NORTHERN FORD PREMIERSHIP Mark Campbell Main Sponsors ELLEN at Boundary Park Mon 29th May 2000 Kick-off 3.00pm / a c c i d e n t X * Associate Match Sponsor: ALPHATEC LABELLING SYSTEM LTD ASSISTANCEX : A S M A I N S P O N S O R S O F T H E U K ’ S //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 FREE 4 ASSISTANCE MEMBERSHIP TO COMPANY ELLEN ACCIDENT ASSISTANCE. TOCLAIM YOUR membership call ELLEN 0161 345 5544 rACCIDENT! ASSISTANCE With Christopher Hamilton THIS afternoon promises to be another stern test of our capabilities as atop side in the Northern Ford Premiership. Doncaster, our guests this afternoon, have spent big to assemble aside that has performed well this season and we will have to be “tuned in” for 80 minutes to get the win we want. It is ironic to see ourselves and Doncaster so near the top of the table after last season when we finished in the bottom two positions in the league. Ihave said, on may occasions, since we started the club that our position as aclub would be strengthened considerably once the News Corporation distributions were evened up and the 2000 season has seen that happen. The remaining games for the players this season include some real toughies but the beauty of the situation is, after today’s visitors Doncaster, we still have to play Leigh, Widnes and Featherstone all at home, and Dewsbury away, out of the top eight and therefore we can control our own destiny. It would be remiss of me not to mention the achievements of last weekend at the club when we fielded 3teams at Academy, Alliance and first team level. The icing on the cake was the fact that all 3teams won, 2away from home and particular mention should go to the Alliance and Academy teams who both won tough games against bigger and intimidating opponents. Congratulations must go to the players and staff of all three sides. Finally it was interesting to see that certain clubs were complaining about the number of games in May. Why didn’t they do this before the fixture format was voted in? (unamimously Ithink). The great game of Rugby League is alaughing stock at times, and outbursts like these only serve to highlight why. Time and energy would be better spent trying to come up with ways for clubs to survive when the Sky money runs out, instead of all the negative comments. Come to think of it Ipropose to surest this at the APC meeting next Friday but then again responsible management and forward planning are not things that sit well in Rugby League Boardrooms are they? Oh well, it was anice thought while it lasted. Enjoy the game. C h r i s H a m i l t o n Oldham Rugby League Football Club (1997) Limited 64 Union Street, Oidham OLl IDJ Teiephone: 0161 628 3677 Fax: 0161 627 5700 Ciub Shop: 0161 627 2141 CHAIRMAN Christopher HamiKon STATISTICS Eddie Barton DIRECTORS Christopher Hamiliton, Stewart Hardacre, PROGRAMME EDITOR Geoff Cooke Sean Whitehead JUNIOR ROUGHYEDS Debra Rafferty COMMERCIAL MANAGER Scott Claher CLUB HONOURS AJLaw Cup Winners 1998, 1999/2000 HEAD COACH Mike Ford Trans Pennine Cup Finaiist 1998 ASSISTANT COACH John Henderson H A L L O F F A M E M E M B E R S ALLIANCE COACH Haydn Walker (SPONSORED BY J. W. LEES, BrEWERS) FIRST TEAM PHYSIOTHERAPIST Debbie Ciough Joe Ferguson 1899-23, KiTMAN Mike Toothiii Alan Davies 1950-62, Bernard Ganiey 1950-61, TIMEKEEPER John Barrett John Etty 1954-59, Derek Turner 1955-59, CLUB DOCTOR Dr Phii Kershaw Bob Irving 1964-74, Martin Murphy 1966-82, CLUB DENTIST Neii Gibbison Andy Goodway 1979-85 &1993-94 The views expressed in this MATCHDAY 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 For The Use Of Photography CD F C m F O C U S With Mike Ford Waiker^s Alliance First Division Round Up AFTER the setbacks Cumbria in avery positive frame of mind, the a g a i n s t K e i g h l e y a n d players having made abig commitment to Whitehaven we were training and playing in the last week to 10 pleased to get back to days. winning ways against Today’s game against Doncaster is areal Barrow. Ithought the 4pointer and we will be trying to avenge our p l a y e r s s h o w e d g r e a t defeat earlier in the season at Belle Vue. My character and old Castleford team mate St. John Ellis has commitment, although done areally good job in his first season as we were sometimes Coach and has produced areally competitive naive on the last team. Ialso played with Craig Weston at South tackle when we should Queensland and know what atalented have been applying footballer the Dragons’ leading scorer is. The more pressure. dub’s management are desperate for success Barrow’s defeat means there is abit of agap t h i s y e a r a n d t h e i r r e c e n t s i g n i n g s o f N e i i opening up between the top 8and those A l e x a n d e r f r o m L a n c a s h i r e Ly n x a n d J a m i e challenging in 9th and 10th positions and our Leighton from Hunslet testify to their ambition. attitude now is to look for apush into the top So, it;s another tough game in prospect, but four rather than be looking over our shoulder our destiny is in our own hands and, with your at those below us. support, we can pull it off. These notes were written before Friday’s Enjoy the game. game at Workington but we travelled to Mike TRIPS to Cumbria are never easy A L L I A N C E S C O R E B O A R D :and although our opponents last Top Tries :iweek, Barrow, were bottom of the 14 Chris Spurr (Featherstone); 13 Shane IIleague we realised itwas going to Irabor (Barrow) &Simon Lewis(Wigan); 11 need atop performance to get Mike Briggs (Widnes); 10 Shelton Davis iMthe two points. (Hunslet), Stuart Dickinson (Leigh), Gavin Dodd (Oldham), Phil Jones (Wigan), Matt Injuries to the first team Turner (Featherstone) &Alex Wilkinson j m e a n t o u r p a c k w a s s o m e w h a t (Bradford); 9Jim Forshaw (Salford), Chris .lightweight, with young Warren Chapman &Paul Sterling (Leeds) HDruggitt filling in in the second Top Goals Hrow and sixteen year old Anthony 46 Kevin Fitzpatrick (Oldham) &Steve Whitehead on the bench. We Stoddart (Whitehaven); 42 P. Jones; 40 Liam Jones (Widnes); 32 Craig Wingfield achieved agreat win 23-18, and although that may (Leigh); 31 Paul Sykes (Bradford); 30 Craig look close we did always have control to the game. Fisher (Workington) Wes Rogers, Alex Peet and Welshman Jonno Jones all had big games in the pack, Kevin Alliance First Division Fitzpatrick, Adie Meade and Dave Harris in the PW DLFADPTS Widnes Vikings 1510 05508 246 262 20 backs standing out. Best on the day however was Hunslet Hawks 14100 4319 306 13 2 0 Joe McNicholas who time after time went looking Featherstone Rovers 149 05389 314 75 18 Oldham 159 06320 279 41 18 for work bringing the ball out of our twenty metre Leigh Centurions 168 17397 375 22 17 zone. Whitehaven Warriors 128 04327 261 66 16 Batley Bulldogs 167 1 8 279 319 -40 15 The top five is still tight but we now have Rochdale Hornets 136 0 7 258 337 -79 12 games at home to Workington, Whitehaven, Batley Workington Town 144 0 10315 331 -16 8 Keighley Cougars 144 0 10298 383 -85 8 and Widnes; with just one away trip to Leigh. Barrow BRaiders 153 012271 530-259 6 CD Amega Lansaowne L a b e l s L t d Roofing Manufacturers of Computer Barcodes and High Quality Self Adhesive Labels SuDOlies Ltd. 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