Profile

Mike Elliott arrived at the club, as a seventeen year old, from Blaina in South Wales, making his debut against Wakefield in October, 1962. Although it would be a few more years before he was a first team regular, that match was the start of a seventeen year association with the club.

Mike played occasionally in the centre, but will be best remembered as a right wing threequarter and has the distinction of playing with more centre partners than any other winger in the history of the club. On six occasions (twice shared) he was the leading try scorer in a season for Oldham, which is a club record and his overall total of 153 touchdowns is third behind Alan Davies and Syd Rix on the all time club list. He has made more appearances than any other threequarter, with only Martin Murphy, Jack Read and Joe Ferguson having played more times for the “Roughyeds”.

His final match was against Hull on May 7th, 1979. The Humbersiders had to win to complete the season with a 100% league record. This they did, but only after Oldham had put up a tremendous fight before going down 5 – 10. Mike, who ironically played left centre in the game, was made captain for the day.