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ADAM ROBINSON

TOUGH-NUT Adam Robinson, who impressed a lot of fans last season with his all-action displays in the pack, has re-signed for the Roughyeds on a two-year deal covering 2008 and 2009.
 
Injury restricted the 21-year-old Yorkshireman to only ten games for Oldham in 2007 after he damaged a shoulder which required surgery and put him out for the remainder of the campaign. The club points out, however, that the operation was a success and that Adam will be raring to go in 2008.
 
Announcing Robinson's capture for 2008 and 2009, Roughyeds' chief executive Chris Hamilton said the club was delighted to retain his services for the next two years. He added: "He showed us last season what he was all about -- a tough, uncompromising type of forward who likes doing the graft and the defensive work. In other words, he's just the type you need in a pack of forwards.
 
"He loved his time at Oldham last season, and both he and his agent have confirmed that he didn't want to go anywhere else. His agent said Adam hadn't even been talking to other clubs because there was only one place he wanted to be for the next two years and that was at Oldham.
 
"It's obviously nice to hear that because it's a tribute to everything Bill (chairman Bill Quinn) and the club is doing."
 
The Wakefield-born 21-year-old, a joiner by trade, spent five years at Wakefield, whom he joined on scholarship when he was 14. He ultimately spent wo years as a full-time pro in the Wildcats' Super League squad when Shane McNally was coach at Belle Vue.
 
A burning desire for more first-team rugby led him to Doncaster where, in 2006, he played in 22 of Doncaster's 29 games.
 
Speaking soon after signing for Oldham in 2007, Adam said: "When it was time for me to move on from Doncaster I talked to one or two clubs, but Deaks said a lot of good thilngs about Oldham and he basically sold the club to me."