What will be of the Crusaders? : Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:13 pm  

Personally gutted, feels as if I have lost my club.. but I wont bore you with a white flag speach. Just want your thoughts of what will happen to us as i'm becoming bored of running through the possibilities in my head.

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:34 pm  

Can't see past folding. Tweets from players confirm £400,000 in missing pension payments that in likelihood won't be honoured by the club, no idea if players will be paid to see out the season, horrific treatment of club staff in general by directors... it just can't hold up. Disgraceful, and a very sad day for RL.

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:44 pm  

Well i say good riddance to rl in wales. It won't and never will catch on. Lets put this absurd pathetic publicity stunt to bed once and for all.

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:24 am  

Fold....otherwise they would have been in SL2012 IMO

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:59 am  

Could they not be merged with Wakefield, relegated and a proper club like Halifax promoted?

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:26 am  

Apparently the club would need gates of 1500/2000 to run in the Championship, which ain't gonner happen, so bye-bye would appear to be the result of all this.

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:49 am  

Merge with south wales.as a result of this the are entitled to double the funding and automatically get a place in the championship.then in 3 years time they will be pushed back into SL ahead of clubs with far better set ups just to fail for a third time.wood and Lewis are destroying our game

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:55 am  

Welcome to Rugby League, can you see past the mess?

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:10 am  

I really hope that the club can continue, whether that's in CC or CC1. It's been mooted that the Supporters Club want to establish a community run club.

Hope that's the case as it's a big blow for RL in Wales right before they are due to be in the 4Nations and co-host the 2013 RLWC and with the hard development & community work done in N Wales I hope a RL club can remain there.

Fact is the club where too quickly fast tracked to SL and where drove into the ground by poor finances and awful owners...

Re: What will be of the Crusaders? : Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:53 am  

As i've posted elsewhere.

Crusaders should have worked although Moss and co put pay to that. After a good season last year they then shift games to Friday which equals a drop in gates. The mess moss and co got Wrexham fc in has led to those potenial fans boycotting Cru games.

And we all know the reason behind yesterday decision. They want to sell the ground to build flats on. They are messing around with Wrexham supporters trust leading to which that Wrexham & Crusaders will be wound up in the next few weeks.

There is nowhere else in the area that could host super league in the future. Champtionship games yes at a push.