Good luck selling tickets for that one now

We shouldnt give up on the place. They've not gone bankrupt. You never know in 3 seasons time they might come back much stronger imo like Widnes did.

Hope so.

They don't have many fans but the ones who go are as passionate as any

Will there still be a Racecourse Ground in existance come November???

Oh they have and Wrexham FC are going down with them and that is the main reason the best hope is a merger with Scorpions and the new club to be in the Championship but the current owners will be long gone laughing all the way to the bank.

Geez, I'd like to think people would still watch their national team regardless of what happens at club level. Then again this is rugby league.

Your right Dico I don't think that we should give up on them but they should get no special help like they and other expension clubs have had with number of overseas players and salery cap exemptions. The must now do it like the rest of us have to. The Crusaders fans will be more than welcome at the LSV.

When Cas got relegated did all of the Cas fans decide not to attend any internationals in Leeds? When the England vs France game was held at Leigh sports village I assume nobody from Leigh attended.

Why would the Welsh come out in numbers to watch a National team made up of English rejects?
They need Welsh clubs to provide Welsh players. l hope the Crusaders will survive along with the Scorpions, and valley Cougers get into C1,
lf we carn,t make it in Wales, theres no hope outside the M62 corridor,
l think this is a sad day for RL, hope l,m wrong

I don't get your point. I was there though.

As I have said for a long time.

[size=150RUGBY LEAGUE IS NOT POPULAR IN WALES.[/size


Union is the only sport that counts there.

People should have worked it out by now. 2 failed expansion attempts. It's never going to happen.

The OP thinks there is a strong correlation between Crusaders not being in SL next season and not being able to sell tickets for a Welsh international match. Fact remains it would have little bearing if anything more people may turn up.

Which is why the two football clubs in the two biggest cities in Wales comprehensively outdraw the respective rugby union teams. Yeah, some Union stronghold.

League can strive in Wales, but it needs to be a longterm project. What good does 3 years do for anyone?

Which Welsh Premiership football sides attract more than a few hundred ? Cardiff and Swansea have traditionally been football cities, outside of there in south Wales it is dominated by rugby union. North Wales has no elite level RU presence and no football club of note, mid Wales too sply populated to really count.
Rugby is a large part of the Welsh character football is not.

So why the sly dig at Leigh fans? I think most people on the VT have a problem with a certain Leigh fan then tar us all with the same brush.

It was not a dig at Leigh fans; it was a ironic point being made to the OP that ased on his/her logic nobody from Leigh (which they quite obviously did) attended the England vs France game at Leigh Sport Village.

Ah, I stand corrected. Trying to follow on iphone.

well we may as well give up then hey! any other places where rugby league is not that popular that you think we should also not try and grow the game? maybe we should just stop playing the sport altogether?

London.

Wales and England should be kicked out of the Four Nations immediately.

England should be replaced with GB.

Invite PNG or Fiji as the fourth nation to compete.

More popular than it is in Salford, though there is no RL club in the city of London so i assume you meant Twickenham.

I didn't mention 'the city of london'





You could have a point though. Maybe these 560 million London based RL supporters or however many there were supposed to be couldn't find the club when they were calling themselves 'London' Broncos and thats why their crowds were so small.

Am I the only person thinking of making money out of this? A squad of majorly p*ssed off players, lacking motivation going away to a team BUZZING by getting a licence.

Sunday at 3:30 Wakefield vs Crusaders

Think a trip to the bookmakers may be in order for that one

In a perfect world Crusaders players would give 100% win the game, thank the away fans and refuse to turn out for the club again but I fear they will do the later without going through the other 3 elements.