Quote ="the_grobs"Some might say that fielding Dick Van Dyke and 5 other illegal players through their NL1 promotion campaign was also very questionable about whether they deserved to rettain a Superleague spot over those who competed within the rules. In light of recent events and fines etc, imagine what the RFL would have done to us. Without mincing words....it was cheating basically. I remember how Cas felt with the Wigan and Stuart Fielden farce. Enuff said!
There are some funny stuff being posted on here by our Welsh neighbours, and their claims of success...god bless them!!
Firstly their pride in the modest increase in home attendances. The sad thing is that it is not due to the Welsh contingent....it's actually due to the ground being more accessible, than Cardiff was, for visiting fans. How the Crusaders take credit for this as their successful development I'll never know! If any other accessible NL1 or NL2 team got into Superleague, I'd guess the that their attendances would go up by a couple of thousand or so. Just think, we could do that without the RFL bending rules to suit and bank rolling them, and we could all sit back and say what a success we'd made of the job. A Joke basically!!
Also, I'm reading posts about 2500 hard core fans.....yet on some game the gates have dipped to a reported 1000 to 1500 on occasions where unbiased commentators have speculated at no more than 500 to 800 present. Just exactly how hard core is this 2500???
Yep, you are 1 place above us. Credit to you for what happens on the field!!! I can't say fairer than that. However, it's everything which the RFL allows to happen in the background, that is hard to accept.'"
only dipped for the games in neath.
st.helens game at home is well on the way to be up around the 10k mark.
500-800 talking crap the racecourse gates haven't dipped under 2k in the superleague so get your facts right.
