Oldham coach demands ‘quality’

‘QUALITY’ is the buzz word as Oldham RL Club set their sights on going one better than last season and finally winning promotion in 2014.

With pre-season training into its second week, coach Scott Naylor and his backroom team have raised the bar in setting standards designed to give the squad every chance of improving on last term’s second-place finish in Championship One followed by defeat in the play-off final.

“Last season's winter preparation was good, but this time we’ve got to be even better and we WILL be even better,” said the Roughyeds' boss.

“Starting right now, in everything we do in pre-season and then taking it into the season proper, we have to improve individually and collectively.

“I include everybody in that, from myself and the entire backroom team right down to the youngest players and the most recent recruits.

“Everything we do must be labelled ‘Quality’ and with that in mind we’ve made changes to some of the things we did in pre-season last year and we’ve also reshaped the working schedules of the backroom staff so that we have more personnel on duty at every training session.

“We were a little bit weak in some aspects of our performances last season.

“I’m not going into detail, but we’ve identified where we can improve and we’ve looked at ways in which we can provide those improvements and factored them into our winter prep work.

“It was felt necessary to have more members of staff on duty when we are training so that the whole operation can become even more professional than it was last year.”

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