Its an absoulute disgrace, and if I was a Fax fan id be absoulutely fuming. How the hell can Wakefield possibly have a better application than Halifax??? Somebody please enlighten me. Belle Vue is an absoulute dump, they have been stringing people along with this "we are getting a new ground" for years, youth development and crowds are also pathetic, so, Wakefield are going to play at Belle Vue next season..........................What a farce.

the RFL governing body = joke, farce,
LEWIS OUT!

Iv been on VT, the Wakey board, the Halifax board, and have still not seen a valid reason for Wakefield having a better application than Halifax.

Better crowds, better youth /academy structure.

Better crowds is hardly a fair criterion to beat them with.

Wakey get Leeds, Wigan and Saints playing there. Halifax have Leigh, Batley and Widnes.

Rhys Hanbury is really laying into the club on Twitter:

I was thinking it was a bit weird signing my 3 yr deal on toilet paper #rubbish

Thanks for all the support from the fans. Do yourselves a favour and go support a different team. This club is #rubbish

I probably should of stated the owners r rubbish

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Crusaders last 5 games are going to be absolutely pointless.

You really think if Fax were in SL that Wakefield would get better crowds????????

both in the bigger scheme of things and cos they wont score a try

does that not apply to all super league clubs against Widnes too?

When both clubs were in SL, Fax were getting consistently better crowds than Wakey (apart from their disastrous 2003 season).

and another point is how they can say Leeds have an A grade stadium is beyond me maybe they should try standing in the pooring rain one night.
I also feel that somewhere in the licensing agreement there should be an encouragement to clubs to try and improve their away following as we have seen at Wigan this year even some of the so called 'A' grade clubs dont have strong away following and as been said n this forum before away fans make the atmosphere and much needed revenue for clubs and is very important in the success of super league.

Wakefield have gotten through by the skin of their teeth, and if this isn't the kick up the backside they needed to sort themselves out I dont know what is. Hopefully come 2014 all of the clubs in the SL are in a much better position along with 4 or 5 strong applications from the Championship.

The RFL love Headingley for some reason. Never a grade A stadium in a million years with that away stand. Nice to see several teams moving up a grade though, Saints should be an A team next time around and Salford, hopefully Cas and Wakey should all be in new stadia by then.

In three years Catalans may have their third new stand open, that will be some ground and a great atmosphere.
Leeds as an A grade is laughable. Open terracing and parts of the south stand still barricaded off as being unsafe!
All that work over months by the RFL then Crusaders bin it in the last 24 hours.
Were they persuaded to withdraw or did they take the RFL by surprise? That's what I'd like to know?

It comes down to more than just stadia and for that reason salford will never be an A grade.

id say most of Salford is Class A territory

Sorry that was badly worded, I was meaning Saints should be A grade. Separate point - Salford will have a new stadium. Realistically at the minute you would say only Saints and Hudds (Catalans maybe?) could join the 4 current A teams.

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Explains all my ! Didn't tell us anything we didn't already know! In what way was Wakefield's application stronger than Halifax's? That's what everyone wants to know right now. He also says that Crusaders took the decision to withdraw in consultation with the RFL. Sounds a bit fishy to me. Didn't anyone think that the Crusaders players should have known that this might have happened before today? Shambolic stuff

It's a very, very strange situation, but Crusaders did become irrelevant once they moved from South Wales. Did they jump, or were they pushed? That's the question. I wouldn't be surprised if they fold and the RFL tried again to establish a welsh team.

As for the rest: Quins should never go - if anything we should have another London club to jump on the bandwagon. How far away are the Skolars from the Quins?

Also, all this talk of Halifax/Wakefield etc, what's the point? They're all the same - small northern towns that won't improve SL. How about taking another chance and promoting Toulouse? Huge city, helps the game expand further in France, and gives Catalan a rival.

It meets the criteria for a Grade A stadium.

And how can another London improve SL when the present one can't.

Ryan O'Hara not happy on Twitter as well:

Players at Crusaders seem pretty ed off...



Ryan O'Hara:

"First they steal £100,000 off me, now they withdraw from SL to sleaze out of paying me. Fuck you crusaders owners you will get yours."


On another note... £100k!?

I thought RL players were earning peanuts.

Or another one in France. If today has taught us anything its that letting in "new" clubs before they are ready doesnt work. Crusaders shouldnt have been put in SL last time around. If things had been done properly they could have had three years down in Bridgend competing in the Championship and then had the possibility of being considered this time around. They were rushed in, had to move to north wales, bought loads of aussies and journeymen, offered very little to the comp., brought in hardly any speccies, werent making any money and ultimately wont be a SL team after this year.