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Roughyeds spotlight ready to close in on Mordell

The popular Bob Mordell, who came north to play for Oldham in 1979, is expected to again receive the applause of an Oldham crowd when he receives his Heritage certificate at half-time on Sunday.

Now aged 69, Mordell left rugby union and London to sign for Oldham with his pal and Middlesex county championship teammate Adrian Alexander. He scored ten tries in 73 games for Roughyeds, as a second-row forward, compared with prop Alexander’s 12 tries in 80 games.

Now settled in Oldham and a former elected councillor in the town of many years’ standing, Alex, or Adrian to give him his Sunday name, is an official Roughyeds’ ambassador and he will be at the Vestacare Stadium on Sunday, perhaps taking to the pitch at half-time to celebrate Heritage with his best mate Mordell

Also receiving his Heritage certificate at the London Skolars game will be scrum-half Billy Broomhead, who signed from Tenby RU Club in South Wales. Like our club ambassador, he married and settled locally and still lives in Grotton nearly 60 years after putting pen to paper at Watersheddings.

Congratulations to all of them from the present-day Roughyeds.

They will. of course. have the support and backing of eight more Watersheddings old boys who will be at Sunday’s game, namely Martin Murphy, Mike Elliott, Andy Wilde, Dave Walker, Terry Ogden, Ray Hicks, Joe Warburton and John Watkins as well as Steve Deakin, our former coach and a senior member of that well-known local rugby league family, the Deakins.

Well-known Australian rugby league journalist Steve Mascord will also be here in his current capacity as a lead media man at Skolars.

Now based in London, Mascord is known all over the world as a hard-hitting man of words, who has worked, among others, for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph.

His latest book, ‘Two Tribes’, tells the inside story of Rugby League’s divided year, 1997, and the subsequent birth of the NRL.

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