Quote ="port64"Clearly the current owner has money issues see www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport However aren't Wrexham just looking for a few more games ( to boost their own income ) Sky Sports and the RFL both like Newport Dai Watkins, the Crusaders' President and Newport RFC board member is looking at additional funding Iestyn Harris got the Welsh team playing some cracking rugby after just 2 weeks in charge 64 schools now play rugby League in South Wales The GB U18s captain is Mark Wool, who is from South Wales Why would anyone move the club away from South Wales ? Its all just starting for us with one of the best coaching teams in rugby league and we now have the Challenge Cup final and the Grand Final now in our sights watch out England, here we come'" Surely the title of this thread should be changed

Quote ="port64"Clearly the current owner has money issues see www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... nd-newport However aren't Wrexham just looking for a few more games ( to boost their own income ) Sky Sports and the RFL both like Newport Dai Watkins, the Crusaders' President and Newport RFC board member is looking at additional funding Iestyn Harris got the Welsh team playing some cracking rugby after just 2 weeks in charge 64 schools now play rugby League in South Wales The GB U18s captain is Mark Wool, who is from South Wales Why would anyone move the club away from South Wales ? Its all just starting for us with one of the best coaching teams in rugby league and we now have the Challenge Cup final and the Grand Final now in our sights watch out England, here we come'" Surely the title of this thread should be changed

The RFL are ' fretting ' news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 387114.stm

The RFL are ' fretting ' news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 387114.stm

Quote ="Starbug"The RFL are ' fretting ' news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 387114.stm'" Nice to see the RFL coming out with strong messages . I would have been better if than hadnt said anything.

Quote ="Starbug"The RFL are ' fretting ' news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 387114.stm'" Nice to see the RFL coming out with strong messages . I would have been better if than hadnt said anything.

Cheers much appreciated, it's not nice people picking over the bones when your still barely alive in the body.

Quote ="Starbug"The RFL are ' fretting ' news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 387114.stm'" The RFL will report "in due course". Sounds familiar.

Quote ="Starbug"The RFL are ' fretting ' news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 387114.stm'" The RFL will report "in due course". Sounds familiar.

I'm sure the RFL will just bail them out one way or another mate.

Traffy.......I'm not trying to trivialise this whatsoever......

But basically all thats happened is Celtic Crusaders have changed their name and are considering playing more fixtures in Wrexham.

No one has died.

No one has been beaten up

The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse and a plague of locusts haven't decended upon Newport.....although looking at Rodney Parade...... maybe they have.......


I have always liked you, but I feel you are being a little dramatic here champ

Awww thanks Bazza













I'll put that in the bin with the rest of the garbage

Come on Traffy.

'Turn that frown upside down' as I always say to my little nephew back in Burraneer when he starts getting a little cranky with me





Seriously though.

The Club havent folded.

Footy is still alive in Wales.

The club needs your support....and others like you...to keep going.


Don't turn your back on them

It's actually TAFFY,you $hit spouting in-bred convict doylem.

I'm sure he means Traffy as in short for Traffic.

Totally agree with the rest of it though.

Quote ="crucrucrusaders"I'm sure he means Traffy as in short for Traffic. Totally agree with the rest of it though. '" news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 387248.stm I see a similar thing to the London Broncos situation. Club runs up big debts No fans Club changes name Club relocates

Quote ="crucrucrusaders"I'm sure he means Traffy as in short for Traffic. Totally agree with the rest of it though. '" news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 387248.stm I see a similar thing to the London Broncos situation. Club runs up big debts No fans Club changes name Club relocates

To tell the truth I'm not even going to bring that back up Bill , it hardly seems relevant any more , I just hope the RFL sort something out for the fans and the junior players that have ' broken ranks ' and thrown there all into the idea of a club in South wales

Aportioning blame is no longer the issue , there are no winners in this sorry tale anymore , only losers it would seem

Aye,you are quite right Starbug.We can bitch about it and try to get the last word as much as we like but thats the bottom line.

Article in The Mirror today includes



Perhaps an RFL announcement imminent though ?

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It'll be fine.
Plenty of clubs have debts and whatever will be will be.
Is there no nice rich people in wales who wouldnt mind a hobby other than hitting a ball round a field? ..oh wait

What I don't get about the ground issue is, I thoguht they'd already agreed a deal to play at Newport?

I did too. I bought 4 season tickets on the strenght of it.

2 of them are childrens season tickets who wouldn't be able to do the travelling to Wrexham on any kind of regular basis either.

Samuels wants his money back and the club need a new backer. Wrexham FC are one of those who may be willing to put cash in.

So Samuels wants his money back from this new backer, plus the new backer is also expected to take on the huge debts and there is no guarantee of SL after 2011. Unfortunately unless he gets that guarantee he'd be crazy, if he does get that promise from our esteemed leaders then they really must think we are stupid.

I'm sure Samuels is a litigious man, so I'll keep this careful. But he strikes me as a person who I wish we'd never let anywhere near our game.

TBF the RFL should tell Samuels to take a running jump. He clearly has either A) shafted the Crusaders or B) is a very very poor businessman if he isn't going to stick around more than one season. I'd tell him he either rights off his debts and lets someone else take over the club or withdraw the clubs license and let someone else start up fresh in Sth Wales and issue them with a license. I can't belive the licenses don't actually stipulate that they are for a certain geographical area.

I think history shows he is quite a shrewd guy when it comes to maximising income from sport

Would anyone advocate we write off the crusaders and allow someone else to come in and directly take over their license, in effect bypass Samuels completely and allow someone else to take up a South Wales club, if they wanted they could take Noble and the lot with them

Thats a fantastic idea.

So in effect you would like to close a club that has lost money since the day it began because of the location and lack of support and replace it with an identical product in exactly the same area?

Ever considered pitching that one to the Dragons Den show on telly?