I know, The website had 2000 to 2003. My link was just to the last year.
The argument was that Halifax offered a great deal more than the Crusaders, my suggestion was that when they were in SL the didn't offer a great deal more.

Your link highlighted Halifax's attendances at their SL low point.

In terms of attendances (home and away) I'd imagine a reasonably successful Halifax would offer SL more than Celtic however looking at the bigger picture I hope Celtic are successful in the Welsh RU heartlands.

I'm sure that Halifax would offer something, so would Widnes, Whitehaven, Featherstone etc. Whether it's more or less than Crusaders we will have to see. At least 3 of theose clubs have been in administration in the past few years.

The Crusaders experiment may succeed or may fail. They were hindereed, moreso than Catalans, (just like teams promoted in previous years) in that they couldn't recruit until the franchise was awarded and by this stage most of the other SL clubs had signed up their 2009 squads (even though some didn't turn up). Like it or not this is where we're at and support and help for the fledgling club should IMO be condoned. Lets have a look where they are at the time of the awarding of the next franchises and judge them then.

ive seen fulham & london broncos playing from borough to borough looking for a fan base. bridgend, kent, mansfield, to many to mention, would love to see crusaders or harlequins playing in front of 9 or 10,000 every other week (won't happen) Halifax, widnes, leigh or cumbria not picking out any i don't watch their attendances i have other things to do, i'm just a traditionalist i suppose.

sorry mate, probably need to, just remember the epic games v. widnes, and going to watch halifax at wembley, even used to watch them inbetween leeds games in the days of graham eadie etc.