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Well said Phil Clarke - even if the RFL are trying to keep a low profile - some are prepared to stand up and be counted
www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 51,00.html
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From Dave Hadfield of the Independant:-
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"Many of us let our hearts rule our heads when we supported the elevation of the Celtic Crusaders to Super League this season.
We wanted them to succeed because of the obvious benefits for the game of a thriving club in South Wales.
And yet there was a little voice in the back of our heads saying: "They're not ready and there's something not right about them."
In one sense, that worry had already turned out to be well-founded before the events of this week. A team largely composed of bulk bought Australians had not really been competitive and it was proving hard work to attract fans to Brewery Field.
Now it transpires that the Crusaders earned their Super League place with half a dozen players who shouldn't have been there.
It's a scam on a par with the last days of Paris St Germain and explains why other teams in what were then the National Leagues were constantly muttering about them.
One of those mutterings was that the RFL was so determined to have them in Super League that it would turn a blind eye to any defects.
It all raises the question of whether the League applied due diligence to the club's visa situation. They said yesterday, in effect, that it wasn't their business.
Not good enough - not when you have the integrity of a competition to maintain.
It has all proved a terrible embarrassment to the game, which just looks a shambles.
I still hope the Crusaders can succeed. There have been some hopeful signs in their grass-roots work and the drip feed of young Welsh players into the first team.
And there will be a glimpse of the future on Saturday, when they play at Newport, their home for next season.
They have also promised a stronger team for next year. Let's just hope all their paperwork is in order". |
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Well said Phil Clarke - even if the RFL are trying to keep a low profile - some are prepared to stand up and be counted
www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 51,00.html
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From Dave Hadfield of the Independant:-
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"Many of us let our hearts rule our heads when we supported the elevation of the Celtic Crusaders to Super League this season.
We wanted them to succeed because of the obvious benefits for the game of a thriving club in South Wales.
And yet there was a little voice in the back of our heads saying: "They're not ready and there's something not right about them."
In one sense, that worry had already turned out to be well-founded before the events of this week. A team largely composed of bulk bought Australians had not really been competitive and it was proving hard work to attract fans to Brewery Field.
Now it transpires that the Crusaders earned their Super League place with half a dozen players who shouldn't have been there.
It's a scam on a par with the last days of Paris St Germain and explains why other teams in what were then the National Leagues were constantly muttering about them.
One of those mutterings was that the RFL was so determined to have them in Super League that it would turn a blind eye to any defects.
It all raises the question of whether the League applied due diligence to the club's visa situation. They said yesterday, in effect, that it wasn't their business.
Not good enough - not when you have the integrity of a competition to maintain.
It has all proved a terrible embarrassment to the game, which just looks a shambles.
I still hope the Crusaders can succeed. There have been some hopeful signs in their grass-roots work and the drip feed of young Welsh players into the first team.
And there will be a glimpse of the future on Saturday, when they play at Newport, their home for next season.
They have also promised a stronger team for next year. Let's just hope all their paperwork is in order". | |
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oh Dave Hadfield, hindsight isn't half 20/20 in his neck of the woods.
I can't recall his protestations 2 years ago when the abolition of P+R came in or when celtic were granted a licence!!!
Otherwise, relevant comments to make given the gravity of the situation.
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look starbug and others
i read most of this garbage on tuesday, and i dont see how its made leigh less embarrasing to their fans or the general rl community, do you?
heres a little idea.....you may write it down with the help of a grown up.
get your team to score more points than the team that turns up to play them each weekend, ok forget about LSF being lovely BECAUSE IT STANDS FOR LEIGH SLIGHTLY F..............! ok
but down the mouse, pull out the keyboard, log off and go and rant about the state of the world in bus stations, because your boring theories are deserving af being shouted at a more random audience, and you get more cider!
later when your better you may come back on the nl2 board and join in
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| Quote chapster="chapster"look starbug and others
i read most of this garbage on tuesday, and i dont see how its made leigh less embarrasing to their fans or the general rl community, do you?
heres a little idea.....you may write it down with the help of a grown up.
get your team to score more points than the team that turns up to play them each weekend, ok forget about LSF being lovely BECAUSE IT STANDS FOR LEIGH SLIGHTLY F..............! ok
but down the mouse, pull out the keyboard, log off and go and rant about the state of the world in bus stations, because your boring theories are deserving af being shouted at a more random audience, and you get more cider!
later when your better you may come back on the nl2 board and join in'"
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"Whats the LSF ?'"
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i cant spell villiage!
anyway nice to see that was the only thing you could fault in my post, your learning! |
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i cant spell villiage!
anyway nice to see that was the only thing you could fault in my post, your learning!'"
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Phil Clarke has suggested that there should be an inquiry to see whether there has been "institutionalised deceit". He makes a valid point, and the potential complicity of the RFL in this is not encouraging, but the main problem is that the short term view of those who run the Celtics and the RFL could end professional rugby league in Wales for ever, the rot beginning with the "it's now or never" approach of Samuels last year. I feel really sorry for the real rugby league people in Wales, who have put in the hard yards and tried to build the game, not the opportunist parasites, because I get the increasing feeling that the dark suit brigade are going to shaft your dreams, because they will get the whiff of trouble in the wind and they'll pull out their money.
Good luck, but I fear it's goodbye.
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Please can we keep the Celtic deportation discussion in here please.
Anymore new threads and people will be taking a break from posting.
Cheers, Wheels.
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| The Border Agency does seem to love refusing Rugby League players from plying their trade.
Bet Al Quaeda are ing themselves... 
[urlhttp://newslite.tv/2009/08/03/illegal-immigrant-sneaks-into.html[/url |
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LOL - so expect some Serbian Forwards, Albanian Backs & a couple of Roumanian touch Judges. Couldnt make it up could you?
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I'll take the Romanian officials over that french goon Halibut any day of the week.
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the club are responsible for checking that all their employees are legally entitled to work in this country..this time they either were slack or just plain incompetent. whichever way crusaders should be immediately relieved of their super league status and a club properly worthy of the status be promoted for the start of next season.
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