Forward test in store

OLDHAM RUFC are expecting a tough forward battle in tomorrow’s North Lancs/Cumbria division clash at Wigton.

That was the case in the first week of the season when the Cumbrian club won 15-5 at Manor Park.

Oldham are without forward Adam Waterhouse, who has a knee injury, but the pack is strengthened by the return of Rob Fryer and Steve Molloy and Jamie Edwards gets a call-up from the ‘A’ team.

1st XV (Wigton, away, meet club 11am for 3pm kick off): Goodman, Gorey, Langley, Ward, Lamb, C Roscoe, Barber, Collins, Heptonstall, J Taylor, Wardle, Brogan, Fryer, Bergin, J McEwan, Cooper, L Roscoe, Edwards, Molloy.

‘A’ XV (Rochdale, home, meet club 1.30pm for 3pm kick off): Booth, Collinge, Simpson, Knight, C Jones, Davies, Graham, Vatikions, N Taylor, L Jones, Burgess, Jakeman, Howard, McKenzie, Suiter, Crossley, J Watson, Maslen, Pierre.

Extra ‘A’ (Heaton Moor, away, meet club 1.15pm for 3pm kick off): Beswick, Sweeney, Martin, Hushion, Nixon, Barrett, Mitchell, Froggatt, Maxwell, R Jones, D McEwan, Walsh, Walmsley, Lowther, Heath, Lowe, Phelan, Massey, Renshaw, Kennedy.

Vets (Bury, home, meet club 1.45pm for 3pm kick off): Aylett, Bernard, Blogg, Brierley, Faulkner, Forsyth, Dom Hall, Hodge, Hodkinson, Horsfall, Johns, Luke, Lockett, McDowell, Mullholland, Selby, Thackwell, Trickey, White.

Colts (TBA, Sunday): Ashcroft, Birch, Brennan, Denbigh, Clifford, Collinge, Davey, Froggatt, Heginbottom, Holt, Massey, May, J McEwan, McKenna, Peacock, Piekos, C Roscoe, L Roscoe, J Taylor, Ward, Wan.