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by ROGER HALSTEAD ADAM Robinson has aggravated a groin in training and is out of the Oldham side for Sunday's Carnegie Challenge Cup fifth-round tie at Dewsbury. With Luke Menzies and Ian Hodson cup-tied and ineligible, coach Steve Deakin recalls Simon Baldwin and Tommy Grundy, who had a run-out for about the first 25 minutes of last night's reserve-team game against Salford. Grundy is back in the second-row after missing only two senior games with a back problem, but Baldwin returns on the bench after a minor knee operation and an absence of 11 weeks. Matty Brooks, who also returned to action in the reserves last night after a similar absence for similar reasons, will travel to the Ram Stadium as 18th man. Team: O'Connor; St HIlaire, Halliwell, Nanyn, Onyango; Roden, Coyle; Boults, Joseph, Mervill, Goulden, Grundy, Roberts. Subs: Baines, Hoyle, Tamghart, Baldwin. Roughyeds have prepared well this week and last week's poor performance in a 38-26 win against Blackpool Panthers -- and the repercussions that followed --- have been put well and truly in the club's 'out' tray. Said Deaks: "This is a massive opportunity for the players to make history for the club by taking it into the quarter-finals of the Carneie Challenge Cup for the first time. Victory would plummet the club and the team on to a national stage and into the national media. "Opportunities like this do not come along very often for NL2 sides. Individually and collectively the boys can cover themselves in glory. The build-up has gone well. Last week's events are history now. We look ahead and we look forward -- and first up is a Challenge Cup tie at Dewsbury." |
