5 players have been released by the Crusaders so far are

Luke Dyer is leaving for personal reasons
Nick Youngquest as gone to Cas (confirmed)
Tommy Lee is going to Wakefield
Rocky Trimarchi released
Jamie Thackray released

whys luke going? / off back to Aus?

I dont know mate he just told a few of our fans on his twitter page that he is leaving for personal reasons

Gutted

That's bad news - Luke has been immense and especially yesterday. If the club had known about him leaving wonder if they would have released Nick Youngquest. Both on overseas quota? Or is Dyer classed as British if he is a Welsh international?

I've read this thread and if Dyer, Youngquest,Mills, Thackray, Trimarchi and Lee are the ones you are binning and you are signing Reardon I think you have made sensible decisions.

I think Witt, Sammut, Schifcofski and O'Hara are the key players to hold on to.

I would add mellars and hayraki to that list

i know that i was talkin about mellars and hauraki

i see ben flower and lewis mills have been released aswell very strange seen as tho there 1 of the better welsh players

Reardon is 100% a Crusaders player next year.

mark calderwood and ewan dowes would be good signings for the crusaders, they look as tho they will be going from us as they aint contracted for next season and its very unlikely that both will be given contracts? then theres a few other players who aint got a contract at the moment players such as karl pryce and cameron phelps who could make decent signings. if someone could put a list on for all the players and how long there contracted for that would be great, hopefully the majority of the team will be the core of the team next season with a few good signings to improve the squad.

Read today in the Wakefield Express that Matty Blaymire is heading you way, anybody heard anything about this down there?

blaymire would be a strange signing seen as though hes a fullback and with the impressive performances from schkoski or whatever you call him and the young up and coming elliot kear whos a great potentail.

Schifcofske is offski, as are a number of other key players.

Maybe we are signing him as a , If he can defend well and catch high bombs we'll make allowances for his lack of pace. Reardon on one wing and our fantastic new winger with pace to burn on the other. At least we hope he will if we ever find out who he is!

but woundt you have mellars and martin as centres?

Martin is a good player but he is very injury prone. Went off injured against Saints, finished KR game on one leg. Hamstring went again 20 minutes into Hudds play off game, couldn't continue second half.

Vinnie confirmed he signed at Crusaders on Twitter so only Weller to go. Your considerations not up to much are they Gassy?

He may be injury prone but when on the field our defence improves tenfold, he is the reason we didnt continue to leak points on our flanks when he ca,e back from injury mid season, also attack wise he gives us another outlet to create things and even at 30 something he still has some legs on him!

When Martin hamstring went 20 mins into the Hudds game our attacking game stalled. It was a big risk for Nobby to play him after he limped off against Hull KR and unfortunely for us it didn't come off, we didn't really have any other opitions to cover at . I'm happy if Martin stays but he's never going to be fit to play all season. It makes sense to sign some cover for him and Mellers.

thats a huge relief think hauraki will probably stay as well now

Mellars confirmed on Twitter that Hauraki is staying, and says the team will be even stronger next season.



Jarrod Sammut has also confirmed he is "still a Crusader" on his own Twitter page, after mentioning that it was negotiation time or something similar last week.

What's to be happy about? Reason you was brought into rugby league was to develop the game in Wales, re-signing Aussies and kolpack players is proving your wasting everyones time, despite what excuse you make you are playing with a team full of overseas and because there grandad once spoke to a welsh man does not mean they qualify to be welsh, in your 1st super league season you played the tigers when you got found out for foul work permits and there was a nice blend of welsh talent now all wasted!! If they want a welsh team bring in south Wales scorpions who are actually using welsh talent! Yes I am ranting but your time in super league is pointless because we could all make top 8 with tonnes of Aussies and problem is aslong as you keep them they will qualify to play, how unjust is that? You should be playing born and bred welsh and super league clubs should be playing born and bred English or even a mixture with both, It's no good for our youngsters and current players when a second Aussie takes his place, no wonder rugby league is a joke and at the minute so are you as a club, worst thing is you haven't actually got a club name with a welsh town in it, It's wake wildcats, cas tigers and Leeds rhinos and hello it's the crusaders! JOKE!!

Pointless rant. Like it or lump it.

What are you talking about, he has signed for another year