Chapter 99 www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/spo ... -27596732/

Chapter 99 www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/spo ... -27596732/

Its a great way to do business, run up loads of debt, fold, then relaunch, i we wonder why the UK is in such a mess!

So many teams including our own are stuggling with money, i wonder is it time for players and coaches to stop being paid silly amounts of cash! lol like that is ever gonner happen!

(iam not saying all players are overpaid, this is quite clearly not the case, however some, are just being greedy, but then again who can blame em if some daft club is willing to sell their sole!)

Sold its soul many years back, this wonderful endeavour the fat one has us on, will more than likely follow the UK Basketball and Ice Hockey systems of Administrations, relaunches, rebadging, Sugar Daddys and owners coming and going perpetually, stability my rear, they will continue to try to hoodwink people into believing things are getting better and better by sticking close by Major sponsors and only having people on TV who are generally 'On side' with the Farce. Wood and Lewis dont answer to anyone which is the real scandal, and the SL bosses are on the Gravy train. Stinks!

It surely is a sad indictment of the british business system. Why should a company actually have to meet its debts when it can just run up as much debt as it wants, go bust and then set up again?

If a rugby club goes into administration the RFL penalise them by deducting them 9 points for the season. What penalty will they apply when a club runs itself into the ground??

Would the RFL have the same view if Blackpool just go bust and set up again the next day????

Is there any wonder that people have severe doubts about the way the british rugby league is run?????

Corrupt to the core! Thats the RFL. Welsh Crusaders and Quins cost the game money are run as pathetically as any club in the game and are allowed to get away with it. The RFL "Helped" Quins and then changed the rules straight after. And looks like the RFL will turn a blind eye to the way Crusaders are run. Widnes, Keighley, Doncaster etc were deducted 9 points. Crusaders should be dropped in to the Championship and allowed to build properly.
Nigel "No Morals" Wood once again shows how useless he is. Why should the RFL be funding SL Clubs? How can they be seen to be Fair and Neutral to all clubs with such actions? Why one rule for Expansion clubs and one rule for others? How much is it costing the RFL to keep Crusaders going? Why are Blackpool allowed to die but Crusaders not? The likes of Richard Lewis and Nigel Wood should be forced to answer the questions instead of changing the goal posts all the time to suit there dreams.

In 8 years time they can call themselves [iWrexham Thirteen[/i.

For obvious reasons.



Super League? There's nothing "super" about it. I remember Viz running a joke advert: Franklin Mint "Exclusive Dog's Egg" collectables. That's what Super League is becoming. It appears that you can in fact polish a turd.

chapter 100 news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 109417.stm

chapter 100 news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 109417.stm

Haven't got a link to Chapter 101, but reading the rugby press today, it looks like Crusaders will be going into administration (leaving creditors unpaid) this week.

New Company W Crusaders formed on 20th October?????!!!!!! registered address of Geoff Moss. Pre-meditated and I wonder if all those Welsh fans who have shelled out for season tickets will have them honoured. In a word...disgraceful

Doesnt the RFL rules for administration include starting the next season on -9 points? If so what is the point

If the company is wound up, and a new club formed and admitted to Superleague (another argument entirely) then as a new club would they be deducted 9pts?

They could deduct them 100 points, it doesn't make any difference. There's no relegation, so their SL place is safe with the current crazy rules system that is in place.

No, but if they are run as the current club in adminstration then they should be deducted the two points and when they apply for a superleague licence for 2012 they will have been in adminstration in the past 12 months and therefore inelligible to apply???

For me, if they form a new club they should make an application to join the rugby league at a maximum of Championship 1. The Celtic Crusaders secured a superleague licence based on the position of their ground and their business plan. This was not awarded to Crusaders, nor Welsh Crusdaders. But then the RFL will do exactly what they want to, as they always do.

Not if they are in adminstration, because they would be inelligible to apply, as they would have been in adminstration in the past 12 months (widnes!!!)

However the RFL would just simply change their rules to ensure that they were in.

Didn't someone post somewhere that these administration 'rules' have mysteriously disappeared from the RFL Operating Guidelines and Procedures on the RFL website?

Now it has been reported that they are not going to be wound up - apparently HMRC are applying to withdraw the wind up order...

I am confused.com...!

Apparently they'd paid this debt ages ago as it turns out, everyone just forgot.

what a load of tosh

I forget i've paid for things sometimes aswell to be fair and often need a private meeting with a governing body where no agreement or money was given to remind me. Don't know what all the fuss is about. You're all just looking for things to moan about now.

Didnt we show up on a list of companies to be wound up one day, leading to a very quickly released statement from Mr Steele saying it was referring to an old debt that had been settled, but not in time to be removed from the list that is published

Aye, but as soon as we saw it, Mr Steele released said statement. When we all saw Crusaders there, their bloke goes 'aye, we're up it without a paddle to be honest'. So why didn't he remember there and then they'd actually paid it?

Crusaders will not get a license. Cas, Wakey and Salford to stay up. Widnes to join them. Gives Fax a chance to step up to the plate in 2015.

Yeh right, like thats going to happen

Have the RFL said there will be a club promoted from the Championship in 2015?
`Cos I can`t see it myself to be honest, it wouldn`t surprise me at all if it was lock down after this time.Unless of course one of them implodes then some one else might get a look in.

do u know what, i am getting to the stage that if it was not for the fact i had been follwing Fax now for 20 years or so, i would probably pack in following Rugby Leauge, the current regime clearly have a vision for RL, however grass roots fans dont share this vision.

Promotion and relegation - its simple, everbody understands it, you finish bottom, u go down! U finish top u go up!

How about this for an idea, no title for winning the league, in fact no points for winning a game, in fact, no points for scoreing a try, why dont the bafoons at redhall sit in a room eating and drinking and tell us the results every week!

The Welsh expantion has failed! Halifax and or Widnes has a chance of getting 3-5 k crowds in super league, Welshies, 1k average, now thats progress!

Me thinks damage is being (has been done in the heartlands) that is iriversible! (wow now i def cannot speall that word!)

they are still planning ahead www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/S ... 6618370.jp

they are still planning ahead www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/S ... 6618370.jp