Why was Bridgend chosen as Celtics home???? : Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:26 am  

Cardiff. Population around 320,000

Swansea. Population around 230,000


Bridgend. Population around 130,000


So why was Bridgend chosen as the nucleus for the next superleague club??


Was it cost??

Did the club get a big grant off the local authority to set up there?

Had the people who set Celtic up done their homework and figured that a lot of the 130,000 people in the immediate area would turn up week in week out??

Was Bridgend formerly a big Rugby League hotspot??


Why on earth didnt they set Celtic Crusaders up in Cardiff or Swansea to start with??

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:53 am  

Because the Bridgend area had been left without a Union side when the WRU closed the Celtic Warriors & the small fact that when we were set up Leighton Samuel owned the ground.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:21 am  

DAIHAPPY wrote:

Because the Bridgend area had been left without a Union side when the WRU closed the Celtic Warriors & the small fact that when we were set up Leighton Samuel owned the ground.

That's half true. Bridgend still has its union side, Bridgend Ravens, it no longer has a Celtic / Magners league side.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:46 am  

Hedgehog King wrote:

That's half true. Bridgend still has its union side, Bridgend Ravens, it no longer has a Celtic / Magners league side.

My mistake - I should have said "Top Flight Union Side"

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: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:47 am  

I was under the impression that Bridgend wasn't 'chosen' as Crusaders home – any more than, say, Wigan was 'chosen' as Wigan's home or Cronulla as Cronulla's home.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:26 pm  

Half price ale compared to up here, decent hotels, roast hogs, bar along the terrace you can rest your arm on & watch the game, and beautiful dirty ladies in cheap clubs for afters.

Don't you bloody dare go anywhere else.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:32 pm  

It seemed like a good idea at the time ?

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:36 pm  

Steve51 wrote:

Half price ale compared to up here, decent hotels, roast hogs, bar along the terrace you can rest your arm on & watch the game, and beautiful dirty ladies in cheap clubs for afters.

Don't you bloody dare go anywhere else.

Try living with it

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:59 pm  

DAIHAPPY wrote:

Because the Bridgend area had been left without a Union side when the WRU closed the Celtic Warriors & the small fact that when we were set up Leighton Samuel owned the ground.

Thank you.

Thats the main reason I think.

: Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:31 am  

ajhcrusader wrote:

Try living with it

I think I'd loose a kidney within a week...

Seriously we had such a good time we're thinking of bringing a few to your last game Sept 5th. Is it at Bridgend or Newport ?