When you live somewhere you get an idea for what will and won't work. Irish people don't even give a for their own soccer teams. Walk around Dublin or Cork and the only sporting shirts you will see are premiership soccer or GAA.

The RLI couldnt run a up in the Guiness factory. They are the most incompetent waste of space I have had the misfortune of having dealings with for many a year.

Add to this the fact that Ireland will be in recession for at least the next 5 years, probably 10, is still in denial of this fact and surely you can see this has nothing but failure written all over it.

If you played St Helens V Wigan in Dublin this year I bet it wouldn't get more than 50 Irish people to attend.

Its not the whole point, but it is a big one. And we should see Crusaders bringing through the best welsh players into an SL enviroment over the next few years

If they last that long

Of course it is, thats the whole point.

Which of course they would, and they would certainly be able to bring players through into an SL enviroment if only they had less visibility, lower crowds, less sponsorship, in a poorer stadium and didnt play at SL level apparently.

So can we just accept that you dont really know of any good or logical argument as to why "actual real welsh players (whose development was largely funded by crusaders btw), playing in a poorer quality stadium, at a lower level, with less support, less visibility, less sponsorship mean that SWS are firstly 'better' than Crusaders and secondly more sustainable than Crusaders?"

No more than a side from Hull existing to play and develop talent from East Yorkshire