I've posted this on our board and Crusaders but thought the whole RL community would appreciate this short video of an emotional and fond farewell of Crusaders RL...

People have their own opinions of who should stay/go but those fans tonight have lost their club and need to be respected for supporting our great game whether it's 1 or 1,000 or even 10,000

All the best!!



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Got to admit that is flipping fantastic.

Why are so many people on the pitch? What was the crowd?

They deserve a super league franchise, such passionate support at Wrexham.

RFL GET THEM A CHAMPIONSHIP CLUB TO BUILD PLEASE!

It was amazing and I have never experienced anything like that!! A couple ran on at first then the stewards just opened the gates for the rest.... The best thing about the whole thing was the stewards and the Crusaders fans where encouraging the FC fans to go and get involved but we let them have their moment and just sang at them!! Truly in awe and don't mind admitting that I shed a tear or two!!

Thanks for watching it!!

Much better post. Well done to all the fans. Hopefully this isn't the end of Rugby League in wales.

Hopefully the crusaders fans will take heart from such a fantastic send off from the hull fans, hope they come back stronger as they are such an important club for RL!!

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Wow, there must be 20 people on the pitch!

Why are they folding, what a success! Well done RFL!

Idiot!!

It makes the North Wales fans' enthusiasm even more remarkable when you consider that they have had to put up with people like this from the start.

The truth hurts sometimes doesn't it , maybe you'd have been happier to deny Widnes a shot at SL ?

Nice touch from the Hull fans

What you mean like Halifax fans have been visiting Wrexham , telling people not to attend ? , so it's our fault they don't have enough support to finance a SL club ?

What we post on here has no actual effect on any clubs support or financial performance

Jeeez you're more boring than i could ever imagine!! I favour ONE team!! HULL FC..... But i don't wish any team to have to go through that today and you should count yourself very lucky that you don't have to!! You may get your crack at Superleague and IF it goes wrong for you, you will get the same response from the RL community, but the way you are acting it's more a case of 'you wouldn't be missed'....

It did go wrong , we didn't get any sympathy , we were just told the truth , our club wasn't good enough , the same applies to the Crusaders , their club isn't good enough , it isn't rocket surgery

You think thats good, you should have seen the send off chris Hill got on saturday at the LSV before his move to Warrington and his subsiquent assault on sl for the next 6 years.

oh wow!! did they open a third stand for him then?

Hmm. Point proven.

Do you know how much opening a third stand costs

no chance of that mate.
In fact we could do with some away support for that to happen,Widnes excepted of course.

tongue in cheek, ever heard of that?

small but committed set of fans, shame to lose them. Have the RFL learnt anything I wonder?

What a load of hypocrites, how condescending is this? What did the super league clubs and community do to save this "essential" RFL experiment? (Remember the vote to keep Harlequins in SL?) Nothing! Why? Cos we are alright Jack!

And who are the real idiots here? The ones who saw this coming, due to the RFL's ridiculous policy that forced super league on a club not ready, or those who believed the rhetoric coming out of Red Hall? Would you have said the same thing to Wakefield fans had they been kicked out of super league, because, make no mistake, this would also have happened to them. There are other clubs out there who are also suffering because of the RFL's policy but most of you cant see it eh?

And Headhunter, you type some nonsense when you can get your hands out of the straight jacket, but to blame "flatcappers", who really couldnt give a rat's ass either way for the crusaders is up there amongst your classics! The reason for this is poor management of the sport by the RFL.

And no, this is not about my club not getting into SL - i'd rather see us being competitive as we are now than bumping along the bottom.

What is happening to the crusaders is very, very sad. As is is to every club. We should be doing all we can to stop it, not commiserating everyone after it has all happened

Please, please, please dont lumber us with them in the Championship. Theres enough teams that dont bring any support without adding another. They are a failure and as such should probably be put in the summer conference or whatever it is.

I was there as a neutral and it was a little bit bizzare.

I only hope they can continue in the league below or one below that, I genuinely think many of those would turn up again and if they got half that many, that would be a very good championship average

Yeah, but I'm not sure you know what it is.

Posted in the thread "proud" about the great community spirit active in rugby league. You'll forgive me for being a tad cynical about that.