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O L D H A M H R TheRoughye 'M MAIN SPONSORS Northern Ford A RFL Premiership ELLEN 'accident' ASSISTANCE Official Matchday Magazine Northern Ford RFIT Prer VWhitehaven Warriors At Spotland, Rochdale ^ Sunday 30th May 1^99 K.O. 3.00pm AssociateMatch Sponsor AMEGA LABELS A S M A I N S P O N S O R S O F T H E U K ’ S U T H E R O U G H Y E D S // W E A R E O F F E R I N G SUPPORTERS... PREMIER ACCIDENT r FREE 4 ASSISTANCE MEMBERSHIP TO COMPANY ELLEN ACCIDENT ASSISTANCE. TOCLAIM YOUR membership call ELLEN 0161 345 5544 rACCIDENT! ASSISTANCE CHRISTOPHER HAMILTON Chairman’s Chatter WE ARRIVE back at Spotland Oldham Rugby League f o r w h a t i s b o u n d t o b e Football Club (1997) Limited another tough game against 64 Union Street, Oldham OLl IDJ K e v i n T a m a t i ’ s m e n . I t i s w e l l Telephone: 0161 628 3677 over amonth since we played Fax: 0161 627 5700 a‘home’ game and in that period our depressing run of Club Shop: 0161 627 2141 results has not got any better Chairman with afurther three defeats. C h r i s t o p h e r H a m i l t o n Things are certainly not going Vice Chairman our way at the moment to say Meivyn Lord the least but it is in situations Directors like these that you find out Stewart Hardacre w h o h a s t h e c h a r a c t e r t o Sean Whitehead stand up and fight and those Media &Marketing Manager (Hon) who don’t. Brian Walker Iwon’t for one minute Ciub Secretary pretend that anybody at the Louise Wilson club is happy with our current L o t t e r y M a n a g e r position but Ihope that you, the fans, appreciate that we are Scott Claber working hard to rectify matters. The support we have received in Head Coach these recent games has been impressive and it is that sort of thing M i c k C o a t e s t h a t d r i v e s u s o n . Assistant Coach/Alilance Coach Whilst progress on the field is not happening as quickly as we Graeme Bradley would like there are many facets to running aclub and Iwould like Physiotherapists to think that some of the basic principles we set out to establish Alison Boyd (1st Team) are now firmly in place. The Alliance team is up and running and Johnathan Thomas (Alliance) that has to be the bedrock from which future first teams are T r a i n e r - C o n d i t i o n e r selected. With that in mind we have already signed up as To n y O g d e n professionals Kevin Fitzpatrick, Warren Druggitt, Craig Milner and Kitman Dave Lewis. All of these lads have the potential to carve out a Neil Haughton career in the game if they apply themselves correctly and on behalf Timekeeper of the club Iwould like to wish them well. Lou Laverty Finally our next home fixture in afortnight’s time is the local derby against Rochdale. Which will be played at Boundary Park with Ciub Doctor D r P h i l K e r s h a w a7.45 kick off. This game forms amajor part of the Boroughs 150th celebrations and there is lots of entertainment planned Ciub Dentist Neil Gibbison including abeer marquee with live music, past players, face painting, bouncy castles, army vehicles, lot of giveaways and the Statistics John Blair RAF Falcons Parachute Display Team. Everything will be starting at 5pm so please come along early and enjoy the special occasion. Programme Editor Thanks for your support, Geoff Cooke C h r i s t o p h e r H a m i l t o n Ciub Honours AJLaw Cup Winners 1998 Tr a n s P e n n i n e C u p The views expressed in this matchday magazine do not necessarily i F i n a l i s t s 1 9 9 8 REFLECT THOSE OF THE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF OLDHAM RLFC (1997) LTD. Country Oven (mic) Ltd. y. Wholesale Bakers y' Beech House, Wrigley Street, Oldham, Lancs OL4 IHW Tel. 0161 652 2376 !Fax. 0161 633 2691 Bakers of Morning Goods, Speciality &Flavoured Breads OFFICIAL MATCHDAY MAGAZINE 1998 o OLDHAM EVENING CHRONICLE'S Roger Halstead BOB IRVING -“ABOVE ALL HELPER OF THE HELPLESS” THE sudden death in Blackpool last month of former Oldham forward Bob Irving, at the age of 51, stunned thousands of rugby league enthusiasts who watched Oldham in the sixties and Wigan in the seventies. Bob was the type of bloke we thought