Serious question...

I wouldn't suggest for a second that nuffy like you have any bearing on anything. Just as I wouldn't believe for a moment that you wish a new club any success at all. Especially as success would mean doing better than your club. And a club from more than 500m from the M62 doing that is just not on.

Am I remembering this wrong, but wasn't there a lower division Northampton Knights about 12 years ago? Did they never join the old 3rd Division, or play in the A team league with Hemel? Or have I just had a memory implant from TotalRecall???

So now you believe yourself to be a mindreader ? you really are ' cuckoo

Yes, there was an NCL Northampton Knights, mid 90s I think. We took their name for our junior section (Adults being orignally named Casuals after the union club we partnered with, then Demons as we created our separate identity) and a player from those days, Mick Bryant, was our captain in the first year of the new Northampton Rugby League club.

Please change the name of this thread the new club's got f all to do with Northampton Saints RUFC.

I think its brilliant, Gateshead, 2 x London, South Wales, North Wales, + 4 new clubs. Generally if a new pro RL club with any decent foundations is introduced they survive these days and it can only be a good thing for the game and playing numbers.

i think its a good move by the rfl...the cloth cappers will think that northampton has something to do with the north, and the rest of us can hope its a success. i look forward to new franchises also in northwich, north acton and north allerton in the near future

the facts are your only thinking all that because your a first class idiot.
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evidently...if you are going to call me an idiot, after a tongue in cheek post, at least get your grammar right

a grammor cop as well

Its funny to see the same people, making the same complaints about a different situation but then claiming they arent against expansion and getting all uppity because people dont believe them.

How about this, we watch, and wait. We encourage ambition and we give opportunities.

How about we accept we dont know if a Northampton RL team will be in SL in 2,4,6,10 or 100 years because we dont know how successful it will be. It would be ridiculous to promote them in 2 years if they are getting 2 or 3 hundred people and are struggling to compete, similarly it would be ridiculous to keep them in the lower leagues if they win C1 in 2013 and the Championship the year after in front of 5k averages. Anybody proclaiming their success or failure 15 months before their first semi-pro game is clearly an idiot.

Cobblers!!

This is great for the game. If you're going to expand this is the way to start. The four new teams that go into Champ 1 will have to develop from grass roots, and with support from the RFL and meaningful SL club link ups, have every chance of succeeding. Much rather we build community clubs that can grow at their own pace, than fast-track a team of second rate Aussies.

This is the point some of us have been arguing for, for years,its the only way you can build sustainable long term success.Unfortunately some people on this particular MB thought it better to just invent clubs stick them in sl and hope for the best.The rfl have seen the folly of this policy,i wonder if the posters on here have finally realized it too?.

This is all ' Come on you Wolves's ' fault , he said theyd mentioned SL in a couple of years , if they did then that'd be completely stupid , and nobody has said anything derogatory about having ambition , all clubs should have it

I can't recall a single person on this message board ever suggesting that, nor has that ever happened under the current RFL management.

Celtic Crusaders

We had posters on here with no idea of the state the club was in , both financially and support wise ' creaming ' themselves over their promotion in 2008 , the RFL obviously were just the same to put a totally unprepared club into SL

So yes it has

Celtic Crusaders started in 2006 in NL2. Exactly the same as Northampton and the other clubs will be doing.

Yes they did , and thats where they should have stayed , because that was their level in 2008 when they were given a licence , so straight in or 2 years , or 20 years makes no difference if they are clearly not up to it

That's where they should have stayed, despite winning promotion in 2007?

In 2008, Celtic Crusaders had one of the highest average crowds in NL1. They finished second in the league, and lost the Grand Final in extra time. They had youth development programs that have gone on to produce the likes of Flower, Dudson and Kear who have all signed with SL clubs. They were prime candidates for promotion, and had they not been promoted then the RFL would have been vilified for missing an opportunity because what happened to them would have happened regardless. You're talking complete and utter garbage.

You really have no idea , their attendances were boosted massively with feebies , and even then inflated beyond belief , yes I remember them finishing second , I also remember a whole load of ileagal Visa's , 17 company cars for player , a full time squad , and those players you state were RU players , they would have moved on anyway , Celtic didn't ' bring them through ' anything

It was a disaster waiting to happen , and it happened , well there's a surprise , it did them a world of good , didn't it ?

I get it, you're fully in favour of expansion as long as those clubs remain at the bottom of the lowest divison and don't trouble the real RL teams from proper RL towns.

No , I'm just not stupid or blind

Can't believe you still peddle this claptrap. Do you walk around with your head in a bucket? If not you should! So inane!

For what it's worth, I'm annoyed with the RFL for missing a trick with expanding RL into Wales by underhandedly forcing super league on a club not ready by allowing them all sorts of dispensations.

And what have they done for crusaders since? Most other inmates have seen this except your good self!