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    7th June 2000   
 
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Today's Headlines
 Oldham Evening Chronicle 
Work starts on pitch

WORK has begun on Boundary Park's rain-ravaged pitch, which has attracted a flood of controversy over the last few days. The state of the surface led Athletic to tell Oldham Roughyeds they would have to move their final home games of the season, leaving the rugby club homeless and dismayed. After the Roughyeds waved goodbye to Boundary Park on Sunday, no time was wasted on starting restoration work which will cost up to £40,000. The countdown is now on to August 6, when Athletic are due to play Leeds United in a pre-season friendly. The top one-and-a-half inches of the pitch have been removed in preparation for reseeding of the entire surface. In a summer which has so far been depressingly wet, officials are now keeping their fingers crossed for a much-needed dry and sunny spell. 

M60 site is ruled out for stadium

COUNCILLOR Richard Knowles denied last night that Oldham’s new sports stadium would be built on land behind the Mirror printing plant at Hollinwood. The Liberal Democrat council leader and chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee was quizzed by Labour opposition leader, Councillor David Jones. He wanted to know if there were any major developments which could affect the multi-million pound single regeneration budget bid for the area around the M60 in Hollinwood, Chadderton, Werneth and Failsworth. Mr Mark Sanders, assistant chief executive, said there were no such projects, but Councillor Jones said: “A newspaper has mentioned land behind the Mirror Group in Chadderton, adjacent to Morrison's, as a site for the stadium.” But Councillor Knowles said: “That is not the case and you should not always believe what you read in newspapers.”

Earlier, Councillor Jones and colleagues Councillors Riaz Ahmad and Jim Greenwood demanded a statement from the chairman about the stadium. Councillor Jones asked: “Will you make a statement about the future of the stadium and the likelihood of Oldham Rugby League Football Club having somewhere to play in the next few weeks?” But Councillor Greenwood was ruled out of order when he told Councillor Knowles: “I can remember when you sat here (on the opposition side) and asked the leader for a number of statements on big issues like the South Union Street development. But now you are incompetent and you’ve got no bottle.” Councillor Knowles said: “I won’t make a statement, and Councillor Jones knows full well what is happening as far as the Stadium Company is concerned as there is a meeting on Thursday.” The SRB bid, which could attract £85 million into Oldham over seven years, was sent to the North-West Development Agency this month, and a decision is expected in a few months. 

 Teamtalk Oldham

New pitch plan


 That Latics have changed their 'pitch plan' and experts now think that the whole pitch will now have to come up and be re-laid. The condition was in a much poorer state than was first thought and what looked to have been a simple job has now turned into a much larger project. It now means that the top 1.5 inches will be taken off and the soil completely renovated. That should relieve the competition that has been the source of the trouble. It will then be re-seeded after being re-levelled. There will then be an eight week wait until the pre-season gets underway, with games against Leeds and Manchester City in August.
It is expected that the work will be completed by Monday but that is very much in the hands of the weather.

Youth director latest


 The vacant position for a new Youth Director at the club has now been whittled down to a shortlist of three. Further interviews were held at Boundary Park on Wednesday with a third candidate currently in America still to be interviewed. He doesn't return until mid-June when the club will then interview him. The appointment is expected to be made shortly after that interview. The post became available when Peter Lowe left by mutual consent last March.
Transfer targets identified
 The Latics have been in touch with a number of clubs as they start to identify their summer transfer targets. The inquiries made by Andy Ritchie and the board have at the moment been very basic because the club knows that it must unload one or two players before any new faces can be brought in. Andy Ritchie wants to be ready to move as soon as there is any hint of outgoing activity in order to beat the competition to his identified targets.
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