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THERE’S a d i s t i n c t l y Oldham Rugby League negative f e e l i n g t o Football Club (1997) Limited everything associated with 64 Union Street, Oldham OLl IDJ the club at the present Telephone: 0161 628 3677 time. The feeiing of Fax: 0161 627 5700 disappointment at how the Club Shop: 0161 627 2141 s e a s o n h a s g o n e h a s transformed itself into one Chairman C h r i s t o p h e r H a m i l t o n of total despair which goes far beyond that. Let me Vice Chairman Melvyn Lord make one thing clear -we are all suffering because Directors Stewart Hardacre things haven’t gone our Sean Whitehead w a y b u t t h e r e i s n o w a y that events this year will Media &Marketing Manager (Hon) Brian Walker detract from what we are trying to achieve and that Ciub Secretary Louise Wilson is asuccessful Oldham Rugby League team. That L o t t e r y M a n a g e r m e a n s s u c c e s s O N t h e fi e l d a s w e l l a s o f f i t . Scott Claber Although it is not always noticeable to you the Head Coach supporters, alot of work goes on seven days aweek by the M i c k C o a t e s staff at the club, and it is hard for them to keep motivated Ailiance Coaches when all they see and hear is negative statements about the John Blair club. At the risk of repeating myself we also have to keep in Tony Ogden perspective exactly where we are in our development AS A Physiotherapist BRAND NEW CLUB. We have done LESS than two years and Johnathan Thomas although we have struggled this year, for avariety of T r a i n e r - C o n d i t i o n e r reasons, it is not all doom and gloom. Tonight we welcome To n y O g d e n Bramley who have had agood season so far with only one or Head Kitman two hiccups such as last weeks defeat at bottom club Neil Haughton Doncaster and it will be agame which both sides will be Timekeeper looking to win. John Barrett Today will have seen further debate on the APC strategy Club Doctor document and hopefully we will soon be in aposition to D r P h i l K e r s h a w make decisions about the medium term future of the game Club Dentist at Premiership level. This is acrucial time for the game Neil Gibbison below Super League and we must not fail to seize the Statistics opportunity to rectify some of the inherent problems that John Blair years of apathy have brought. Programme Editor Keep the faith. Geoff Cooke C h r i s H a m i l t o n Club 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 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. 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This official 16-page document appears to have replaced McDermott’s suggestions ...and, lo and behold, it calls for next season to start on D e c e m b e r 1 . My view -and Ihave expressed it before in this programme -is that if we are going to tinker about once more with the timing of our season we MUST take advantage of the three best months for rugby in the UK calendar, namely September, October and November. Ican sympathise with those who will inevitably argue that it is inviting trouble to start anew season on December 1, just as the worst of the winter i s a b o u t t o h i t u s . Iwonder, however, if this is aclever move which could be the forerunner*;# of agradual return to afull winter season over the course of the next few years. Given anything like ahint of encouragement by attendances in J December, I’m sure the winter-rugby lobby would push to start on November 1in 2000, October 1in 2001 and September 1in 2002, by which time we would be back where we said farewell to the traditional winter season in 1995. Oldham chairman Christopher Flamilton, incidentally, also had amajc input on Tunnicliffe’s strategy document, which was due to be discussed b APC clubs in Dewsbury today. Tunnicliffe also wants to abolish the top-five play-off system in thf Premiership and replace it with aconventional and truly English-style top-eight play-off to be decided by astraight knock-out format. That makes sense, too, because as we know only too well from the experience of the Roughyeds, this season for far too many teams in the Premiership was effectively over little more than half way through the programme. Tunnicliffe was also proposing afixture formula which would require all clubs to play each other home and away, giving a34-match league programme. For the first eight weeks of the season the clubs would be split into tv, geographical groups of nine, based on asplit between Yorkshire as one groi and Lancashire and Cumbria as the other. The clubs will play other clubs in their region and t lub from either side of the Pennines would pla ms Pennine Cup final some time in late January In Luxury Also proposed is aNFP knock-out tournar K' Coach Travel and plans to limit clubs to part-time profess! apart from one overseas player, whom clubs be allowed to put on afull-time contract. The Travel Centre, Apart from that, NFP players would be lin Cobden Street, amaximum winning bonus of £175 amatch, Chadderton, 'to £100 in the 2001 season as the clubs ii k\ Oldham OL9 9LE y j |\ Tel:0161 633 3870 from News Corporation begins to run out. 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WELCOME to Fordy and his Bramley team! Well, one of the goals at the start of the season was to finish higher up the division than the teams that would have made up the 2nd division. Today’s visitors are one of those teams. But they are well placed in mid table after some good performances. Alot of things are said during the course of the season sometimes in the heat of the moment, but people being what they are will insist on having something to shout about, and if they have nothing good to shout about then they will do the opposite which creates asituation where the whole thing can explode and leave nothing. We need to set REALISTIC GOALS and work hard to achieve them. Myself and Graeme had goals which for avariety of reasons, which I won’t bore you or insult your intelligence with, but the bottom line is Ifailed, which is not easy to take. The last several weeks have been very trying for me and the players, but it’s happened and there’s no rewind button that we can press to go back and start again. Flopefully things will be learned and improved, and if success is achieved, then you supporters that have continued to watch the team will get your just reward. On the player front we are pleased to have Jim Salisbury with us to the end of the

