This decision will almost certainly be the death of our club.

The sad part is it seemed that this was done purposely.

We were one of the first clubs to put in our application but it took them until the day before franchises were announced to withdraw the submission. Pull the other one it has bells on it. Do they honestly think we believe it took them until the 11th hour to 'assess' finances? No, I don't believe that either. What it did do, however, was leave no time whatsoever for the RFL or anybody else connected with the club to seek alternatives.

Wrexham Village now have a club that has basically gone bust and a ground and Wrexham Football Club that are seemingly separate entities. They now have to offer Wrexham Supporters Trust the club for £1 that will pull on the heartstrings and hey presto they have a ground or more importantly the land under it to sell.

I could see it happening a while ago and asked the RFL, I think on a message on here among other places, to keep a very close eye on things. I'm not sure how they could have guarded against this but we have been well and truly shafted.

Well you haven't. Not by the RFL.

Unless you think the RFL were single handedly responsible for you not having any supporters in South or North Wales and losing most of your games in Bridgend then losing most of them in Wrexham

The Wrexham football fans have been shouting for months how badly the owners were running things....for some reason I think the Crusaders fans thought they were exempt from their shoddy business management. I'm sure the decision todaycame as no surprise to the Wrexham fc fans.

Who mentioned that the RFL did it you idiot?

It is clear that I meant we have been shafted by the owners.

Not at all.

Wrexham FC had an alternative in that they had £800,000 (estimate) in the supporters trust to make offers to buy the club whereas Crusaders didn't have a trust never mind any money in it.

We knew they were dodgy, I have posted here suggesting as such, we just didn't have too much of an alternative. I still think they'll take Wrexham out too one way or another. I can see them offering WFC without the ground to the trust for £1, as I've said earlier. Once this happens asset stripped and they can sell the ground to the highest bidder.

But yes you were , 3 years ago , that is when your fate was sealed

If we didn't get Super League 3 years ago then the club were gone anyway.

Samuel was not willing to finance the club beyond that year, and for another three, if we didn't get Super League.

As it was he got fed up with the club after a year of Super League but we would have gone under had we not been given a Super League place and that will be the case now.

Which just tells us it was a bad decision to set the thing up as they did in the first place

The only way a Welsh club will become sustainable and prosper is if it is funded centrally and openly from the RFL , and even now i'd take that if it was done properly , and openly

In all honesty we needed a sugar daddy like Quins.

If we had that we would come on leaps and bounds more than them but as it was it wasn't meant to be.

I won't turn my back on RL though. I'll still watch South Wales Scorpions and will try to get up the heartlands to see a few games over the season.

Believe it or not but a lot of Crusaders fans are considering following Catalans when they are playing in the UK. There is one positive and gave me a smile earlier when I read it even though I was feeling numb inside. I still am if the truth be told.

sad day for rugby league in wales!

I support expansion and dont wanna see an M62 competition so didnt wanna see them drop out.

Hope the kids in N Wales still stick with Rugby League!!

To be fair ,most clubs existed before the M62 was built.

The bigger question for me is how will this affect the welsh RL team ,will they still be playing in the 4 nations this year.

Since when did Crusaders RL become Wales RL in tournaments?

A few more interesting bits from Mark Bryant tweeted this evening. Sounds like the Crusaders have been a shambolic joke from start to finish.


markbryant81Mark Bryant
That's all from me tonight, need some sleep. That's 3 little bits of a maze of lies and unprofessionalism.

32 minutes ago


Ask @youngquest3 @tommylee6 @thacks30 about not getting there last months pay when the club went into admin.

37 minutes ago

markbryant81Mark Bryant


We thought keeping quite about what has gone on was in the best interest of the club,but clearly the owners had no interest in our futures.

41 minutes ago


markbryant81Mark Bryant


@GeraldMccarthy0 We have plenty more stories aye dude! Hopefully we can catch up soon old mate!

49 minutes ago


markbryant81Mark Bryant


The then owner promised them hush money and then wiped his hands of them once they were out of the country.

53 minutes ago

markbryant81Mark Bryant


While were on it, the 6 guys who were deported were treated like criminals but the club had full knowledge that they were here illegally.

54 minutes ago

markbryant81Mark Bryant


We didn't have to l pay our way to France in 09 but had to leave 6 guys behind cause the club knew they were on illegal visas.

1 hour ago

markbryant81Mark Bryant


Hmmmm, If only they knew all that has gone on at this club since 2009, might need a longer show though!