Team photo of the 1975/76 season, Oldham

[RogerT]

Have a nip over onto the Batley Bulldogs website and click on the twitter thingy up in the right hand corner and scroll down, you will see a team photo from the 1975/76 season along with others. 

 

Enjoy yourselves naming them.

 

Cheers Roger.

[saints10coach]

Memories fading, but here is my first attempt.

Back Row ??, Wheelan?, Barry Kear, Chris O'Brien?, ??, Mike Elliot, Brian Hughes, Fred Hall, ??.

Front Row. Tony Wainright, John Patterson, Kevin Taylor, David Treasure, Martin Murphy, Phil Larder.

[john in oz]

You've done better than me mate - I can't even find the photo !

[clifford]

I tried and couldn't find it

[saints10coach]

https://twitter.com/MsCityRedGirl/media keep scrolling down. We are about the 4th picture in the 1975 series.

[andykenny]

Memories fading, but here is my first attempt.

Back Row ??, Wheelan?, Barry Kear, Chris O'Brien?, ??, Mike Elliot, Brian Hughes, Fred Hall, ??.

Front Row. Tony Wainright, John Patterson, Kevin Taylor, David Treasure, Martin Murphy, Phil Larder.

Back row Ray Hicks,Bob Welding, Tony Peters .Eddie Barton next to Fred Hall

[roughyedspud]

Mr barton used to teach me at saddleworth...we had some right good chats about ORLFC..

[higgy]

This brings back some memories. Two old friends in Kevin Taylor and Fred Hall had many a happy time in Alexandra Park playing football against the Italians with them,Fred could have been a good footballer.

We met Brian Hughes and his family a number of years ago on holiday in Malta and became good friends he was a nice man and a lovely family, he sadly passed away a few years ago.

[oldfat man]

Not Ray Hicks. On left of back row is Warren Ryan. One of three 'outstanding' young forwards coming through at Oldham. He dislocated his HIP in an A team game -sad.

[andykenny]

Agreed Warren Ryans .Are you referring to Paul Starbuck and Gordon Pollard as the other two.I remember being at an A team game when Paul Starbuck swallowed his tongue, very scary.

[Watersheddings was great]

Left to right, back row first

Warren Ryan's

Bob welding

Barry Kear

Chris O'brien

Tony Peters

Mike Elliott

Brian Hughes

Fred Hall

Tony Wainwright

johnny Patterson

Kevin Taylor

David Treasure

 Martin Murphy

Phil Larder

 

 

[Roughyedz]

The picture in question is on the cover of a testimonial brochure I've got in the loft somewhere . . .and Ur spot on with the team there WWG

[Phil Cordingley]

On 15/04/2015 at 08:13, higgy said:

This brings back some memories. Two old friends in Kevin Taylor and Fred Hall had many a happy time in Alexandra Park playing football against the Italians with them,Fred could have been a good footballer.

We met Brian Hughes and his family a number of years ago on holiday in Malta and became good friends he was a nice man and a lovely family, he sadly passed away a few years ago.

Just found this post!. Remember playing in Alexandra Park with Fred Hall. He was a fearsome competitor. I lived in Glodwick in those days and went to Alexandra School. Jack Abbot and his brother I remember playing as well. The teams diminished when Fred said its time for a game of rugby-he simply ran through everybody!

I remember Brian Hughes (Rentakill nickname). Went to his pub on Lock Lane Castleford and had a chat.

Also met Barry Kear once when his pub team Fryston Hotel I think- were playing Waterhead. Told him I put 50p in a fund Oldham had set-up to buy him. He told me he went in the roughest pub ever on Huddersfield Rd where McDonalds is in Oldham-forgot its name.

[clifford]

Footballers?????

[jroyales]

With regards to Barry Kear, I recollect that Castleford wanted £6000 for him and the collection did just that. For some reason I think the club sold him on for a £3000 profit several months later to where I can't remember.

[james56]

Phil Larder was my gym teacher at Saddleworth school 70 / 71 the year i left

[Pigeon Lofter]

I remember playing a schools football game at Counthill in the mid-1970s and Phil Larder was the referee. He was certainly an all-rounder regarding sports. If people think the legendary extreme climatic horrors at Watersheddings made for difficult playing conditions, then you never played at Counthill, as that was even higher in the hills and more exposed than the RL ground down below. 

Did Counthill school play rugby? All the Catholic schools in the area did but not sure about any of the others.

 

[Pigeon Lofter]

On 13/04/2020 at 14:47, Phil Cordingley said:

Also met Barry Kear once when his pub team Fryston Hotel I think- were playing Waterhead. Told him I put 50p in a fund Oldham had set-up to buy him. He told me he went in the roughest pub ever on Huddersfield Rd where McDonalds is in Oldham-forgot its name.

There was a lot of rough pubs up that way back in the day! I used to drink up there and play darts most Friday nights when all the nutters and ####### came out to play/fight. I imagine all those places have been demolished these days but the memories remain.

Oldham was a roughhouse at weekends. People came from far and wide for a night on the tiles, there used to be coaches parked up behind C&A from many Lancashire towns as Oldham town centre was the place to be. As well as the pubs there were little nightclubs tucked away in basements all over the place. Now,gone forever of course.