Crowley leads numbers game

JOSH Crowley’s consistency in Oldham’s second row has given him the longest run of consecutive appearances in the whole of Championship One.

The 22-year-old former Widnes Vikings forward has figured in every Roughyeds game since he joined the club for the start of last season - 28 appearances in a row, more consecutive games than anybody else in the sport’s third tier.

Crowley isn’t the heaviest Roughyeds forward — at 16st11lbs he is nearly two stones lighter than Phil Joy and half-a-stone lighter than Michael Ward — but he is invariably in the man-of-the-match rankings.

His two late tries at Egremont in the Tetley’s Challenge Cup finally saw off the robust Cumbrian amateurs and set up Roughyeds for their fourth-round tie on Sunday at Super League club Bradford Bulls (2pm).



Fans hoping to travel to Bradford on club transport (£12 a head) can book and pay at Whitebank between 10am and 1.30pm today or tomorrow, after which the club will decide whether it is viable, depending on how many have booked.