Flying wingers have incentive to bloom

WHILE Scott Naylor will be looking for a massive improvement defensively, Oldham wingers Dale Bloomfield and Mo Agoro will have special reasons for wanting to score tries in Sunday's clash with South Wales Scorpions at Whitebank.

It will be Bloomfield's 100th pro appearance - and for any winger there would be no better way to celebrate than by running a few tries.

Now in his second term at Whitebank, he has made 35 appearances from a possible 36, and already has 10 tries to his name this season, the division’s third-highest number.

On Oldham's right flank, Agoro is joint sixth in the divisional list with seven tries - all seven scored in the last half-dozen games. No another player, from Super League down, equals that burst.

For Naylor and assistant Lee Spencer, Sunday's game against the division's bottom club will be as much about stopping Scorpions scoring as running-up their own tally, given that the 44 points they conceded against Hemel was the most in Naylor's time at Oldham.

Roughyeds begin the second half of the season as the third of three clubs separated at the top by one point. But they have an inferior for-and-against record than Hunslet or York - the battle for a top-two finish could hinge on that record.

Naylor is quick to dismiss suggestions that Sunday's opponents will be easy meat. They followed a two-point home defeat by Gloucester by smashing Skolars 46-18.