And how did that come about? Oh yes, but London Broncos had the odd debt or 2... quote from the BBC "The club went into liquidation with debts of around £3m."

The club owed 2 people.
The Inland Revenue and David Hughes. David Hughes offered to swallow his debt if the IR let the Broncos pay back the 1.5 million over a period of time. The IR refused, the club folded and the rest is history.......
fail to see you bringing this up has any relevance to the thoery that Harlequins Rugby League are not a thriving club. They have no debts...at all. No overdraft, no loans...just a very patient chairman.
Are you saying it's not fair that a business was allowed to fold, reinvent itself and not have to pay what it owed? If so, I would suggest you take that up with the Inland Revenue....they were offered payment but declined and the other SL chairmen who voted for the broncos to stay. I am sure they had their reasons (1.2 million of them)icon_wink.gif

Most other teams in superleague have signed domestic players for next season but to my knowledge Crusaders haven't even tried. It looks like they have no intnetion to try and reduce the number of overseas players they have. They are allowed far more overseas players than heartland clubs and with everyone else having to reduce their overseas numbers by 1 next season it could be an even more unlevel playing field next season!

Well done. Hope you enjoy the experience.

2 of the cas players listed have over 150 appearances (huby and shenton)
Westerman has played more than a 100 games.
Owen who wasnt playing last night has made 72 appearances after missing most of the seasons through injury.
thompson has played 15 games this year after playing twice last year.
walker played 7 games this year (debut season)
arundel played 8 after one game before this season.
milner played 4 games this year after making his debut in the back end of the season.
Holmes played 4 games this season playing in castlefords strongest position in his debut season.
massey played 2 games but has missed most of the season through injury.
davies played 1 game but again missed a big chunk of the season through injury and was behind holmes in the pecking order.

so to summarise shenton, huby and owen played in every game they were fit to play in.
thomspon played in more than 50% of the games this season
arundel and walker played in about 25% of the games this season.
milner played in 3 of the 6 games since making his debut,
holmes played 4 games in a position we aready have snitch, jones, widders, westerman, davies, clayton and ferres to play in.

Dyer and hanbury arent welsh by the way.

As i said on another thread i have nothing against crusaders just adressing the points you have made in this post.

To Spongolium!! i am a Wakefield supporter through thick and thin and was actually wanting Cas in the play offs! Yes CAS! There isnt a level playing field anymore in super league and until there is it will be the same corrupt bag of ***** it has been for years. Wake up and smell the coffee and just admit the team you support are a manufactured and paid for team created by Red Hall! you blinkered fool !!!!

Compare the two teams that played on saturday.

Castleford Tigers

McGoldrick - Born Australia
Dixon - Born England (Hull)
Shenton - Born England (Castleford)
Ferres - Born England (Castleford)
Wainwright - Born England (Leeds)
Widders - Born Australia
ChaseBorn - New Zealand
Sargent - Born Australia
Hudson - Born England (Leeds)
Higgins - Born England (Doncaster)
Jones - Born England (Wigan)
Snitch - Born England (Hull)
Westerman - Born England (Castleford)
Huby - Born England (Castleford)
Milner - Born England (Castleford)
Walker - Born England (Leeds?)
Arundel - Born England (Castleford)

Crusaders

Schifcofske- Born Australia
Dyer - Born Australia
Martin - Born Australia
Mellars - Born New Zealand
Youngquest - Born Australia
Sammut - Born Australia
Hanbury - Born Australia
O'Hara - Born Australia
Withers - Born Australia
Bryant - Born Australia
Hauraki - Born New Zealand
Chan - Born Australia
Lupton - Born England
Lee - Born England
James - Born England
Peek - Born Australia
Winternstein - Born Australia

Id just like to ask how anybody can honestly call this an achievment...

You could create a team from say Hartlepool, bring in 17 foreign players and when they get below mid table call it an amazing achievment

Noble has achieved, the whole club has not and will not until it produces its own players. with the background in rugby the country has it should be producing platers instead of importing every player it has.

The old give it time argument is a bit of a crappy cop out also, they have been playing rugby of all forms in wales as long as most SL clubs have existed.

What i can see here is Crusaders are a team full of 3rd rate aussies who finished 8th and Castleford are a team full of 3rd rate Englishman who finished 9th.What's the problem

you couldnt make this amount of crap up. Changing allegiance? Never heard anything like it.

Have Crusaders broken any rules, any rules whatsoever?!

Christ, the impatience of the typical Rugby League fan is shocking, Crusaders have been in Wrexham for ONE SEASON, make the top 8 and are being slated for having too many Aussies and the like? Give it time!

At the end of the day, this will only help, excellent chance for the marketing to sell a top 8 RL team.

And so much for the great Wakey-Cas rivalry...

Not really, full time pro RL has not existed in Wales for a while, only at part time level in the RL Conference.

And you know the difference between the RLC and Super League.