Dave Naylor

The Diode Derby

As far as I know, I don't think there's an appetite for that at the moment. At least it's not a priority. I hate the blummin' rubbish (expletives resisted) shield thing. It looks like a Sheriff's badge that fell off a nine-year-old's Aldi birthday card. Before it was introduced I was asked for my thoughts on what a new badge/logo should look like. So I spilled out my thoughts in a document and the last line read something like: "If you take the existing heraldic crest and simply plonk it on a shield with the words Oldham RLFC underneath it, I'll be the first in the line to campaign for it to be changed" True to my word I've beaten the drum to get rid of it ever since.

The Club has changed its name to Oldham RLFC 1876 Ltd Read More

I think someone doesn't understand what a starlet is.

One thing about Astley is that he's never going to let us down.

Thanks. My aim has always been to try and bring the club's media output up to Super League standard. The same goes for Kasey who writes a lot of the articles these days and maintains the social media channels — plus of course Roger. We could do with more resources and time but things are looking up.

Yeah, everything on the website is put there by me. Someone else puts the social media stuff out but we are in daily contact to co-ordinate things.

There are definitely more player signing announcements due out before the end of the week.

A follow up message from Bill Quinn Chairmans update in message to fans CLUB chairman BILL QUINN has issued a second message to fans in view of all that’s happening behind the scenes. Read here

O'Keefe swaps Rochdale for Oldham ROUGHYEDS have secured the highly-rated centre Ben O’Keefe on a deal lasting until the end of the 2025 season. Full story

Yes!

Chairman's update in message to fans CLUB chairman Bill Quinn has issued the following update in a message to fans as squad building continues daily https://roughyeds.co.uk/2023/10/chairmans-update-in-message-to-fans/

I can't imagine there being a time when I'd wear leopard skin, but all those Leythers dressed like something off Madagascar have obviously bought into it all. I suppose if Leigh had bombed this season though, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Jeez. I grew up crossing Vulcan Street on my way to and from the schools in Derker. My parents lived in the houses that were knocked down to create East Oldham Methodist Church. I'm literally a Vulcan! My dad was a regular in The Wellington Pub. Vulcan, Bear, Whatever. Let's be something!

Absolutely. I've been banging this drum for many years now. You cannot market Roughyeds. It's a great historic nickname but it belongs as a historical fact, much like The Gallant Youths of Batley or The Chemics of Widnes. Respectfully acknowledged but nevertheless put out to pasture. When Leigh announced that they were to become Leopards I must admit to being a doubter. Leopard skin, really? How wrong was I. No matter how tacky I think it looks, it's worked and the town of Leigh has got behind it. I take my hat off to Derek Beaumont. He had a mad idea, stayed the course and look what's happened. We've had a poorly executed minor rebrand in the past few years. I was shouting from the rooftops to get rid of our heraldic logo yet we ended up with the same thing but just plonked on a shield. A non-rebrand. The marketing people behind it were not really RL fans and are pretty-much clueless. I understand they're moving on at the end of this season. Hallelujah! So what do we become. Do you know what, I don't mind becoming Oldham Bears again. You can market that, you can create a whole bear branding. I'm sure at some point in the distant past there were bears wandering around the lands that have since become Oldham. Probably more bears in Oldham than rhinos in Leeds. Let's use Leigh as an example of what we can achieve. We're a bigger town with an impressive RL heritage.

Yarrr.

I downloaded the podcast and embedded it on the Oldham website. It won't disappear. https://roughyeds.co.uk/2023/07/a-ford-fiesta/

The online programme/match notes is available on the club website now. https://roughyeds.co.uk/match-programmes/2023/07-oldham-v-workington/

There's Ellery Hanley. Sick as a pig. Classic one-liner from the video commentator.

Dipping my toe in here. The Last of Us Zombie apocalypse genre (but they're not really zombies). Its source is a much loved PlayStation game It's really good. Drip-fed week-to-week and we're currently on episode 3.

Ha! Tonight's tweeted news also had the same hashtag. The hashtag sort of belongs to Old Leamingtonians RFC in Leamington Spa. They must be loving all the attention. Incidentally, Mrs N and I have very good mates in Leamington; we spent a lovely weekend there this summer.

Check out the hashtags of the tweet above.

Oldham Lugby Reague Football Club

And as if by magic: Physio Lee joins us as support staff continues to grow

The link in the tweet (that was supposed to come out at 20.23) won't work until, you guessed it, 20.23.