MAJOR work has been completed at Oldham’s training base, Melrose, chairman Bill Quinn confirmed this week, writes Kasey Smith.
One of the club’s main aims is to establish a state-of-the-art facility which will leave a lasting legacy, serving the first team as well as its pathway squads and forthcoming women’s team, cementing the base as a vibrant community hub.
And Quinn, speaking on Roughyeds’ in-house magazine show The Boundary Line, revealed significant investment has been pumped into the facility ahead of Oldham’s first season in the championship since 2021.
“Melrose has had hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on it,” said the Roughyeds chairman.
“It is fabulous there now and it will only get better until the day we have facilities that are up there with the best in Super League.
“What we are building takes time and what we have done in the 19 months we have been in charge is fantastic, but we will never stop.”
Sean Long and his men return to field training tonight, having returned last week initially doing light gym work.
Oldham’s early return, some six weeks before their competitors are due to report back, is designed to keep them in peak physical condition across the 2025 season.
To aid their efforts, the club drafted in former player Joe McNicholas, now Penrith Panthers’ Physical Performance Coordinator, to deliver a session to Long’s men.
McNicholas made over 100 appearances for Oldham in the late 90s and early 2000s and put the Oldham squad through a gruelling fitness session.
The current Panthers side, who have won four consecutive NRL Grand Finals in Australia, are widely regarded as one of the all-time greats.
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