Quote: cardiffcrusaderrob "What the previous attempts show scudley is that poor attempts at expansion and the failure to set up an effective playing base due to a range of factors economic and political stopped Welsh development in its tracks. in 1996 Union had just become professional and all the Welsh talent in League moved back to Union and to more lucrative contracts. Now we can't compete with the four 'regions' and the WRU in terms of money but we can offer the vast Rugby playing pool here in the South an option that wasn't there before, local professional Rugby league, It might never be No.1 here, but I certainly think we can have a competitive side competiting near the top of the game on that basis we are better suited to succeeding than in Wrexham I think they'll agree, but this isn't North v South.
You need to understand the problems to provide effective solutions here, simply saying League won't take off because of a couple of lowish crowds is missing the point entirely.'"
my dad went to pretty much all the celtic crusaders games at bridgend and newport and he agrees that moving to wrexham was the best thing for the cluba nd it has been proved by the gates increase and there current 8th place in the league but i think that the celtic crusders would have developed after a few years and got decent crowds but they were just unfortunate not to be given the otpion to show that as if they had bad crowds they may have had to go back down to the championship so it had to be rushed to get everything better as quick as possible.
