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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"It's not a sport , you've told us many many times , it's a business'"
Surely you don’t need someone to explain to you its both. You’re apparently an adult
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"And yet nobody on this thread has suggested they should give up on expansion , just that it should be done differently , more successfully perhaps'"
Really? More successfully you say?
I have yet to hear anything from your flatcappness that looks remotely ‘more successful’ in relation to expansion. Just a long stream of nonsense ideas which boil down to two things, a long and pointless stay of expansion sides at a low level because you’re that naïve you believe that not selling lower league RL and lower league sides to expansion areas will prove RL cant be sold to those areas and Leigh wont be overtaken from them. And secondly give lots of money to lower league sides ( lower league sides meaning Halifax and leigh and formerly Widnes, not London, Sheffield, French Elite sides, definitely not Welsh lower league sides etc etc)
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| Quote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA"Surely you don’t need someone to explain to you its both. You’re apparently an adult'"
Well, you've banged the drum about it just being a business so often this last post is laughable. So now it's back to a sport AND a business. You're as flaky as a 99 
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| Quote littlerich="littlerich"Well, you've banged the drum about it just being a business so often this last post is laughable. So now it's back to a sport AND a business. You're as flaky as a 99
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A sport without the added edge of mattering if you're pants on the pitch - hence this years super league was over for half its clubs months ago!
What is the point in taking points off a club for administration if you reward them by keeping them in super league? Incentive that eh?
So yeah, just a business then. Bit like WWE
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| Quote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA"'"
Seems strange that you are happy to =#FF0000:3cqsiauddamage championship one with what you wouldn’t damage the championship
As there is no relegation at this minute from Championship 1 I doubt the other clubs would have a problem with a Crusaders club playing to the same rules as themselves , if you want to call it a parachute payment , then fine as long as it also precludes them from promotion at the expense of another club , you can call it what you want
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| Quote SmokeyTA:1ozhrkguQuote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA":1ozhrkgu'" :1ozhrkgu
Especially with your reference to low profile opposition (as if =#FF0000:1ozhrkguLeigh or Halifax are ‘high profile:1ozhrkgu) it seems as if you think that the people of Wales not being interested in following their team against towns they have never heard of in a new sport to them will prove something?'"
No I was reffering to any club outside SL as being ' low profile ' , but it seems you would want them playing in the Championships to different rules again , and you dont see this as a problem , so you want to make the same mistakes again , most people try to learn from them , you obviously dont
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| Quote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA"Really? More successfully you say?
I have yet to hear anything from your flatcappness that looks remotely ‘more successful’ in relation to expansion. Just a long stream of nonsense ideas which boil down to two things, a long and pointless stay of expansion sides at a low level because you’re that naïve you believe that not selling lower league RL and lower league sides to expansion areas will prove RL cant be sold to those areas and Leigh wont be overtaken from them. And secondly =#FF0000give lots of money to lower league sides ( lower league sides meaning Halifax and leigh and formerly Widnes, not London, Sheffield, French Elite sides, definitely not=#FF0000 Welsh lower league sides etc etc)'"
And yet this IS exactly what I have suggested , but I have suggested that they should not be allowed to profit ON the pitch because of this money
I would think that is quite fair , unlike yourself , who it seems wants certain clubs to be favoured both off and on the pitch by the RFL
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| Quote littlerich="littlerich"Well, you've banged the drum about it just being a business so often this last post is laughable. So now it's back to a sport AND a business. You're as flaky as a 99
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If you think I had said anything different then you're as dumb as a rock.
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"
As there is no relegation at this minute from Championship 1 I doubt the other clubs would have a problem with a Crusaders club playing to the same rules as themselves , if you want to call it a parachute payment , then fine as long as it also precludes them from promotion at the expense of another club , you can call it what you want'" You really arent making any sense at all. You want Crusaders to exist, but not if they can't be relegated from the championship, but you're happy for them not to be relegated from championship 1. You want them to play by the same rules as everyone else (Lets avoid the point about how many clubs in the championships are relying on overseas players and how many clubs are breaking salary caps, we wouldnt want you to look too much of a hypocritical fool would we?) even though they arent in the same position as everyone else (i wonder how leigh would be doing if they needed to pay a premium for players who had come through SL academies to move to join them) and you are happy for them to be funded by the RFL, but if they get a parachute payment that immediately precludes them from being promoted(and it also precludes them from playing by the same rules as everyone else)
So to some up, you want a crusaders club which cannot compete because of the salary cap, to play at the lowest professional level so that people can see the lowest level of professional rugby league, you want them to play by the same rules as everyone else but you are happy for them to not play by the same rules as everyone if it disadvantages them and you want them funded by the RFL but that self-same funding precludes them from moving forward.
This is Starbugs guaranteed successful approach to expansion. 
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| Quote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA"If you think I had said anything different then you're as dumb as a rock.'"
Diddums. So, to summarize please list who you think is to blame for the failure of Crusaders. I'll start and finish your list, you just fill in the rest.
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Away you go with all your bollax . . . .
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