ROUGHYEDS can regain third spot in Betfred League One this weekend if they beat Cornwall at the Vestacare Stadium on Sunday (1pm kick-off) and Workington Town lose at high-flying Doncaster, who are in second place with five wins from five games.
Admittedly with a game in hand on most clubs and THREE games in hand on unbeaten league leaders Dewsbury Rams, Stu Littler’s men have currently conceded fewer points than any other team in the division and with the exception of Dewsbury, they and Hunslet (each on 158) have also scored more than anyone else.
Oldham have a differential of 94 — second best in League One — and that will enable them to leapfrog Workington and go third if results go their way on Sunday.
The men in red and white, who have won three of their four league games so far, are also out to remain unbeaten at home, having triumphed 62-18 against London Skolars and 56-16 against derby rivals Rochdale Hornets, both at the Vestacare Stadium.
Away from home, they’ve won 18-4 in Colwyn Bay against North Wales Crusaders and scored 22 points at Doncaster where they lost 26-22 and looked capable of winning had the game gone on for a further ten minutes.
Last season, Cornwall’s first, Oldham won 48–22 here and 32–12 down in Penryn where the home side more than held their own in the first half before Roughyeds got on top later in the game.
This season, they were beaten 20–14 at home by Mayfield in the Challenge Cup, while in the league they’ve beaten London Skolars 35–10 at home and lost 40-6 at Midlands Hurricanes, 48–16 at home to Doncaster and 78–10 away at Dewsbury.
They currently sit third from bottom, above North Wales Crusaders and London Skolars, but Stu Littler is keen to see Roughyeds make progress and will well recall that Cornwall put up a gritty show when we last played them in the South-West before we came away with a result that perhaps didn’t tell the real tale of the home side’s resolve and determination.
Since then, Cornwall have recruited a young Australian, 23-year-old stand-off Cameron Brown, who has been doing an excellent job and who becomes the first Cornwall player to be named in the League One team of the month.
He comes from a rugby league-mad area, the Penrith region of Sydney, out near the Blue Mountains and well known for the famous ‘Panthers’, but before coming to England, where his Dad was born, her played all his league up in Queensland — first for Helenvale Hornets on the Gold Coast and then for the well-known Burleigh Bears, who play in the Queensland Cup, the region’s top rugby league comp and one in which many of the clubs are feeders for the NRL.
Brown was fast-tracked into the Cornwall No. 6 shirt after only two training sessions and shortly after flying into Heathrow. Now, after only a handful of games, the Rugby League World
Magazine has named him in their League One team of the month — a fitting tribute to a young Aussie who wished to try his luck on the other side of the world in the country where his Dad was born. He is described on the Cornwall website as “much sought-after.”
After two blank Sundays and three weeks without a game, everyone connected to Oldham is itching to see, or to be involved in, live action — none more so than our players, coaches and backroom staff.
Admission prices for this game at the Vestacare Stadium on Sunday (1pm kick off) are £16 adults, £10 concessions (65 and over), £5 students and FREE for under-16s. Tickets can be purchased on our ticket page.