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"SUPER League in crisis...Crisis Does anyone seriously think that Barrow Border Management...Our game is dying on its feet...No Raiders is anything other than Barrow signing a direction...No leadership...No plan.” These were few Carlisle players and the game being closed the themes of the callers to G.M.R. as Idrove down in Cumbria’s biggest city? So far it’s our only back from Oldham’s defeat at Leigh. O.K., so R.L. example of a‘merger’ and the warning signs are followers are well known for knocking their own clear enough. sport, but given that there was yet another ‘big Just because mergers are the order of the meeting’ last Tuesday (the outcome of which was day in Australia does not mean they are the future not known before going to press), at which the here. Without having an intimate knowledge of goalposts might be moved yet again, can we really Sydney’s geography it is clear that there is aworld be surprised? of difference between clubs from suburbs of the High on the agenda at the meeting will have same city merging and those from proud, been the question of mergers and the financial independent towns coming together. And if incentives for same. So let us look at what merger mergers are such agreat idea why is it that aSt. really means. Huddersfield -Halifax? The former Helens -Wigan combination is never mentioned? h a s t h e s t a d i u m a n d t h e l a t t e r h a s t h e t e a m , s o After all they are as close geographically as any merger in effect means Halifax playing at the Huddersfield and Halifax or Warrington and McAlpine. It might be as well to think of Swinton at Widnes. But then, we all know whose interests are Bury and Oldham at Rochdale before rushing into not served by such amerger, don’t we? that one! Sorry, but Idon’t see Halifax fans travelling to Huddersfield. All amerger achieves is the to kill the professional game in one of its strongholds. So, how about Wakefield -Sheffield? Now to tHo where do these two play? Neither has an entirely satisfactory stadium. If you go to Don Valley .. HUtipy UoBUe another stronghold loses its representation and the biggest centre of the Wakefield Metropolitan Borough has no team, while two of its smaller centres, Castieford and Featherstone, survive. If you play in Wakefield the consequence will be to abandon development in Sheffield after twenty years of endeavour. Where’s the sense in that? Salford and Swinton? This one could be a runner. Swinton are already off their territory, but it could mean amove into Manchester. AMalcolm White led super club could make sense here if people are prepared to grasp the nettle. To the outsider two other mergers make eminent sense. Hull Sharks and Hull K.R. is obvious, but acentury of cross-town rivalry is abig hurdle to jump. Meanwhile Whitehaven - Workington has already begun with the formation of the West Cumbrian alliance side. Further development to create aCumbrian Super League club makes sense to everyone except, apparently, the leaders of S.L.E. AUti^ > Mergers, however, should ALWAYS be enacted between consenting and equal partners. tHfe

