers, Swinton and South Queensland key figure for the Roughyeds at and Rochdale Hornets before ■ Crushers. Toured Down stand off half. signing for the Roughyeds for Under with Great Britain the 1999 season. Captained ,^ in 1988. Coached JOEY HAYES the side and, at the age of 32, Bramley to mid¬ Ayoung winger who has crammed a became afirm favourite of table lot into his relatively short spell as a the crowd. An Irish respectability pro. Made his name with St Helens international, he was the in 1999 for whom he played in aRegal first and on *before Trophy Final and aSuper League / ■ . Oldham landing the premiership final to earn aplace on player to Oldham job *, the Great Britain tour squad which /§i* at the third went to New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea in 1996. a An Suffered asetback with aserious ,< ,V knee injury, but fought back to play
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\ JOHN HOUGH # Will go down in local RL history as the first player to sign for the new Oldham club when it was launched injhe autumn of 1997. Has had *■ hN^cracking seasons in 1998 and I 1999. When he took the club's plaA-o1-the-year award, Anative of<3wham, John played more than 12 LIONS 30 senior games for Warrington recommended to Ford by Darryl Van G R A E M E S H A W before returning "home" to hook for de Velde. Ford, then coach of Another ex-bradford forward, the Roughyeds. Bramley, was not disappointed. Graeme is the son of former O l d h a m A t h l e t i c s t r i k e r D a v i d S h a w. KEVIN MANNION ANDY PROCTOR Ready for his third season with Another Wiganer, 22 year old Kevin Named captain of the club by Ford Oldham, he has won Scottish is aball-playing loose forward, who for the 2000 season. This former international honours and won made his senior debut with Saddleworth, Wakefield Trinity, recognition as the new club's first Rochdale Hornets when only 16. Oldham and Bramley prop forward, international. Runs and tackles Starred for the Hornets Academy now aged 30, won aman of steel hard. Another ex-student with a and Alliance sides, but then award while with Trinity, as the club degree in chemical engineering. concentrated on his studies at was then called, and has built a Lancaster University. Played for reputation as rugged players' player M A R K S I B S O N England and CB Students, for whom who performs well above his An exciting full back and goalkicker, he has toured Australia and played weight. this 23-year old played for in France. Loughborough University for four PAT RICH years before turning our for JOE McNICHOLAS Another of the younger signings, 21 Castleford's Alliance side. Played his first senior game in the year old Pat is anative of the North Recommended to Batley and Bears last match at Leeds. Broke his East. Played regular senior rugby for became an instant hit, going out on leg for the Roughyeds in the new Keighley in 1999, while studying for loan to Super League club club's first league game at alaw degree at Leeds. Also Huddersfield Giants. Has signed a Workington and missed the rest of represented England Students, for tvs'o year deal for Oldham. the 1998 season apart from abrief whom he played in the centre in the spell as sub in the final match. A World Cup Final at Hull. Can play NATHAN VARLEY pacy winger, Joe bounced back to centre of back row forward. One of the best tacklers in the club, hold down aregular spot on the Nathan played for the Roughyeds in right flank in 1999. WES ROGERS 1998 and 1999 after signing from Astrong second row forward. Was bradford. Had an injury free first T O M O ' R E I L LY has joined his home town club after season, but was desperately unlucky An international for Papua New stints with Widnes and Swinton. A in 1999 when he broke an ankle, Guinea, 25-year-old Tom is an hot property as ateenager, he was smashed awrist and then damaged Aussie with an Irish passport. Can signed for Widnes by Doug afoot on his comeback in the play stand off or loose forward Laughton. Scored two tries Alliance side. Missed much of the equally well, but will be ^ for Swinton against the season, but fully fit now and raring earmarked by Ford for the No Roughyeds at Gigg to go in the new 13 jersey. In line to play for ,Lane last Millennium. PNC in next year's Lincoln season. World Cup,
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