THE Players’ Association chose the half-time interval at our home game against Doncaster to present Terry Ogden, Ray Hicks and Mike Elliott with their framed Oldham RLFC numbered Heritage Certificates.
It’s part of a major operation by the Association and the Oldham RL Heritage Trust (Mike Turner) to present such certificates to everyone, or a relative, who has ever played for Roughyeds at first-team level.
The presentations were made by Joe Warburton, secretary of the Players’ Association and himself a former hooker with Oldham and Carlisle and well-known locally as a qualified and experienced coach.
It was a weekend for a double celebration by Ray Hicks, whose son Robert, a top referee, handled his 300th Super League game — another massive Rugby League achievement by an Oldhamer.
Left to right in this group picture are Joe Warburton, Ray Hicks, Mike Elliott and Terry Ogden, who spent most of his career at Salford, for whom he played against Castleford in a Challenge Cup final at Wembley.
Many of the Heritage certificates are going to various parts of the world, notably to Australia and New Zealand, but there are still lots of them to be handed out in person and some of them will be presented again on the pitch when we play North Wales Crusaders at the Vestacare Stadium on Sunday, July 31 in our next home game.