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AN unequal and unfair share of News The average home attendance that Corporation cash, poor training facilities, a season was 1368 and is almost identical small squad hit by injuries culminating in t o a t t e n d a n c e l e v e l s s o f a r t h i s s e a s o n , poor results all keyed to the side playing 1332. So, playing winter football at outside the Borough, have resulted in this Watersheddings with aside that would season’s disappointing attendances. Who probably blow the gasket out of the current would have believed at the beginning of Ford Premiership failed also to attract the this campaign that from afull Northern audiences. The following season the side Ford Premiership weekend’s fixtures was promoted and attendances doubled. Oldham’s ‘home’ game, albeit against Oldham supporters are no different than Doncaster, would provide the lowest any others; they will support success in far attendance of the weekend (676)? g r e a t e r n u m b e r s t h a n t h e y s u p p o r t mediocrity. So, just what is the size of the support in and around the town? Well since the formation of the Roughyeds there have been the 3,000 crowds who turned out for last season’s Fleworth and B r a m l e y m a t c h e s a n d t h e 3,000 who turned up for this s e a s o n ’ s C h a r t e r D a y Rochdale game, all of course at Boundary Park. Oldhamers too made up the mass of the 3,000 attendance at last s e a s o n ’ s L a w C u p a t Spotland. Ithink therefore that its fair to say that if the team is producing the goods in the Premiership they could Sign of the times? Anew expect support along those lines. phenomenon? Not if recent history is Does winter or summer rugby make a anything to go by. We need to go back no significant difference? Probably not. True, further than 1978 to find the last time the the 3,000 attendances at the Heworth and club struggled in the lower reaches. A Bramley games were at the ‘winter end’ of squad that included players of the calibre asummer season, but after the heavy of Mike Elliott, Phil Larder, Martin Murphy, defeat by Bramley 1,000 of those John Patterson, John Blair, Geoff Munro, spectators didn’t turn out for the next Bob Blackwood, Brian Flughes, Colin home game or for that matter the rest of Flawkyard and Roger O’Mahoney could the season. The club still averaged 2,000 finish only ninth from fourteen. over amediocre season.

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The Club’s most successful campaign was in 1985 when it finished fifth in the first division with an average gate of 4,100. The most successful season for support was 1988 (5693) and we were relegated! The truth of the matter is, after allowing for the increase in the number of visiting away team supporters, the advantage of playing in the higher flight is that the club would attract the majority of the 3,000 core home support by the increased standard of fixtures. But again we come back to that figure, 3,000.

Ithink that 3,000 Oldham supporters i s a f a i r e s t i m a t e o f t h e m a x i m u m l e v e l s we could expect turning up week in, week out to support asuccessful second layer team and they would probably turn out regardless of awinter or summer season. However, the vast majority almost certainly would prefer to attend the game in Oldham. And if the side ever got back into the top flight? Look back at the level of home support over the past few years;