was indestructible ...strong as an ox, aterrific athlete in his playing days, aman who always looked after himself and, as he proved so often in the later years of abusy life, aOhristian with aheart of gold and adeep desire to help those who were less fortunate than himself and his family. He rang me last December in search of another journalist's telephone number and, during the conversation, he told me briefly of the work he was doing for Catholic charities in the Fylde, with particular emphasis on the Job he and his wife Jenny were doing in setting up and running soup kitchens for the homeless. He had heard that Jason Robinson was involved with asimilar project in the Moss Side district of Manchester and he felt the Journalist whose number he was seeking might be in aposition to publicise the plight of the homeless in the North West and the need to recruit voluntary workers. Itold Bob that, once Christmas was over, 1 would ring him back for another chat with aview to writing apiece in the Oldham Chronicle about the role being played by aformer Watersheddings star in the care of the homeless in Blackpool and beyond, inever did make that call ...and the next I knew of Bob was the sad news of his death, relayed to me in atelephone call from adistraught Lew ^! Laverty. Iwas overwhelmed by the feeling that Ihad let the side down; that Bob would never have been so careless when dealing with an issue that clearly meant agreat deal to him. ^ Those feelings were reinforced at his Requiem Mass in St Cuthbert’s RC Church, Blackpool, when Father Peter Draper referred to his Bob Irving “fierce determination” to fight for the hungry and the homeless. Father Draper revealed that on the day Bob died from aheart attack he was due to '7) travel to London on behalf of the Catholic community in the Fylde to attend acourse in 'yi public speaking. And he went on: "He was acutely aware of the hungry, both locally and throughout m the world. He had no time for red tape or administration. If somebody was hungry, he M wanted to feed him. He just wanted to get on with it.” .sflj It was ameasure of the esteem in which he was held by the Catholic faith in the M Blackpool area that the celebration of the Mass was shared by three parish priests w and adeacon. - < Rugby League in Oldham was represented in force by many well-known former players and officials, including Joe Collins, who played in the team when Bob made his debut as a16-year-old in 1965, and John Etty, afellow member of the V® Watersheddings Hall of Fame. | | .^ Graham Starkey, who coached Bob at both Oldham and Wigan and whose close 9 friendship spanned 30 years, made amoving tribute in which he spoke of Bob the man 9 and Bob the rugby league player. ' 9 His feats on the rugby field have been well chronicled and are also ,a ^given in detail elsewhere in this programme. 4 FinestSSH Suffice it for me to say that he was afighter to the end *_ ..that the drive and determination which took him to the In Luxury top in his chosen sport enabled him, in later years, to la 1/ Coach Travel \l,champion the cause of the hungry and the homeless, 3 those who had fallen on hard times and those who had ai; genuine need. He set an example to those of us who tend to "pass The Travel Centre, Cobden Street, Iby on the other side” or those who are so pre-occupied with our own lives that we forget to return telephone calls Chadderton, O l d h a m O L 9 9 L E which might have helped others. i\ Tel: 0161 633 3870 The world is apoorer place for the passing of Bob rving, rugby league star, business and family man, devoted BX^Fax:0161 345 9347 amber of the Catholic community and, above all, helper of lelpless. o CHRISTOPHER HAMILTON Chairman’s Chatter WE ARRIVE back at Spotland Oldham Rugby League f o r w h a t i s b o u n d t o b e Football Club (1997) Limited another tough game against 64 Union Street, Oldham OLl IDJ K e v i n T a m a t i ’ s m e n . I t i s w e l l Telephone: 0161 628 3677 over amonth since we played Fax: 0161 627 5700 a'home' game and In that period our depressing run of Club Shop: 0161 627 2141 results has not got any better Chairman with afurther three defeats.