Such a shame for Keith [i"Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in [SL from the start"[/i Senior.

Oh dear, time to hang up the boots.

At least we now have a better idea of what the Widnes team will look like next season

He was right though.

Keith will still get a gig at Wakefield/Widnes/Cas/HKR/Quins.

Tait
Currier
Davies
Wright
Offiah
Myler
D. Hulme
Grima
McKenzie
Pyke
Sorensen
P. Hulme
Eyres

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I now once and for all do truly believe that Gotcha is the best troll of all time.

My sincere apologies for upsetting you so much. Fancy expressing an opinion on a internet forum. Had I known that was not the place, you can rest assured it would not have happened.

Now that you have given such a great reason to change that opinion, how do I go about removing my post.

He was right about it and I agreed with that assessment at the time. Unfortunately for him, his opinion back then has come right back to bite him on his now furious @rse.

The sequence of events may have been unpredictable but the result wasn't. When the Celtic Crusaders scarpered for their lives out of South Wales up to North Wales and renamed themselves Crusaders, that was the time for the RFL to pull the plug rather than bail them out to the tune of 700K. The expansion of SL into Wales had already failed and it was just a matter of time before the final execution. Situating a club just down the road from Widnes is hardly expansion.

If merger money had still been available last year like it was for Hudds/Sheff and Hull/Gateshead, I'm absolutely convinced that Widnes and Crusaders would have merged to form the Widnes Viking Crusaders in SL with most games played in Widnes and a few down the road in Wrexham. Another year on, and the merged entity would have become Widnes Vikings full stop. Expect more than a handful of the current Crusaders players to end up at Widnes next season.

We got there in the end via a different route and it cost 700K rather than over a million

Oh the irony..

I memory will stick will me regarding Keith Senior - he decision to play in the 2005 CC Final when he knew he wasn't fit.

Whilst he may not be greedy he is certainly selfish - that decision helped to prevent his team mates from winning a trophy that should have been within their compass.

His smugness about how they got rid of successive coaches speaks volumes for his character.

As the saying goes "What comes around goes around"

Excellent stuff

Given what else he achieved in a Leeds shirt, that seems roughly akin to remembering Sinfield's contributions solely based on his decision to run the penalty at the end of the 2003 final.

Let's not remember the 4 Grand Finals, 2 WCCs and 2 hubcaps we did win. Instead, let's remember the one we didn't win....