nobody expected that did they, more crusaders players up for grabs,keith senior been one of them

What happened? I'm guessing its Crusaders.

I'd take Senior on a one year deal

Michael Witt maybe?

Can't think of any others off the top of my head....

I am disgusted and horrified. Can we PLEASE rename our league to "M62+Catalan" sponsored by a fecking flat-cap company.

Run my utter utter utter cretins.

Wakefeild are one lucky side! There lucky Crusaders withdrew their application

whats betting many crusaders will go to widnes,will they then count on overseas quota

think rfl have and will continue to make themselves look stupid

Anyone decent will be off to Warrington I should imagine. Who is left worth taking?

I guess the Sammut rumour is true then.

Guardian says "Wakefield Trinity have survived in the Super League, after Crusaders withdrew their application at the last minute. The news is a massive surprise, and represents a huge blow to the Rugby Football League's plans to develop the sport in Wales."

Crusaders withdrew application?! WTF!

sod Sammut, get on the phone Hood and see if Witt has a SL get out clause in his contract.

sounds to me like the crusaders trying to run before they could walk and their accelerated move to the top flight has crashed and burned. hopefully it won't mean the end of the club as for RL to survive it does need to expand.

Halifax must wonder what more they have to do to get into SL? Maybe they should demolish half their ground and then go into administration. That should do the trick.

You could hardly say Crusaders were promoting RL in Wales as they are located in northern Wales not far from Liverpool!!

predict a mass exodus from crusaders to widnes now. most of players wont even need to move house. almost like it was pre-planned...........

It is rather looking that way, isn't it?

what grade did the bulls get

b grade. quite pleased with that as I thought we'd drop to a c on back of poor attendances and missing playoffs. dont think the way the grades are calculated is quite the same as last time though.

Keith Senior's twitter makes interesting reading..

what does it say

[url=http://www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/07/26/super-league-licensing-crusaders-pull-out-application/=#800000Read all about it...[/url

The gradings, not Senior...

You guys were lucky to get a B grade having not made the play offs once! On the field counts for very little it seems.

The season ticket offer this season looks like it made the difference between a B and a C.

wonder what the welsh rugby union folk will think of rugby league now,getting gareth thomas was a good PR move for league now i reckon league will be laughed at in the valleys

was quite looking forward to seeing "right said fred" in the centres for crusaders next season (thomas and senior for those who dont know)

except this years attendances count towards the next franchise not this one. we also did make the playoff once in 2008 (5th). we averaged 8th position over the franchise period (2008-2010). HTH

pmsl

Read the criteria, sunshine.

We made the playoffs in 2008. That means we met that criterion.

we get same grade as wigan and better than hudd,just as you would expect