I bet Silverwood is pi**ing himself laughing

Wouldn't the players have signed A super League contract??? and wouldn't that be a get out clause in its self?

You've got to feel for the players though, but have to say I'm happy to see Wakefield given a respite. Some enthusiatic young British lads there, that will be very happy with the outcome today.

Unfortunately, one team was going to be the receiver of the bad news..

The Crusaders won't be playing in the championship next year.

He isn't the only one to make his feelings known, a lot of Crusaders players are posting stuff similar to this on twitter. I do feel he has every right to be angry and I feel sorry for the fans and the players.
Although I have to admit, I was pleased for Wakey, and I wouldn't be surprised if they offer him a contract.

Gareth Thomas said on Radio5 last night that the players don't know when they will be paid next and this is the third time this year that the club haven't paid them on time. He was fairly calm about it but he did say he had no idea who he would be lining up with on Sunday. For some of his team mates yesterday was apparently the last straw. Feel a lot of sympathy for them and the fans who have got behind them and spent their hard earned following them. Black day for our sport. Even Talk Sport (who never give RL a mention) couldn't wait to get in on the act. One question from a kn£b of a presenter was 'does this signal a slow death for rugby league?'. Didn't bother listening to the rest.

Talk 5H1TE are to be avoided at all costs, MKC. An organisation with more nobs per square yard than thses loony political parties.

As I said on another thread, Senior WILL have had it in his contract that it was to be on SL terms. If not, his agent/solicitor are about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

Senior and Thomas (well paid) will more than likely bounce back from this. Concerns are for their younger squad players, who may not get paid/get lost to the game, in future.

Again, as I commented on another thread, the RFL must look more than silly over the whole Celtic/Crusaders affair.
We've had them go into administration, had the visa scandal, poor attendances, and now this, an 11th hour collapse, as just the tip of the ice-berg.
They've SERIOUSLY got to look at their whole expansion policy, and other issues.
In the past 30 years, we're well on the way (off the top of my head) to seeing the amount of clubs going out of existance, go into double figures. Unnacceptable. We also had the farce of the Super League amalgamations in 1995. Other sports (and the media) must need a Tena Lady in their boxers when the latest joke announcement is made.

IF (and it's a bl00dy big if) the RFL have another brainfart, and decide to bring in another team in, they MUST be shackled to the RFL's accountant (and give a weekly balance sheet to him), to ensure that they are (and remain)100% solvent. Otherwise, the game looks like a joke to the outside world....again.

Bet he signs for the Demics.

Spot on Lefty. The whole thing looks like the RFL asked Crusaders to fall on their own sword to avoid Red Hall looking like a bunch of clueless wazzocks. It's clear the franchise system is not only flawed its pointless and promotion/relegation should return in my view. The 'financial controls' that SL are supposed to bring to the game clearly didn't work in Crus case and the RL need to explain why our latest expansion attempt has failed so badly. As you say the kick and clap biased media must have severe stomach pains due to non stop 24 hour laughter.

I'd be angry if I was in Seniors situation, he'd signed a contract to play super league, but then again there was always a chance Crusaders wouldn't get a license anyway.

Did Crusaders pull out of their own volition or did the RFL ask them to pull out?

Senior in retrospect acted very unprofessionally as have all of the Crusaders players who tweeted how unhappy they are with the club.

They should have at least waited until the day after when they had held talks with the club.

I disagree with on this. The players have every right to be annoyed. The club has acted poorly on this and deserve every bit of abuse their getting

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.