Agreed the whole thing is a farce the idea of a welsh club in SL was expansion, how far is Wrexham from Widnes or St Helens 20 - 30 miles? How much more of this lunacy do we have to put up with? I whole heartedly support expanding the game but clubs need to start at the bottom develop a fan base and and introduce rl into the community to extract the best of the local talent, if this takes 10/15 years thats what it takes.
I do not wish it but I fully expect this to fail within 2 years, it doesnt matter how much money is thrown at it, I see Noble has already started with his excuses today. The rfl was looking for expansion what it has got is division and ridicule.

So if not in dire straits, then they should keep superleague in bridgend and that is unfair on celtic.My opinion it another area wrexham, and is close to widnes.It stinks.

where next after this Crusaders ?
mid wales, anglesey, chester, ??????????????

WHAT A JOKE OUR SPORT IS

Think this club needs help, blame the rfl

For ?

For going ahead with this idiotic scheme in the first place, everyone knew this was doomed before the last season started except it would seem the rfl.

For making our game look like an amateurish shambles yet again.

For continuing with their double standards.

For ignoring the wishes of the majority.

Could go on and on and on..............

, I just wanted to hear it

dear oh dear.
You diatribe says more about yourself than anyone else on here.

The move to Wrexham is typical of big business arrogance. "We can make it work because we are businessmen and can make things happen." That was the Leighton Samuels mindset, until he got bored. Most people who know rugby league, ie, those who actually follow the game, don't reckon it has got a cat in hells chance of working in Wrexham. Ultimately, those who know rugby league will be proved right.

But let's stop waffling about teams like Doncaster not getting into Super League. The Doncaster public has never shown an appetite for rugby league at the levels required to maintain a Super League team, through franchising or otherwise. Widnes have, and Halifax have. Featherstone have (although I don't think a small mining town fits the RFL's mould these days).

Good luck Wrexham. I would rather it succeeded than failed, but I won't learn the route, because I don't think I'll need to go there more than once.

Fev ceased being a mining town in 1983 when Acton Hall Colliery closed! Fev, whilst being called "Featherstone Rovers and associated with being a mining town has always pulled in Fans from Pontefract, Knottingley - even as far as Goole and that mighty republic that is Rawmash, Rotherham! So it's catchment area is quite big.

Tho, it I have to agree, we probably still won't sit well with the RL's portfolio!

Heard all too often on these boards as well slugger , just because somebody has made a few million in one particular field of business does not mean they will have a clue how to manage a business designed to lose money to be a success

It's even worse than that, because the buy-out is meant to save the football club, and so the end will come even sooner than if it had been a long-term plan to get rugby league going in Wrexham. As soon as they see it isn't benefiting the football club, that's the end of the Crusaders.