Chief executive Darren Royle of Oldham Athletic believes his team ‘would love’ to have promising forward Josh Stones from Wigan Athletic on a second loan, but his cries are likely to be ignored. During his brief tenure with the ‘other Latics’ the previous season, the 20-year-old scored three goals in four games before sustaining a…
Gary Brabin, the assistant manager of Oldham Athletic, doesn’t try to hide the part that coaches gave him while he was a player. The then-midfielder’s no-nonsense approach was one that teams would use to try to fight their way out of problems. It was successful. “Where people were under pressure they would bring me in…
The Rothwell family has expressed gratitude for the skilled attorney’s efforts in uniting the club under a single ownership during that period and in his subsequent efforts to help Latics establish a strong foundation for the future. Drawing on his prior experience with The Football Association and Wigan Warriors, where he was chairman from 1998…
Oldham Athletic have staged a number of community events since the end of the football season, including junior tournaments, men’s walking football and the club’s cricket ‘world cup’, before the maintenance work began this week. In what is a six-week programme to replenish the grass ready for the 2024/25 football season, Oldham RLFC, who now…
Oldham Athletic Supporters’ Foundation have expressed concerns over reports that the National League and Premier League are in talks over a new competition, following the scrapping of FA Cup replays. According to The Athletic, each National League team would play each Premier League U21 team at home in four groups of eight teams, made up…
The Oldham Times understands that some players who are heading into the final year of their contract at Boundary Park have been encouraged to find other clubs. Among them are goalkeeper Magnus Norman, midfielders Nathan Sheron and Mark Shelton and forward Alex Reid. Defender Hogan is also believed to have had similar conversation, and also…
After his loan with Oldham Athletic was terminated, Sai Sachdev went back to his parent club, Sheffield United. The young player, who can play right back or right wing back, came to Boundary Park in the middle of January and is on loan there through the end of the current campaign. After making his debut…
The young player left the Tigers’ academy over the weekend and began a new career elsewhere. After joining Hull City in the summer of 2022 from Oldham Athletic, striker Jim Simms’ tenure at the MKM Stadium was cut short as his contract was mutually terminated. Since then, the 20-year-old striker has joined Wythenshawe Town FC,…
Chairman Frank Rothwell made a hero’s return on Saturday at Boundary Park, where there was the largest Latics home league crowd since 2004. After his incredible achievement of becoming the oldest person to row across any ocean solo and setting a new world record, Frank was given a special welcome home by the 11,881 spectators,…
Oldham Athletic, Dan Langley’s parent club, has called him back from his loan spell at Blyth Spartans. After spending time with the team during the summer, when he made one league appearance and preserved a clean sheet in a 2-0 victory over Spennymoor Town, the 23-year-old custodian reconnected with the team in December. After returning…