Roughyeds look for cup-tie boost

OLDHAM Roughyeds have come up with a number of incentives to boost the crowd for the club’s upcoming home Northern Rail Cup quarter-final against Featherstone Rovers. 

The game, which is being shown live on Sky Sports on Thursday, June 4 (7.30pm kick off), is being held at the new Leigh Sports Village Stadium as a result of the Roughyeds’ usual Boundary Park home being unavailable.

As a result of that inconvenience and in order to boost the number of Oldham fans travelling to the big knockout clash, the club is offering free travel for all supporters who buy a ticket for the game.

Ticket prices have been set at £14 for adults and £10 concessions, with children getting in for only £1. Tickets are on sale from the club offices on Lansdowne Road, Chadderton, from this morning and also from the Boundary Park ticket office both before and after the Hunslet Hawks match this Sunday.

All fans who buy a ticket for the Featherstone game will be given, should they need it, a voucher entitling them to a place on one of the free buses which are being laid on by the Roughyeds’ transport partners Atlantic Travel.

A number of pick-up points have been set up around the town. Buses leave at around 6pm on the night and will pick up fans at, in no particular order: the Mecca Bingo car park on King Street, the Black Horse on Ripponden Road, the site of the former Woolworth’s store in the centre of Shaw , the bus lay-by round the corner from the Railway Inn in Royton and the car park at Boundary Park next to the former Clayton Arms.

In addition, anyone buying Featherstone tickets is entitled to a £3 discount on the cost of a ticket to the Blackpool Nines on the weekend of July 11 and 12, resulting in a cost of just £6 per ticket for the event.

THREE Saddleworth Rangers players turned out for England Lionhearts in their 22-10 Skanska Cup defeat against the British Police at Stanningley last night.

David Orwell and Matthew Fogerty, both 17 years old, and 18-year-old Ethan Langhorn all played for the full 80 minutes with Langhorn kicking a conversion.