Roughyeds back in top six

OLDHAM RL have crept back into the top six thanks to their battling 28-18 win against Workington at Whitebank.

Their one remaining game, on Sunday, September 2, is at bottom-club Gateshead Thunder, who have lost each of their 16 league games and have conceded, on average, 46 points a match.

If Martin Roden's men win on Tyneside, seventh-placed North Wales Crusaders won't be able to catch them, nor will eighth-placed London Skolars if they fail to beat Whitehaven at home on Friday night in the only Championship One game to be played next weekend (because of the Carnegie Challenge Cup final at Wembley).

London are two points behind Oldham with a game in hand, but after playing Whitehaven their final game is also at home against current leaders Doncaster.

They would have to win both those games to push Oldham out of the play-offs so long as the Roughyeds don't slip up in the North-East.

"We'll be going to Gateshead aiming to win. Everything else is out of our control. What will be will be," said a philosophical Roden.












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