Hey guys, getting sick of playing your lot haha, anyway every week for an external crusaders forum i ask the opposing fans for their views ahead of teh game, and re-post them on our forum..

Thanks in advance, if you could take some time out to answer these please



What will the score be on Saturday?

What player shoudl we fear most?

What player of ours do you fear most?

Where will either team finish this season?

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time?

What will the score be on Saturday? Salford 24-10 Celtic



What player shoudl we fear most? IMO Wilshere

What player of ours do you fear most? Van Dijk & Tony Duggan

Where will either team finish this season? 13th and 14th Probably

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time? Salford - If we get a ground, mid-table SL team if not, Winning the Championship
Celtic - Low finishing SL team.

What will the score be on Saturday? :1h7luhrq28 - 16 (hopefully):1h7luhrq

What player shoudl we fear most? :1h7luhrqJeremy Smith & Ratchford when he comes on:1h7luhrq

What player of ours do you fear most? :1h7luhrqTony Duggan & Van Dijk:1h7luhrq

Where will either team finish this season? :1h7luhrqSalford i think can push for 12th (ill make my mind up for sure after saturday) I think celtic will finish bottom):1h7luhrq

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time?:1h7luhrq Unless the new stadium hurrys up and gets built then a mid table championship side. Celtic hard to say dont really know how well the expansion down there will go but i would think a low SL club.

What will the score be on Saturday? Salford 28 Celtic 24

What player shoudl we fear most? Backs - John Wilshere Forwards - Craig Stapleton

What player of ours do you fear most? Close call between Duggan, Van Dijk & Mapp

Where will either team finish this season? 13th & 14th

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time? I can't think of 2 SL clubs whose long-term future would be tougher to call

What will the score be on Saturday? Salford City Reds 26-8 Celtic Crusaders

What player should we fear most? Cashmere [Forwards + Smith [Backs

What player of ours do you fear most? Van Dijk

Where will either team finish this season? Salford City Reds 8th and Celtic Crusaders 13th

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time? Both clubs still playing top flight rugby league.

thanks so far lads

Welcome to the forum John Dixon.



I can see Celtic winning on Sat. Hope I'm wrong.

What will the score be on Saturday? Salford 16 - Celtic 20



What player should we fear most? Think Alker will be up for it after recent goings on. Talau aswell

What player of ours do you fear most? Duggan

Where will either team finish this season? celtic 14th Salford 13th

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time? Celtic can go either 2 ways IMO they will just continue on like Harlequins/ with low support and never really setting the world alight or they'll just go bust.

Really don't know about us its all on the stadium

salford 24 celtic 10

all of them

when fully fit and aclimatised all off them

salford 9th crusaders 14th

salford in sl crusaders bump imo

I think it'll be close on Saturday but i'll go for Salford 22-18. I think you'll need to keep an eye on Alker. He was making a lot of ground in the first quarter against Leeds and he should be really fired up after losing the Captaincy. The one player i really do fear and you may struggle to hang on to is Tony Duggan. Think it's fair to say that anything other than 13th and 14th would be a shock. In 5 years, Salford mid table SL. Crusaders, I hope still around but I fear the worst. A lot will depend on the quality of player you can attract as your overseas quota is reduced.

What will the score be on Saturday? Salford 30-14 Celtic



What player shoudl we fear most? Our pack. If we get on top in the forwards we'll win the game. In the backs Johnny Wilshere is a class above. (although I've not seen the new lads so difficult to comment)

What player of ours do you fear most? Duggan. IIRC correctly he destroyed us at home last year. Van Dijk also needs closing down as from what I've seen he dictates the play for your lot.

Where will either team finish this season? Solly - 11th (just above Wire

) , CC - 14th.

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time? Solly- Ground permitting, top 8 consistently and a visit to Wembley for the Challenge Cup final will do me nicely. No new ground doesn't bear thinking about but at least we'll get to stuff Swinton twice a season

CC - Difficult to say. I would still have liked to have seen Widnes in but what's done is done so I want to see CC become a success (but not at our expense

). As mentioned previously if you can recruit some quality Aussies/Kiwis and bring through some talented local lads you may become I solid SL team. If not, you're gonna struggle and the RFL will look like numpties (what's new?). If RL is ever going to take off in Wales now is the time. If it fails, sorry, NL1/2 beckons.

What will the score be on Saturday? HT: 10-10 FT: 10-16 but don't know which way!



What player shoudl we fear most? No 1 man, if we play as a team we will win. If we don't we will loose!

What player of ours do you fear most? Duggan.

Where will either team finish this season? Reds below 10th above 13th. CC: 13 or 14th.

Where do you see both clubs in 5 years time? as others have said if we get a stadium mid SL, if not .......... i don't wanna think about it! CC, i really hope with us mid SL but only if you gat some more local players. I would love there to be a real welsh team in SL. I just hope that it will happen.

will you actually be coming to gods green acre on saturday?

Salford City Reds v Celtic Crusaders 7.30pm SKY
Ref T Alibert TJ J Cobb TJ S Wright RR M Thomason VR S Ganson MC K Leyland

Anything could happen now

Ref T Alibert - is that the french ref?

Ganson on VR

Very cosmopolitan match on Saturday Night down at the Willows.
An English side
a French referee
and an Aussie side

LOL pev

if we work hard and don't switch off we can win this game. anything like we played last year against them and van dijk will tear us apart

How orginal pev, glad your so witty and quick thinking


Just hope your side are as clever and wittty as you on Saturday

so sorry but the truth is out there



The Franchise was all about local lads getting a chance and ensuring that England had a chance against Australia, but the RFL still managed to mess this up by not restricting ALL clubs to the same set of rules.

Come on, if your gonna take the obvious cheap shots, at least research your sh*t replies with factul evidence, we have 3 welsh boys



I'll leave the pettiness to you now and wait and see our teams preform on the field Saturday, as we all know this is all that matters and not your small minded views and your obvious lack of knowledge.

p.s. we are not the only team in SL this season with aussie's in the squad, I can think of at least one other team with 10 (yes i said 10), who have a history a longer than ours


So where is your comments on that and no chances for English players?

Those comments would be out of place in a thread discussing Salford v Celtic.