More new faces on the horizon

OLDHAM RL boss Scott Naylor hopes to sign more new players soon.

Of the 16 already on contract for next season there are three newcomers: prop Paddy Rooney, half-back Brett Robinson from Oxford, and hooker or half-back Danny Whitmore, who returns to Whitebank after a season with Batley Bulldogs.

Naylor said: “With a bit of luck they won’t be the last of the new boys. They will add quality to the squad and they will fit in nicely with the players who have re-signed from last season.

“Lee Spencer (assistant coach) and I have ideas and philosophies which we firmly believe in and which our players need to buy into, as most of them have done.

“We’ve already got a good nucleus signed on and in anticipation of others to follow I’m more confident about next season than I ever was about 2013."