Listen to Bill on Oldham Community Radio

BUSINESSMAN Bill Quinn, our club chairman, will be featured on Oldham Community Radio (99.7fm) between noon and 1pm this Saturday, October 5.

You can either tune in or visit the studio and listen in the flesh, as it were.

The station said ALL are welcome to attend and to listen to the interview with Bill who has said he will take the League One title trophy in with him.

He will be a star guest on the "A Chance To Meet" programme, similar to "Desert Island Discs" in which the star guest listens to his favourite music in between telling his life story.

Bill, as chairman, and Mike Ford, as full-time managing director, are leading the big Rugby League Revolution in Oldham, who have a ten-year agreement to use Boundary Park and are looking forward to playing alongside the likes of Widnes Vikings, Bradford Bulls, Toulouse Olympique, Featherstone Rovers, Halifax Panthers etc in the Championship next season.

The great Sean Long, who has won the Lance Todd trophy at Wembley three times, coaches them and they have already announced the signings of Super League forwards Gil Dudson and Adam Milner as they look ahead to the Championship and an exciting future.

"This will be a fascinating programme," said OCR's Gerald Brierley, "and we are expecting huge listening figures as well as a good turn-up on the day, " said Gerald, himself an Oldham RLFC supporter and a regular commentator on match days

Interestingly, Bill has spoken highly of Latics owner Frank Rothwell, who has also become an Oldham RLFC fan and who teamed up with Bill at last Friday's Oldham Rugby Awards Night to jointly run the club's raffle.

The Players' Association, previously known as the 'Ex Players', are also putting their weight behind the Roughyeds.

Regulars at home matches are Players Assn big shots Mike Elliott, Joe Warburton, Ray Hicks, John Watkins, Martin Murphy and Adrian Alexander, who is also a club ambassador.

Warburton, of course, is not only secretary of the Players' Assn but works for the parent club on its determined bid to work with the RFL on its celebrated Pathway programme for young boys and girls.

As chairman, and a man whose money is paramount to everything Mike Ford is able to do on the playing side, Bill is to the fore in the Big Rugby Revolution and when he speaks, as he will on OCR on Saturday, fans will certainly listen.