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                                                 MICK NANYN
 
Points-machine Mick Nanyn, one of the sport's biggest names outside Super League, has signed a two-year deal for Roughyeds to cover 2008 and 2009.
 
The goalkicking centre is one of many players to put their name to two-year deals with the club, but Roughyeds point out that these are incentive-based and that the agreement for year two is dependent upon promotion to NL2 in 2009.
 
Two of his former clubs, Whitehaven and Widnes, were also tracking Nanyn, along with Halifax, Workington and Barrow. But Oldham announced to the rugby league world on October 24 that Mick had put pen to paper on a Roughyeds contract to follow another experienced centre, Danny Halliwell, to Boundary Park.
 
The elder brother of former Oldham prop Danny Nanyn, Mick has loose Oldham connections, given that his dad, Mick snr., was an Oldhamer who played for Saddleworth Rangers in his youth and later signed for Wigan.
 
He married and settled in Wigan, hence the Wigan boys, Mick and Danny, were brought up as Wiganers, where they live to this day.
 
Mick has played for Swinton, Rochdale, Whitehaven and Widnes and has smashed club points records at every club he has been with. He took the Widnes record off Jonathan Davies in 2006.
 
He played 29 games for Widnes last season, scoring 28 tries and kicking 161 goals for a points haul of 434. He also has the distinction of having played in each of the last four NL1 Grand Finals, two for Whitehaven and two for Widnes.
 
He is an established and proven left-side centre and a highly-accomplished replacement for Adam Hughes.
 
Said chief executive Chris Hamilton: "Mick isn't only a very accomplsiehed goalicker, but he scores more than his fair share of tries as well. Over the last four or five years he has undoubtedly been one of the best and most consistent players in the upper reaches of NL1.
 
"He's a big unit as well, and he will bring lots of attributes to the club. Mick knows about the Oldham club, from hsi brother Danny, and he has no concerns about dropping down to NL2 because he, like us, believes the club is on the up.
 
"He sees NL2 as a temporary measure only and he is looking forward to challenge of helping us to win promotion."