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by ROGER HALSTEAD
 
KEEN and long-standing Roughyeds fans Mike and Sue Kivlin have cause to celebrate this weekend after winning the monthly £500 first prize in the Five Alive lottery with their joint number FA/047.
 
Little did they know, when they drove to Castleton on Thursday night to watch the Roughyeds Reserves play Hornets, that they would be hitting the Five Alive jackpot the following day.
 
All that remains now is for Steve Deakin's men to do the business against their old derby foes tomorrow (Sunday) at Boundary Park and it will have been quite a weekend for the Kivlins, who have watched and supported Oldham -- both vocally and in a variety of more practical ways --- for many years.
 
John McAndrew, the very first punter to sign up for Five Alive --- hence his number of FA/001 --- won the second prize of two places in the hospitality suite at a forthcoming home match.
 
And the third prize, a £25 voucher for the club shop, was won by Dave McGealey of Oldham Community Radio fame (FA/061), who does match commentaries on the Roughyeds and regularly informs his listeners about daily news items coming out of the club.
 
Entry to Five Alive costs £5 a week and it provides vital funding for the club while offering members a wide range of benefits as well as the chance to win £500 every month. One of the main features of membership is a quarterly luncheon, complete with either guest speaker or a senior member of the club doing a questions-and-answers session. The last two lunches have taken place at Marios in Yorkshire Street and have proved extremely popular.
 
Five Alive is the sister lottery of the £1 a week Club Cash scheme, which is equally supportive of the Roughyeds and which includes many local people who don't watch the team but who, nevertheless, feel inclined to support one of their home-town institutions which they would love to see flourish not only for the benefit of the club, but also the town.
 
The catchment area is a large one which covers all districts of the borough from Saddleworth and Moorside down to Failsworth and from High Crompton and Thornham all the way down to Bardsley and the Ashton border.
 
Latest weekly winners -- please note that the Club Cash draw is WEEKLY --- are as follows: £300, Mrs Gadsby of High Crompton (B8200); £100, M Willerton of Diggle (A8180); £10 runners-up prizes, T Hughes of Wigan (B4003); D Service of Springhead (D3588); S Ray of Oldham (A3502); M Coop, c/o Church Inn, Waterhead (C1446); W Quinn, c/o Oldham RLFC (C3935).