I wondered when the third chuckle brother would appear.

Reckon you could trim your wage bill and not do worse on-field. You have some star players, but you also have some imports that should be replaceable by developing a player or two from your academy. I wouldn't make it a priority, but if you can't afford it, you can't afford it.
Clearly there a big things going on in Wales, they've leapfrogged France in a couple years of being in the top flight, despite the better results of the Catalans, that shows the great depth of a Rugby Nation. If they can tap into that, converting it to SL standard players, they'll be flying.

Not only the developments in Wales but also the huge growth of teams and players in London, the success of the French players in the Catalans team, the growth , despite occasional hiccups, of the summer conference ( three countries no less ), the possible/probable expansion of championship one from the top tier of the summer conference, the beating of the Aussies at youth level are huge,massive improvements from the past and show, despite what many naysayers on these boards claim, that RL is on the verge of unprecendented success.

If you also look at the number of teams now playing internationals and forming their own leagues, I would say that RL has never been more popular or widespread in its history.

I am old enough to remember when BARLA was formed there was only amateur rugby league in the North and that had shrunk to a pitifully small number of teams. No wonder we fell behind the Aussies and have yet to recover. Despite many remaining problems, I think the future could be very bright indeed and not only in Wales.

Crusaders-best supported sports club in North Wales.

YOU MUST BE JOKING! Put the Welsh domestic champions against the French Elite champions and lets see what happens. In fact, put the Welsh champions against the bottom of the Elite league and lets see what happens....

Lets be honest there only competition is a conference football team.

Why don't people just realise that RL is not very popular in Wales and get over it?

Oh look another comment from Bazza designed to provoke reaction. Do you not get any other attention that you need to seek it out on here Baz?

You're right. But the problem is that, sadly, so is he.

Yep you are right, just as well bin the lot rather than encourage it yeah? I couldn't even be d to watch the game on TV before the Crusaders and for a few years when the challenge cup was in Cardiff thought that it was 'quaint' to see all the people with their different shirts. How stupid I was not to realise there was a great game there on my doorstep. Caught the bug when my son played for his school in a tag game as a curtain raiser to a Crusaders Featherstone game and haven't looked back (even though tomorrow night I'll get back home at 1.30 am following a 250 mile round trip for the home game)

Phipps is purely a wind up merchant who has nothing to contribute other than cheap shots at everything, he knocks the place where people live, the teams people support but refuses to name either for himself as that would allow people to comment back.

Meaningful discussion yes please, crap from Phipps no thanks.

Well said Traffic, and I think he's from Leeds.
Barry was at least a better persona, Phipps is just rubbish.

C- must try harder

I am right and deep down people like Traffic know it.

I doubt whether he has ever lived in Wales to be perfectly honest.


There is only one code of rugby that matters in Wales and it's got 15 players in each team.