I can see us tearing them apart. Proving that the Final performance was just a blip.
Hopefully...

Backlash time i hope.
i think Browny and Baloo will have a big job this week though trying to get them in the right mindset after Saturday.
but we still got lots to play for so hopefully the players will get back on track and try to put things right again !

hopefully a nice steady win to get us back on track for the grand final

I am sure our lads can get back on track and push on for the play offs. We have had a great season and its far from over yet.

This is the "business" end of the season as they like to call it...lets show everyone we mean business starting with a win at Celtic.

COME ON YOU GIANTS!!

Absolutly, easiest game we could hope for to get us back on track for the playoffs

two more wins in the SL will do us nicely for a charge to the playoffs.

hopefully its going to be a kicking.
Who's going down to celtic....
Iam going with two others.

sorry mate but thats a disgraceful comment. our players have always shown an enormous amount of pride and however small our group of supporters are we are passionately proud of them every time they take the field. See the last ditch tackle by our full back in the leeds game when we were 50 odd points down for pride!
As for lack of interest its bit ironic being lectured on that from a club that has averaged 600 in the past in the top flight.

Our support in the past was awful and for the size of the town and number of inhabitants it's hardly anything worth shouting about even now. I am very often dissapointed by the general lack of interest in the area and lack of vocal support at matches.

However, you guys getting a place in Super League after being established for all of five minutes was a total disgrace, and events from within your organisation this season have proved beyond doubt that you were nowhere near being ready for Super League. To all the Welsh Rugby league fans out there, I applaud you and hope you carry on but I will never accept Celtic as a proper team or a team that deserved it's place in the elite competition. At least Catalans are in the Rugby League heartland of France and have contributed much to the comp aswell as the Challenge Cup....and what fan doesn't enjoy a weekend in the south of France? Sorry mate but that's how I feel and no offence was intended to you the fans more to the creation of a nonsense that is Celtic Crusaders.

Keep on topic, the pros and cons of Celtic are not this topic, neither is the borderline insults going on.

Fair enough.

think i'll be going down with the usual 150 -200 away supporters
will be looking to have a good day with the welsh lot if their visit at easter is owt to go by

If you can get yourselves down there, this is the time when the lads really need our support, they were and are really down and we need to lift them.

We have a Super League to win, come on you giants.

49 of us going on big stewarts trip , suppose its down to money wether a lot go or not , some will be broke after wembley

We have averaged 600 when we have been the bottom of the whole Rugby League not the top flight, we couldnt even dream of the top flight when we had those crowds

Are the club laying on coaches for this one?

bottom of the single division or bottom of two divisions? wow. that explains an average of 600. Tell you what you can use your superleague average of 3,392 in 2000 after 105 years to look down your nose on our level of interest. How does that work for you?
Im just disappointed that a club which has led the way in generating interest from a very low base, something other fans are always attacking you lot for, should be telling us that we have no pride and no interest.

Listen I started that off so I'll take the flak for the comment. Look I apologise for offending you, I didn't mean to. I still feel you are a nonsense club but there we go.

wow living up to your avatar i see. And how do you think catalans had an heartland to be in in the first place? Did it fall from the heavens or was it created by the hard work of pioneers, in a 'shock horror' rugby union area. You cant applaud welsh efforts in one breath and then tell us we are not a 'proper' club in another, this is our team and all your salivating over temporary problems wont alter that fact. Welsh rugby league people are putting their heart and soul into this club. You dont own the game and its not up to you to tell anyone whether they are a 'proper' team what ever the hell is supposed to be anyway.

Listen, let's just drop this because it ain't getting anywhere. You do your thing and I'll do mine.

Both of you stop it.

This is not a thread about expansion. Stay on topic or i wil lock it.

Anwars views are his own and do not reflect all Giants fans.

I fully support Celtic and that is why i will be travelling down on saturday.

You can buy me a pint then.

Celtic are not a nonsense club as you put it. Any promoted club always struggles to start with, and the team that comes into SL invariably has to ship out at least 75% of the team that got them there, and bring in better players. They are now a member of the RL fraternity and need all our support. So get behind them and stop putting the boot in.

Ok, I have some emotional ties to Widnes first and foremost...a relative of mine played for them when they were the cup kings and therefore I take an interest in how the are doing. Also looking at the criteria for a Super League license there were other teams which IMO tick more boxes, but I'm not the one making the decisions. I'm all for the Welsh having teams, I just feel they were promoted far too soon. I mean they have only been around for two years or so right? Now then if we had of lost our SL place to enable them to take part, how would you have felt about it? A few more years in the national leagues would have done them no harm IMO and that way we get to see how viable they are.

hey,i've no problem at all with Celtic Crusaders mate - think you may have the wrong person



and it was bottom of 2 divisions - the proper pits of RL

Maybe so, but thats a point to take up with the RFL more so than the fans of Celtic, and to an extent their club, overall surely its still the RFL at blame.

The RFL are a joke, the whole way the thing was handled was a shambles. Come on people have said alot worse things about our club than I did about Celtic and I have offered an apology for upsetting the dude so what more can I say? I have my views about RFL and Celtic, which at the end of the day have no bearing whatsoever on anything so why worry!!!