It isn’t easy trying to find a new date for the home game against Workington, but hopefully it will be confirmed soon.
In the meantime, the club has announced that supporters who bought tickets on-line for last Sunday’s scheduled fixture can use them for the rearranged game and If anyone cant make the new date for any reason they will get a refund.
Because of the postponement and Hunslet’s 28-8 win against Doncaster, Hunslet have leapfrogged us into third place in Betfred League One, which gives added significance to this Sunday’s Oldham v North Wales Crusaders game at the Vestacare Stadium (3pm kick-off),
Crusaders beat Rochdale 32-24 last Sunday and they are badly in need of more league points to stay in the play-off five while Roughyeds, now third in the five (fourth overall), can’t afford a home slip-up, especially as Hunslet go to Midlands Hurricanes on Sunday and Workington Town are at home to Rochdale on the same day.
Dewsbury Rams, who were given a massive fright last Sunday before pipping Hurricanes 28-23, are red-hot favourites to finish top, with the play-off five currently in this order:
Doncaster (p12, 20 points), Hunslet (p12, 18 pts), OLDHAM (p12, 17 pts), Workington Town (p11, 14 pts), North Wales Crusaders (p12, 10 pts).
Roughyeds have still to play three of the five — Workington at home (date to be announced), Crusaders at home (this Sunday, July 9), Hunslet away (Sunday, July 16) — and with a total of six games to go they also have to play derby rivals Rochdale Hornets at the Crown Oil Arena next month.
Rochdale v Oldham is always a tough game, so it can be assumed that anything can happen yet in the jostle for play-off positions, starting with this Sunday’s three hugely-relevant games, among them Oldham v North Wales Crusaders (3pm kick-off) at the Vestacare Stadium when winger Patrick Ah Van, third in the list of this season’s League One try scorers with 13, will come up against his former team.
The only two players who have scored more league tries than Ah Van are Dewsbury’s Owen Restall and Doncaster’s Sam Smeaton, each with 14.
The Oldham-Workington game last Sunday was postponed because the Cumbrians’ team coach was stuck in traffic on the M6 after a major traffic accident.
