OLDHAM Roughyeds will play ALL of their home league games at Boundary Park in the 2009 season.

The club hopes to have a strong squad under the command of new Kiwi boss Tony Benson in an all-out bid to win promotion at the third time of asking.

After NL2 Grand Final defeats in both 2007 and 2008, Oldham are determined to get out of the newly-branded Co-operative Championship One.

All home games up to and including the visit of Hunslet Hawks on Sunday, May 17, will be played at Boundary Park, but the ground will then be closed for pitch improvements until Roughyeds reappear on Sunday, July 19, when Keighley Cougars will visit. In the two months in between, Benson’s men will play Swinton Lions away on May 24, York City Knights away on June 28 and Workington Town away on July 5.

The period when Boundary Park is closed will see the Carnegie Challenge Cup quarter-finals, the Northern Rail Cup quarter-finals, semi-finals and final (at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool on July 12) played. As such, it remains to be seen whether Roughyeds will be involved in knock-out rugby during the summer.

"It goes without saying that we are pleased to get all our home league games at Boundary Park," said chief executive Chris Hamilton. "In order to do that we have had to reschedule the games against Blackpool Panthers and London Skolars."

Blackpool now come to Boundary Park on Sunday, March 15, which means Roughyeds and the Panthers start their campaign in Co-operative Championship One a week sooner than everybody else.

As a result of these changes the Roughyeds go from May 24 to June 28 without a league game, but they could be involved in sudden-death cup rugby depending on how they fare in the earlier rounds of the Challenge Cup and in the group stages of the Northern Rail Cup, in which they are paired with Co-operative Championship teams Widnes Vikings and Sheffield Eagles, as well as Championship One sides Rochdale and Hunslet.

The season kicks off on Sunday, February 8, with the visit of derby rivals Hornets to Boundary Park in the NRC, followed on Friday night, February 13, by the tough trip to Widnes Vikings.