Quote ="headhunter"Fair enough if they weren't in liquidation, I think it's still difficult to argue that they weren't in a worse state than Crusaders though. Crusaders entered adminsitration and registered a new trading name to clear a multitude of debts from the previous owners, they are stable, as you say it was a planned administration because it would be impossible for the club to operate properly with the weight of debts that weren't anything to do with them. Presumably that's why the RFL were lenient. Widnes on the other hand were in dire straits, players were leaving and as far as I'm aware the club was going out of existence until O'Connor stepped in. Any amount of help from the RFL would have been pointless as there was no owner and the club couldn't function. It's pretty irrelevant now as Widnes have proven themselves to be stable and will be granted a license this time. But when the initial decision was made, it was only a few weeks after this had happened, there was no guarantee that O'Connor was in for the long haul etc, so I don't feel the RFL were wrong to leave Widnes out until they could prove themselves, which they have. Remember there was no guarantee that Leighton Samuel would turn out to be a crook and Crusaders would have been mismanaged the way they were in the South either, they were in a stronger position off the field than Widnes at the time.'"
I'm sorry but, How can you even begin to justify Crusaders existance in Super League???
Its been a sham from start to finish...and because of this, The game of Rugby League has been severely damaged, and its reputation torn to shreds.
For your sake, I hope Crusaders now make a go of it, because anything less than a spectacular success would result in a worldwide disaster for the future of Super League & Rugby league in general, and embarrassment & anger on a monmental scale.
