yes I had hoped we would have seen a strong club with a competitive team and lots of fans. So much for franchise bidding and giving teams time to build squads!

Yep great parallels. 50 year RL tradition, game played by thousands, communities brought up on RL, competitive youth set up etc all in abundance around Bridgend


To improve Bridgend need to move to Swansea/Cardiff.

Don't mention that top hat in a thread about us please.

C0ck of the highest order.

I said at the start of the season they would not win a match i will not change my mind but i do hope they turn some body over soon.

They won't win this season and I'd be surprised if they still exist this time next season.

They haven't got the crowds (Not that they could be expected to yet), but they won't increase until the side is capable of winning. They don't seem to have made any half decent signings this season, just random NRL nobodies and loaned SL rejectees who will be in the National Leagues next season no doubt.

I just don't see how you are meant to stabilise and move forward with diminishing interest, falling crowds, no income and low morale?

going into administration and dripping like a tap seems to work

a finger wag of disapproval from gutterfax himself i'm honoured

If they get in quick they can get this lad upset.

lol has Worrincy been told he gotta stay at Bulls for 2 more years ??

Heh, I was about to post the same but you beat me to it.

too slow mate

If I may play Devil's advocate here....


The expansion from 12 to 14 clubs was always going to stretch the player pool beyond its limits. The clubs already in SL always had the advantage. Perhaps, now CC are certain of SL for the next two years, they will slowly be able to bring in a better class of player from the NRL to strengthen for the rest of the current licence period.

The difference this time around though was that Celtic and Salford knew at the same time as all the other clubs that they were awarded a license. Therefore they did not face the same difficulties as previously promoted teams in terms of assembling a squad for SL.

Celtic have put in some good efforts this season so far and hopefully a morale boosting win will not be too far away. However, there is a danger that their advantage due to location will be nullified by a perceived failure to contribute to the competition next time around.

Even if celts get a win it will only be a shock result, like any championship team might pull out of the bag given 30 attempts

even if they won a few games i cant see where their crowds will come from

reckon theyll be odds on not being around 5 years from now

We all know that all the other clubs would more than likely get a licence anyway. Then there's the fact that every SL club, with the exception of Cas, already had plenty of time to strengthen in SL - Even Cas had an extra 12 months or so. This gave them an advantage over both Salford and Celtic.

Then there's the fact that two new clubs had to compete for players, from a pool that would be spr, and thus harder to find quality players than ever before. I suppose you have to give Salford a bit of credit for doing better than CC without the quota exemption CC have. With one going up and one going down, you at least had the merry go round of players possibly available that wasn't there before.

Going to 14 clubs was always likely to weaken the competition at the bottom of the league. That should change over the next two years if things are done right.

It was always going to be a hard season they are not playing badly at home. Tightening the defence up a bit will bring a win sometime, Le Cats or Salford best bet?

Can't see who their going to beat tbh, would have said Salford possibly but they seem to have got upto the pace of SL now...

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Was bound to happen eventually..... but its still funny

who will they upset next

Manly

Wigan 13th June

it wouldnt surprise me one bit.

i can imagine a lot of people in the north of england who support teams not in SL getting very upset at this result.