AFTER their 32-6 mauling by Keighley Cougars, Stu Littler’s Oldham Rugby League Club will be looking to come up with a much-improved show against Hunslet at the South Leeds Stadium on Sunday (3pm ko).

Players and coaching stuff had what head coach Littler described as a “good review” of the Keighley game at training on Tuesday.

“There was a lot of honesty,” he said, “and while it was not about finding fault or playing the blame-game, we identified one or two areas for big improvement, one of which was our performance at the ruck, both on defence and attack.

“We were dominated in those areas and it’s something we need to look at.

“Nobody goes out on to the pitch to struggle, but there are times, and the Keighley game was one of them, when we can be a bit smarter and approach a game differently.

“Luckily, we have an early chance to come out fighting and put right last week’s wrongs.”

Littler will have to make at least one change because right-wing Tommy Brierley had the misfortune to break a leg near the end of the Keighley game.

He sees specialists at a fracture clinic in Yorkshire next week, but at best he is going to be out for several weeks.

Roughyeds will also have to be party-poopers to win in South Leeds, given that Hunslet are billing the game as a Geoff Gunney Celebration Day. They will have an emotional ceremony before kick-off in which they will name the main stand after the great man.

Gunney, who died in 2018 at the age of 84, was awarded the MBE for his services to Rugby League in 1970.

Hunslet, for whom he made 579 appearances and scored 125 tries between 1951 and 1973, was his only club. As a second-row forward, he was capped 11 times by Great Britain and was widely recognised as one of the best forwards of his time.

Can Oldham spoil the hoedown ? They can, but they will have to play, collectively and individually, far better than they did against Cougars when the only players to emerge with reputations intact were full-back Owen Restall and sub forward Jordan Andrade

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