Starbug, why do you ask for the RFL to be out in the open when people like yourself will make up things regardless?

If we had a book of blank cheques from the RFL as you suggest earlier in this thread do you think we would be in this mess currently.

I thought the idea of Franchising or Licensing was to select the 14 clubs that had their houses in order.

Completely disagree with this... it seems as though unfortunately the club is being hampered by things that went on under the previous regime.
I think Crusaders have done a lot of good this year and have converted me from a naysayer to someone that would like to see them prosper. They've had some bad attendances but they've shown fantastic potential with some really good crowds.
I hope they come out of this.

To quote Ian Roberts from this morning's North Wales 'Daily Post':
'We're still hpoeful of playing rugby(sic) here next season and are negotiating with the Rugby Football League.
We are trying our best, it's a very difficult business to be involved in, especially in the current climate.'
This is a bit different from yesterday's 99% sure. Also Wrexham FC's up for sale but not Wrexham Village.
Do any of our Widnesian contributers know if there's any activity in their club's admin that could indicate whether they're on alert to be parachuted into SL next season?

www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/spo ... -27596732/ Advent of licencing, clubs given 3 years. So how do the RFL justify 3 clubs all getting one year each. Celtic Crusaders, then Crusaders, now Welsh Crusaders IF they can find a backer

www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/spo ... -27596732/ Advent of licencing, clubs given 3 years. So how do the RFL justify 3 clubs all getting one year each. Celtic Crusaders, then Crusaders, now Welsh Crusaders IF they can find a backer

I know why not , merge, change their name to Widnes and move just a few more miles down the road, Keep Cas Wakey and Salford in SL and everyones happy

Top class journalism here - Both of five income sources

Not sure I'd put too much value on the rest of what he writes.

oh gawd, rlfans is going to explode when they find out that the "Welsh Crusaders" are going to be given a franchise lol. Problem is, the crusaders were fantastic this season, had everything in order. Now "old debts" are rearing their ugly head. Leighton samuel is a scum bag, just ask the celtic Warriors supporters what they think of that .

I think i might just sit back and watch the carnage.

So, what’s the plan then?

Are they going to do a London, and set up a new company, walking away from their debts?

I wouldn’t mind being a fly on the wall when the RFL try to get the other clubs CEO’s to back the plan.

Maybe Lewis’s tack will be ‘back the new club or you won’t be considered for a licence in 2012’.

haha you guys better start running to the hills!!
NO one respond! then they can bicker between themselves.. it will be a massacre

It could be a similar scenario to the voting when London went to the wall. If it doesn't go the way they want the first time, they will have a quiet word and try again

Correct me if I am wrong but haven't the RFL just told Blackpool they cannot do this? Basically saying same club or no club! Yet for Crusaders they'll fully support it...WTF?

The difference between now and when the Broncos' holding company folded and reappeared as a new company the next day, is that now there are rules and sanctions to punish it …