[Dick Jones]

SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:08 pm  

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Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:24 pm  

Nope...

As we've seen with Wakey nothing will probably come from this. There will probably be some agreement on payments and that will be that.

We can wait a further 12 months.

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:04 am  

We've been building towards Super League 2012. I wouldn't want an early entry.

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:02 am  

Would completely mess up our preperations, and when we'd inevitably finish last would give an opportunity for our many detractors to sling mud at us.

Thanks but no thanks. Better for super league to have a bye round than mess us up just to fill in for Crusaders.

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:29 am  

Chris Dalton wrote:

Would completely mess up our preperations, and when we'd inevitably finish last would give an opportunity for our many detractors to sling mud at us.

Thanks but no thanks. Better for super league to have a bye round than mess us up just to fill in for Crusaders.

Would agree totally with that! Our budgeting and planning (sponsors / contracts etc) are based on Championship 2011. Interesting point, have SL fixtures (bar MM) been released yet?

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:07 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

Would completely mess up our preperations, and when we'd inevitably finish last would give an opportunity for our many detractors to sling mud at us.

Thanks but no thanks. Better for super league to have a bye round than mess us up just to fill in for Crusaders.

We can wait till 2012 to do that Although I suspect you'll have a hard from opposing fans for most of next season in the championship

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:59 pm  

DemonUK wrote:

We can wait till 2012 to do that Although I suspect you'll have a hard from opposing fans for most of next season in the championship

If we're the ones promoted I wont care. I'll welcome the moaning, it will be funny.

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:12 pm  

I’m happy for the club to wait until 2012. I think it would be better all round.


I have a bit of sympathy for the Wrexham Crusaders here. They have a better stadium and better crowds than CC had, and they really do seem to be taking to the game there. I work on the Wirral and there are a lot of Welsh lads there and a few actually now go to watch RL in Wrexham, whereas they didn’t watch it at all before. They took 800 fans away to their play-off game as well, which is very encouraging and shows what a good idea it is to expand closer to the heartland areas.

The stone dragging them down seems to be from their previous guise as the Celtic Crusaders. It’s the RFL’s mess this. They rushed this club through, with little thought as to whether they were actually equipped to cope with Super League and put trust in a man who had a previous record of simply dumping rugby clubs.

What a shame that the promising Wrexham Crusaders are saddled with the mess created by the RFL and Samuel. Hopefully it will get sorted for them.

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:51 pm  

Pepe wrote:

The stone dragging them down seems to be from their previous guise as the Celtic Crusaders. It’s the RFL’s mess this. They rushed this club through, with little thought as to whether they were actually equipped to cope with Super League and put trust in a man who had a previous record of simply dumping rugby clubs.

I have fond memories of being pilloried and called all the names under the sun for sharing that opinion back in 2008. Though I take no pleasure in saying 'I told you so'.

Re: SL 2011 for WIDNES? : Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:55 pm  

If Crusaders go bump I'd suggest that no team drops out of SL at the end of next season....