Hughes has half-back potential — Naylor
Date published: 29 May 2013
SCOTT Naylor believes hooker Kenny Hughes can make a name for himself at Whitebank by switching to half-back.
When Danny Whitmore quit with a broken arm in the Gateshead game, Coach Naylor threw reluctant hero Hughes in at the deep end as partner to skipper Lewis Palfrey in one of the two pivotal decision-making roles at the hub of the Roughyeds’ attack.
It was the 23-year-old St Helens-born Hughes’s first run at half-back since his junior days with Blackbrook amateurs.
Naylor later revealed that he identified Hughes’s potential in pre-season training.
“Kenny preferred to take his chance as a hooker, and I respected that,” said the Oldham boss.
“He might think differently now. If Kenny was to give serious thought about playing at half-back on a more permanent basis it would also be a way of getting him more game time.”
Most Viewed News Stories
- 1Top chef praises bosses despite hospitality business failing
- 2Oldham Coliseum rescue ‘very much back on the table’
- 3Milan Bar in Lees and The Bank at Delph close doors with immediate effect
- 4Police extend search for wanted Oldham man
- 5Oldham man charged after assaulting and 'outrageously' exposing himself to Metrolink staff and...