Roughyeds will go full throttle for win — Naylor

DAVE Cookson is expected to partner Josh Crowley at centre on Sunday.

IT might be top v bottom, but Scott Naylor has promised no let up from his side this Sunday

Roughyeds will be just as switched-on as they were two weekends ago in their victory over second-placed North Wales Crusaders.

The visitors on Sunday are basement club Gloucester All Golds, whom Oldham must beat to keep alive their title hopes.

Naylor said: “I can’t stomach complacency, and the boys know that. No way will we take Gloucester lightly. That be foolish and disrespectful to All Golds coach Brad Hepi, who is doing a fantastic job down there.

“His team will be unrecognisable from the one we beat 36-0 in Cheltenham in April. It was only the second league game of the season. Everything was still new to them. They’ve strengthened their squad considerably, as more recent results indicate.” Gloucester have picked up eight points from the last 12.

Naylor will switch his side around because he will have only four days to get it ready for the Rochdale derby at Spotland next Thursday night. He is keen to spread the workload so the team is fresh for both games.

Naylor has options all over the park and last night’s beat-the-deadline capture on loan of back-row forward Chris Clarke from Swinton shows that he wants to keep it that way in the final countdown