www.crusadersrfl.com/article.php?id=3606 to those mocking the RFL saying they are ruining the game, this shows just how wrong you people are together with wales making the quad nations, hosting the millenium magic again and hosting quad and world cup games its all looking good

www.crusadersrfl.com/article.php?id=3606 to those mocking the RFL saying they are ruining the game, this shows just how wrong you people are together with wales making the quad nations, hosting the millenium magic again and hosting quad and world cup games its all looking good

It doesn't really though, does it dally?

This is just one incident of something going right. It doesn't really show anything on it's own. All you're going to achieve by starting a thread like this is getting a bunch of anti-RFL people to reply with tonnes of incidents were the RFL have screwed up instead of getting the replies this kind of event deserves: a congratulations and excitement that the game is growing in Wales.

But whatever makes you feel better.

great news obviously.

but what has this got to do with the rfl and how the WC's have been run for the best part of 5 seasons?.

Who are they planning to play?

Good to see as a start, A Jnr league and a schools league would be next steps!

In fact if the Crusaders hadn't had such financial strife the RFL could have been using its money to get kids interested in the game, get some RFL development officers employed there, get 100 kids signed up to form a jnr league and convinced 6 schools to take up the game by offering them coaching and equipment.

Last time I checked, very many areas with no SL team had youth teams.

Also 700k would have paid for the start-up of a lot of community sides. In terms of value for money, it would almost have been better to give 700 rugby union players £1k each if they agree to play 5 games of RL.

Crusaders' future is very much in the balance and I'm afraid that it doesn't look particularly good.

There is another side setting up in Flintshire and Chester Gladiators had a youth side (until the Midlands Junior League became "Midlands only"), Warrington had a Cheshire Cats side drawn from non-RL parts of Cheshire playing in the Midlands league as well.

A Cheshire / North East Wales junior might work.

You think there aren't already development officers in Wales

if its up to the RFL not the champ. clubs because the RFL will have killed them all off as per its secret plan

all the developments in wales have been influenced / affected / caused by the existance of celtic crusaders / wrexham crusaders

many people said it was a laughing stock the RFL ensuring the club continued on, i disagreed

the developments in wales suggest what the RFL has done were indeed the best course of actio

this is why expansion teams are important

Are you completely nuts , I asked a simple question , ie , what competition they are going to play in ?

No they are not

Once they had given them a SL franchise they had no option to do all they can to make a success of it , although I still dont think it will work in Wrexham

' The developments in Wales ' could all have been done without a SL club in Bridgend or Wrexham

Yes they are , as long as they are a success , up to now they havent been