Taken from SportingLife.com

***please note strong language in fourth par***

SENIOR FURY AT CRUSADERS LICENCE WITHDRAWAL

Former Great Britain centre Keith Senior has revealed his fury at the decision of his future club Crusaders to pull out of Super League.

The 35-year-old had signed a two-year contract with the Welsh outfit after 12 years with Leeds Rhinos.

The veteran, whose current season has been ended by a knee injury, now faces an uncertain future after it was announced this morning Crusaders had withdrawn their Super League licence application.

Senior tweeted: "Crusaders have just f***** me over what a b*****d joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious."

Senior's outburst reflects the surprise with which this morning's announcement by the RFL has taken the whole sport.

Wrexham-based Crusaders have had a difficult three years in Super League but were widely expected to be retained in the competition at the expense of Wakefield.

The RFL say they were informed only last night of Crusaders' withdrawal, just before they themselves were to decide which 13 clubs would join Widnes in the 14-team top division for 2012-14.

As well as signing Senior, Crusaders had also tied Wales rugby union legend Gareth Thomas to a new contract.

Crusaders chief executive Rod Findlay said: "This has not been an easy decision but after a lengthy and exhaustive examination of the club's finances, our view is that Crusaders is not sustainable as a Super League club at this stage."

The development will also raise question marks over the futures of other notable players such as Michael Witt and Jarrod Sammut, as well as coach Iestyn Harris.

the thing that was most striking to me is the way that the speccy-man-who-cant-talk-in-public ended the announcement.

Something along the lines of... "we will talk to crusaders about their possible inclusion in super league" (of course may not be entirely accurate)

suggests to me this has ed off the RFL who wanted rid of Wakefield.

Not really. They could have just put Fax in.

Although I articulated it poorly, my point pertained to the fact that the RFL look stupid (expansion-wise)and have pumped money into crusaders. Plus there was the foreign players issue.

It was not that they have a beef against wakefield. Just they seem to really really want to keep crusaders.

I think that they will still bend over backwards in an attempt to keep them in super league. I figure it is far from over.

He actually said 'we will talk to crusaders about their possible participation in the championship'. Can't see that happening though, i think they've gone for good myself.

I get the feeling the RFL will wash their hands of Crusaders, now.
They've only been existance for a handfull of years, and they FAST-tracked them into SL, only for them to

Go into administration
Abuse the Visa system
withdraw their license at the 11th hour
made monkey's out of high profile people (to the sporting world) Harris, Thomas and now Senior
generally fail to live upto expectations.

Using a really 5H1T3 analogy (with tongue firmly in cheek, from the times I've seen it), it's a bit like Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth. No matter how many times "R Terry" disgraces himself, she always forgives him, until "R Terry" pushes his luck too far, and Vera will no longer forgive him. This will be the RFL's 'Vera moment' (told you it was a 5h1te analogy ).

One thing still puzzles me, tho

Brian Noble, very successful SL era coach, goes there (maybe with a little encouragement from the RFL) and they overacheive in their first season together, and get to the play-offs. He then jacks the job in immediately, with no other job to go to (save summarising on TV).......did he know something?