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Excellent , lets call them the Celtic Crusaders

Christian book shop in Tehran, Hamburger stall at a vegetarian food festival etc etc etc

Glamorgan Celtic sounds good to me or adapt the union club name Bridgend/Glamorgan Ravens ala halrequins style as if it is BFL run it shall be half owned by the union team anyhows.!

leighton samuels getting fed up. Rfl complicit in crusaders plight and managing the game dreadfully.
Crusaders fold.
League to re-start back in the south.
Ok it's a scenario. But one that is being predicted by some of the people i know in the game.

I never ever will subscribe to the licensing system or celtics inclusion in sl. But, if thats how it was to be, then the game should have been run and promoted in the south, building up a fan base and local league participation in the sport.
What we have left is a half @rsed nomadic effort that lacks any identity anymore, leaving the south (for now at least) the subject of tokenism from the rfl.

NEW SOUTH WALES

got to be

Very funny starbug, mind you if Gasteshead hadn't ask to go down a division we'd have been playing Leigh

You jumped ship already

Australian in the UK?

As an expansionista, I'm all for it - the more the merrier

Should'nt that be

OLD SOUTH WALES

Or

NEW OLD SOUTH WALES

A team in Bridgend will be great news, I'm so glad all that brilliant hard work done will not be wasted. Who knows in 5 + we might even be looking at a Welsh SL Derby game? Wishful thinking or fact?

You are just trying to wind me up now arent you

Well, they did say that at least one club would get promoted from NL1. How's about a double whammy of Toulouse and Bridgend, expanding SL by two teams?

I'm not winding anyone up. I would rather see a club from Bridgend in the Championship than No club in Bridgend. I think the area has great hard working grass routes RL people doing a good job. It's not SL but it gives a route through to pro RL for South Welsh players.

Me too , but just dont mention those two little words

What you mean there are two ships?

Seriously I'd try and follow the two of them, only been watching the game for two years and seriously hooked.

Me too.

I watched it on TV but much better in real life.

All a result of going to Millennium Magic (the first one) on a whim. Never looked back since.

That was the reason I was gutted it left here as I know there are a lot more like us who would be hooked.

That's a shame. Welsh clubs always seem to beat Leigh.

What would be the effect on the Crusaders if a new Welsh club were put into Bridgend - would all those from South Wales who are Crusaders season tickets give up trekking to Wrexham and throw their weight behind a Bridgend project?

I really feel for the Crusaders fans at present - if, as I suspect the club are ripped away from the South and put in Wrexham, it is a shocking way to treat people who brought season tickets expecting to watch Super League in South Wales.

English clubs do too

Most of them beat W1g4n at the moment as well

During the off season?

The Championship Club (not the Crusaders) will be playing in NEATH



The Crusaders may also play some Superleague games in Neath.