THE Rugby League World Cup starts this Saturday, but there are also two big rugby league events locally this weekend — one on Friday night, the other on Sunday.
ON FRIDAY, at St Herbert’s on Broadway, the Players Association will stage its annual dinner. About 120 will sit down to dinner and top-table guests will include Paul Sculthorpe (guest speaker) and Oldham RLFC chairman Chris Hamilton in recognition of his 25 years at the club’s rudder, all but two of them as chairman.
ON SUNDAY, at the Waterhead club, the Oldham Amateur Rugby League stages its ever-popular Youth and Junior Cup Finals when the stars of tomorrow go on show at the home of our very own National Cup holders. Saddleworth Rangers appear in all three finals.
The programme is as follows (all welcome):
UNDER 12s CUP FINAL (kick-off 11am):
OLDHAM ST ANNE’S V SADDLEWORTH RANGERS.
(Sponsored by the Oldham Players’ Association).
UNDER 14s CUP FINAL (kick-off noon):
SADDLEWORTH RANGERS V OLDHAM ST ANNE’S.
(Sponsored by the Oldham Players’ Association).
UNDER 15s CUP FINAL (Kick-off 1.15pm):
LIMEHURST LIONS V SADDLEWORTH RANGERS
(Sponsored by Rugby Oldham Supporters’ Trust.)
ON SATURDAY, if you are not going to St James Park, Newcastle, for the England v Samoa World Cup opener (2.30pm kick-off) you can watch it live on BBC 1 in a programme that starts at 1.15pm after the BBC News.
ON SATURDAY also, in the evening, friends and acquaintances of Jimmy Fletcher, who was steward for a time of the social club at the old Watersheddings ground, will be meeting up in The Railway Inn, situated at the main traffic lights in the centre of Royton.
