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WRIHEN DETAILS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. ...with Christopher Hamilton Oldham Rugby League Football Club (1997) Limited T H E n o r m a l “ W e l c o m e 64 Union Street back to Boundary Park” message in these notes Is Oldham 0L1 1DJ no longer relevant as we Telephone: 0161 628 3677 never seem to play away Fax: 0161 627 5700 from home any more! This Club Shop: 0161 627 2141 Is aproblem for the Club as well as you the paying CHAIRMAN customer and the fixture Christopher Hamilton format has to be looked at DIRECTORS Christopher Hamiliton, Stewart in respect of the problems it Hardacre, Sean Whitehead HEAD COACH brings. Mike Ford ASSISTANT COACH i'.( ’ To d a y w e w e l c o m e Whitehaven, who are aclub John Henderson A L L I A N C E C O A C H t h a t h a s e x p e r i e n c e d Haydn Walker problems over the last few ACADEMY COACH Mark Knight months and despite apoor start to the season are now ACADEMY MANAGER starting to show some form. Playing against them is never Pete Beswick FIRST TEAM PHYSIOTHERAPIST easy but Mike will have the players well prepared you can Lisa Sharratt be assured. This week has seen around of NFP fixtures ALLIANCE/ACADEMY and the division is beginning to take shape. The beauty of PHYSIOTHERAPISTS Jodie Whittle, Danni Turner the competition is that with having atop eight play-off CONDITIONER there is much more to play for long into the season for Tony O’Brien TIMEKEEPER more of the teams. John Barrett The Alliance team is also well into its season and it is C L U B D O C T O R Dr Ian Wilkinson great to see them in fourth place at the moment. What is C L U B D E N T I S T particularly pleasing for all of us is the fact that this is being Neil Gibbison STATISTICS done with ateam that is comprised mainly of players who Eddie Barton, Bruce Deadman are under 24. This is areflection of the hard work which P R O G R A M M E E D I T O R Geoff Cooke has gone on at the club to encourage good, young talent B O A R D R O O M S U P E R V I S O R and in the last game against Workington of the 17 players Lewis Laverty on duty 15 were under the age of 24, 13 were under the C L U B H O N O U R S age of 21 and 10 were playing in the Academy team last AJLaw Cup Winners 1998, season -that is great progress for afledgling club like 1999/2000 Trans Pennine Cup Finalist 1998 ours and if you couple that with the recent signings of H A L L O F F A M E M E M B E R S youngsters of the quality of James Wilkinson, Paul (SPONSORED BY J. IV. LeES, BrEWERS) Joe Ferguson 1899-23, Herman Hilton Bennett and James Kirkland we have to be pleased with 1913-26, Alan Davies 1950-62, the way the youth policy is progressing. Our Chief Scout, Frank Stirrup 1950-62, Bernard Ganley 1950-61, John Etty 1954-59, John Jackson, has already put in alot of work with the Derek Turner 1955-59, Bob Irving local Amateur clubs and we obviously intend to carry this 1964-74, Martin Murphy 1966-82, on. “Jacko” has awealth of experience in recruiting talent Andy Goodway 1979-85 &1993-94. and is this Club’s future. Enjoy the game. FRONT COVER C h r i s H a m i l t o n Oldham RLFC 2000/2001 The views expressed in this matchdat magazine do not necessarily reflect those of the management and staff of Oldham RLFC (1997) Ltd. We Would Like To Thank The Oldham Evening Chronicle &Rugby League Express For The Use Of Photography 3 PERSONAL TYRES D E R E K A N T H O N Y L T D . 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As yet Whitehaven have not enjoyed the best of results with just two home wins against Chorley and Rochdale. I know it takes time for anew coach to get across his ideas but Paul Cullen is an excellent prospect and I am certain that with time he will turn Whitehaven into aformidable side, though hopefully not too much so before today. The Queensbury Cup tie and the Chorley Lynx League game had both plusses and minuses. On the plus side we continued to show disciplined defence and to concede only two points overall was very satisfying. We were able to run in plenty of tries with many of these the result of outstanding teamwork. In addition the young players we introduced like Gareth Barber, Gavin Dodd and Lee Doran all did themselves proud emphasising to me that we now have much greater strength in depth and that these players can handle first team football. As a consequence the team is full of confidence and we hope to kick on from here with good results in both League and Cup. On the minus side Ithought we got abit over-adventurous at times, trying to force passes that weren’t really there and as aresult our ball control wasn’t as good as I would like. Relatively easy games like the last two put you in a‘no win’ situation because people get frustrated that every attack doesn’t put points on the board. Expectations are high and it is not always possible to live up to them. Ihope we scored enough points, however, to keep you happy. The Cup draw is atough one but we can’t ask for more than ahome game. The rest is up to us. Hull KR will bring adecent following with them so it should be agood atmosphere. And if we should win there is every prospect of acrack at one of the top sides in the next round. However, first up there is the little matter of Whitehaven today. As ever, enjoy the game. 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