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A C L O S E m a t c h i s i n rower Dick Huddart in the centre and hooker John prospect this evening Shaw in the second-row. AUGUST when Oldham Four years ago, on Sunday 13th August 1995, e n t e r t a i n B r a m l e y i n the current British goal-kicker, Andy Farrell, landed 13 aNorthern Ford eight goals for Wigan, and scored atry when the Premiership match, pie-eaters defeated Leeds 45-20 in the last Rugby the outcome of which League Charity Shield which was staged at the c o u l d s o e a s i l y b e Royal Dublin Showground. Current Bramley player d e c i d e d b y g o a l David Gibbons was one of the Leeds substitutes kicks. that day. That being the case, then both ciubs would As acurtain raiser to that match, Ireland met dearly love to field the kickers handed those Scotland and beat them 26-22. Former Oldham d u t i e s t h i r t y n i n e y e a r s a g o o n S a t u r d a y 1 3 t h prop Hugh Waddell was amember of the Scottish August 1960. On that day Oldham met St. Helens pack whilst included in the Irish line-up were three at Watersheddings in aleague match which the players with Oldham connections. At stand-off was Roughyeds won 16-4. They scored two tries, from Des Foy (ex Saddleworth Rangers and Oldham), in stand-off Alan Kellett and loose-forward Geoff the second-row was Tony Nuttall (ex Oldham) and Robinson, but it was full-back Bernard Ganley who at prop was the current Oldham skipper Leo Casey scored the bulk of the points with five goals. That who scored one of the Irish tries. very same afternoon, Saturday 13th August 1960, Friday 13th August was asignificant day in Bramley were at home to Halifax and they lost 21- the career of former Oldham utility player and 13. Hooker L. Kennedy scored atry for the current Bramley hooker Richard Russell. That day Villagers with Maori full-back John Wilson also R u s s e l l w a s t r a n s f e r r e d f r o m O l d h a m t o landing five goals. Wilson holds the goal kicking Castleford. He made 122 appearance for record for Bramley having landed 926 between Castleford during the following six season, scoring 1953 and 1964. Ganley landed 1,365 for the 13 tries, before moving to Bramley during the Roughyeds between 1951 and 1961, more than close season. any other Oldham player. Finally the prestigious Champions Challenge Wigan full-back Jim Sullivan landed aWorld amateur pre-season tournament reaches its semi¬ record 2,867 goals during his career. He booted final stage tomorrow. Five years ago, on Saturday five of those goals on Saturday 13th August 1932 when Great Britain defeated New Zealand 25-14 at 13th August 1994, the semi-final round produced Monica Park, Christchurch. two outstanding performances from Woolston Thirty years later Britain were back in New Rovers and hosts Leigh Miners. Woolston defeated Thatto Heath 35-0 with stand-off Graham Zealand and included in their squad was another prolific marksman, Neil Fox of Wakefield Trinity. On Smith scoring atry, five goals and adropped goal. Monday 13th August, Fox played centre and The second match of the afternoon was afiery, landed two goals for adepleted British side which action packed encounter in which Miners defeated closed their 1962 tour of Australasia with a46-13 the Leeds based Queens outfit 26-4. An equally defeat against Auckland. The makeshift Lions line¬ entertaining day is expected tomorrow, so why not up included stand-off Dave Bolton and loose- get along to Twist Lane, Leigh where the action forward Laurie Gilfedder on the wings, second- s t a r t s a t 1 . 3 0 p m ?

R a c i s m i n R u g b y Rugby League is agame to be enjoyed by the whole community and racism has no part to puy in our sport. Racist LANGUAGE OR BEHAVIOUR WILL NOT BE TOLERATED IN THIS CLUB AND ANY MEMBER OR SPECTATOR ENGAGING IN SUCH CONDUCT WILL FACE THE SEVEREST PENALTIES AVIILABLE. We MUST ALL TACKLE RACISM AND ENSURE THAT RUGBY LEAGUE IS AGAME FOR ALL.

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R a n d o m R e fl e c t i o n s THANKS to Jack Dearden. On GMR last Sunday Jack said what many of us have thought for a long time -that Chris Hamilton and his fellow Directors have had no help whatsoever from the RFL. His eminently sensible suggestion was that the RFL could have stumped up the difference in cost between hiring Boundary Park and Spotland to keep the new Roughyeds in Oldham. What would it have cost? Maybe £30,000. What’s that compared to £4 million spent on Paris?

IF Super League go their own way and/or the Northern Ford Premiership return to winter let’s go back to the future in another way. Bring back the County Cups! *!* IKNOW Oldham were outclassed at Leigh but was it really 74 minutes before the Centurions did anything meriting the award of apenalty to the Roughyeds? No offside, no interference, no foul play? Open your mouth off the field and pay the penalty on it. Oldham versus the World!

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12 13 JANUARY IT ^If IT O' H* I II0 1RochdaleH. (Law C) 110-48 2879 Mead Farrell G Quinlan Jackman McNicholas C r o o k Casey Hough Clegg T Shaw Varley Martindale C o u l t e r Leuila T Prescott

17 Widnes L6-12 2500 Mead IT Farrell Leuila Jackman McNicholas C r o o k Barker Round Hough Clegg Shaw Quinlan 1G Martindale C o u l t e r Prescott Fitzpatrick A.N.Other

L12-34 1000 A.N.Other Mead Leulla J a c k m a n M c N i c h o l a s C r o o k G Farrell Round Hough Clegg Shaw Quinlan GCoulter TBoslock Barker A . N . O l h e r T Fitzpatrick FEBRUARY

1EGCLES GC 3rd Rd W26-7 1764 Minut 3G Mead 2T Leuila Boslock McNicholas Crook Brown IT Casey Hough Clegg IT Shaw Coulter Jackman R o u n d Peralta Prescott IT Perrett

7Batley Bulldogs LO-30 1018 Minut Mead Leuila Bostock M c N i c h o l a s Crook Brown Casey Hough Clegg Shaw Quinlan Jackman C o u l t e r Prescott Perrett Peralta

15 DEWS. RCC 4th Rd W18-10 1620 Minut 2G Mead IT Leuila Boslock McNicholas Jackman Brown 1T1G Casey Hough Clegg IT Shaw Perrett Martindale C o u l t e r Prescott Quinlan

28 Whitehaven CC 5th Rd L2-18 1438 Minut Mead Leulla Bostock McNicholas Jackman Brown 1G Casey Hough Clegg Peralta Perrett Shaw Coulter Prescott Quinlan Crook

MARCH

12 BARROW 8.H. W24-20 1123 Minut 2G Mead Leuila Bostock 2T McNicholas J a c k m a n Brown 2T Casey Hough Shaw Perrett Martindale C o u l t e r Prescott Quinlan 2G Peralta

17 HuilK. R. D8-8 2080 Minut Mead Boslock IT McNicholas C r o o k Brown 1G Casey Hough Clegg Shaw Quinlan 1G Martindale C o u l t e r Peralta Perrett Prescott

21 Hunslet Hawks L2-44 1533 Minut Mead Leuila Bostock McNicholas C r o o k Brown Casey Hough Clegg Peralta Quinlan 1G Martindale J a c k m a n Prescott Perrett Shaw 28 WIDNES VIKINGS LIB-33 Minut Mead leuila Jackman IT McNicholas 2T Wood 3G Brown Casey Hough Clegg Shaw Peralta Martindale F a r r e l l Prescott Perrett Quinlan APRIL

Minut Jackman Farrell McNicholas IT Wood 1T3G1DG Brown IT 2Doncaster Dragons W27-12 878 Casey Hough IT Clegg Shaw Prescott Martindale Varley Lewis Crook Peralta

5LEIGH CENTURIONS L20-26 2163 Minut Mead2T Jackman Farrell IT McNicholas W o o d 4 G Brown Casey Hough Clegg Shaw Prescott Martindale Varley Quinlan Crook Peralta

11 Bramley L18-24 500 Minut 3G Mead Jackman Farrell IT McNicholas IT Crook Brown Casey Hough Clegg Shaw Prescott Martindale IT Barker Varley Round 25 YORK L14-43 1125 Minut Mead IT Jackman Farrell McNicholas WoodIG B r o w n I T Casey Hough Clegg Varley Prescott Martindale C r o o k e Barker Round Peralta MAY

1SILK CUT CC Final

3Rochdale Hornets L18-29 1568 Minut Mead Wood Farrell M c N i c h o l a s Crook 5G Brown Casey Hough Peralta Clegg IT Prescott Martindale IT Quinlan Varley Round Sinfield

9Keighley Cougars L28-32 1842 Minut Mead WoodIG Farrell IT McNicholas 2T Crook Brown IT, 3G Casey Hough IT Clegg Round Quinlan Sinlield Coates Varley Jackman Peralta 23 Swinton Lions L24-31 1478 Minut Mead Jackman Farrell McNicholas Crook Brown IT, 4G Casey Hough Round IT Varley Sinfield Coates Shaw Prescott Quinlan 1T 30 WHITEHAVEN W. L24-32 775 Minut Mead Farrell Jackman McNicholas Crook Brown 4G Hough Clegg IT Round IT Varley IT Sinfield IT Fitzpatrick Shaw Prescott Barket

JUNE

6Workington Town W22-17 1148 Minut IT Mead Leuila IT Farrell McNicholas C r o o k 2 T Brown 1G Clegg Barker Peralta Round Varley Shaw 1T Coates Darkes Hough Jackman 9FEATHERSTGNB L18-25 901 Minut Mead Leuila Farrell McNicholas C r o o k I T Brown 3G Casey Hough IT Round Varley Shaw Darkes Bariter Jackman IT Peralta 13 ROCHDALE W26-18 3023 Minut IT Mead leuila Darkes IT McNicholas Crook Brown 5G Casey Hough IT Clegg Round Varley Shaw Farrell Barker Jackman IT Peralta

18 BATLEY BULLDOGS D20-20 1013 Farrelt leuila Oarkes McNicholas 1T Crook Brown 1T1G Casey Hough Clegg Round IT Peralta Shaw IT Coates 1G Jackman Sinfield

27 Featherstone Rovers L6-61 1437 Farrell 1T1G Mead Sinfield Darkes McNicholas Crook Brown Casey Hough Clegg Round Peralta Shaw Perrett Barker Jackman Prescott

JULY

4HULLK. R. L22-44 1190 Cowan Darkes Farrell IT McNicholas Crook Borwn 3G Casey Hough IT Clegg Round Shaw IT Jackman Brennan IT Barker Peralta Prescott

7DEWBURYRAMS L12-28 859 Darkes Brassington Leuila IT McNicholas Coates Brennan Casey Hough Clegg Jackman Shaw Brown 1T2G F r a s e r Round Peralta Prescott

11 Barrow B.R. L16-55 843 M c N i c h o l a s I T Coates Brown 1T2G Mead Brassington Leuila Casey Hough Clegg Round Shaw Jackman IT Fraser Sinfield Peralta Prescott

18 HUNSLET HAWKS L12-58 896 Mead Brassington IT Leuila IT Darkes McNicholas Webster Brennan Casey Hough Clegg Round Shaw Brown 2G Brook Jackman Maders

25 Widnes Vikings LO-84 3136 Crook Mead Leuila Jackman McNicholas Webster Brennan Prescott Hough Round Maders Brown Perrett Guest Nadiole Sinfield

30 DONCASTER DRAG W22-17 676 Leuita Mead Jackman Brennan McNicholas Webster Brown IT,36 Casey IT Hough IT Clegg Round IT Maders Sinfield Crook Perrett Nadiole

AUGUST

8Leigh Centurions L6-66 1619 Leuila Brassington Mead 1T Jackman McNicholas Webster Brown 1G Casey Hough Clegg Round Nadiole Perrett Prescott Crook Peralta Guest

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Oldham Council is proud to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Borough's municipal status in 1999. The Council is committed to continuing the good work of all its predecessors in serving the people of Oldham and in driving the Borough's economic, social, environmental, educational and recreational aspirations into the new Millennium.

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Associate Match C o a c h : M i c k C o a t e s 1 A fi L E U I L A Prestige Bedrooms 2Paul BRASSINGTON 1Man of the Match 3Adie MEAD Henkel Industrial 4Emerson JACKMAN Adhesives Ltd 5Joe McNICHOLAS Match Ball 6Danny WEBSTER 7Danny BROWN jCelebrate Caterers 8Leo CASEY T h a n k s t o 9John HOUGH SADDLEWORTH 10 Jason CLEGG SPORTS 11 Paul ROUND m for the contribution 12 Joe NADIOLE 13 Mark PERRETT of rugby balls to 14 Mark PRESCOTT 16 Emmanuel PERALTA ORLFC. 15 Paul CROOK 17 Danny GUEST A'"' T o d a y ' s O f fi c i a l s

Coaeh: Mike Ford Today’s Referee 1 M a r k S I B S O N M r C o l i n A . M o r r i s 2Andy POYNTER 3Wayne FREEMAN 4Dan POTTER 5Andy BRENT 6Dave GIBBONS 7Mike FORD 8Maea DAVID 9Richard RUSSELL 10 Andy PROCTOR 11 Simon WRAY 5S' Touch Judges 12 Glen FREEMAN Mr Martin J. Ashcroft 13 Steve BARNETT Mr Robert E. Ainsworth 14 Garry SCHOFIELD 16 Micky HORNER 15 Tony FELLA 17 Ryan McDONALD

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