Visitd Bridgend for the first time yesterday and have come back with a much better impression of having RL teams in Wales than before I arrived. I have been one of the biggest critics of Celtic's rise to SL and still feel that you should have done another few years in the National Leagues, but there it is....all of that is not the fans fault and you have now got to make the most of the opportunity you have been given. I hope you can attract more fans when you move to Newport and I will definately be coming back down next season, I now understand why we should get behind RL in Wales. Good luck for next season!

Cheers, much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the visit and hopefully we'll be putting a better show on in every department next year.

thanks mate, nice to hear from someone with an open mind. glad you had a nice trip and i think you will enjoy coming to newport next year. hopefully your teams visit will get the crowd it deserves. personally of the all teams we should be learning from huddersfield is top of the list, the way you guys have stuck by your team and turned things round is inspiring. good luck in the play offs.

I went to the Celtic game yesterday and want to say what a great set of fans you have.

I talked to a good few and offered good luck for next season. It is not quantity that counts but quality and your fans were a credit to the team.

I talked to 4 blokes from Leith

who were great and evne the drunks behind the posts were a laugh.

Good luck for next year. definitely the friendliest fans i have found in SL.

Yes nice to catch up with Vicky and the gang had a great weekend, regroup and see you next season You are as passionate about rugby league as any fans i have met even in the adversity you are having. GOOD LUCK


Welsh Git was a bit poorly this morning

Neath?

yh was a brilliant experience going to celtic nice little place bridgend

cant wait to go next season to the new home

hopefully u will get brian noble no offence to ur coach now hu is a good coach hopefully if noble does go he will keep him as part of the coaching staff

but u should get some decent players with noble and start to build into a playoff challenging team just like catalan

good luck with your development hope to come to wales for many years to come

had a good day on saturday and met some nice, friendly passionate people who deserve a succesful RL team in wales.
shame about the crowd from a crusdaders POV,but im sure ocne the club gets sorted they will come.

good luck from me see you next year

yechid da!

he wasn't intoxicated was he?

Bring on the move to Newport.

interesting.
i was chatting to a couple of lads at the riverside tavern after the game, and they said they wouldn't be going to newport because it was a bridgend club,i pointed out that surely its a welsh club??
but i guess some people would rather see the club stay at the brewery and not try and move on.

had a great weekend in wales , everybody very friendly and interested in why we were there , had two great nights , celtic fans were very good to us , defo be going next year , anyone going should make a long weekend of it , beer not bad , brains beer ?? strange name , good ale

you sould not even be in the league get widnes or halifax in

Why? We beat them both in NL1.

And don't give me that illegal player knackers.

They were "illegal" in 2007 and have been disproportionately punished for that.

In 2008, when we beat BOTH Widnes and Halifax in the league, they were legal.

Did you not enjoy the visit then, the posters on here seem to wish us well etc.?

Would also be nice if you backed up your statements with a bit of reason. Will be interesting to read your response.





























BTW no response will back up my view that you're a muppet!

Why not....CHEATS

I know we've got an increased quota for overseas players from the RFL due to being an expansion area, what I didn't realise was that RL Fans let us have an increased 'muppets posting from other boards' quota as well.

Actually given how stupid you are I think we may have exceeded it as you are clearly worth three of the usual run of the mill muppets and we were close to the quota before that.

OOOO what a scawy scween name you have there! Is ickle demon ANGWY at us 'en?

Good luck next season fellas. Really hope RL can work down there.

You wouldn't have beaten anyone in NL1 without those illegal players. You wouldn't even have been in NL1 without those players.

Bragging about any victory in NL1 and NL2 is a bit of a cheek to be honest.

Pepe,

You can't know what we'd have won without those players who made an admin error.

And it's quite clear they were only "illegal" in 2007.

In the 2008 season their visas were in order so were "legal" when we beat you 3 times in the same season.

That UKBA decided to disproportionately punish them for this 2 years later does not detract from the fact that they were "legal" in 2008 and 2009.

Still, can't expect an unbiased opinion from a Widnes whiner eh?

Tell you what, go get your mates to come troll this thread for a few more days. Since Leigh went down, we've missed Starbug so there is an opening for a new troll.

Auditions below please:

You can argue until you are blue in the face that 'Visa Gate' was nothing more than an administrative cock-up, and you'll convince no-one that all six players being here illegally was a simple over-sight. Clearly these six players would not have received Visas for 2008 and 2009 had the UKBA been aware, at the time they were granted, that these players had been playing as professionals while using inappropriate visas for the previous two years. Hence, despite having Visas for this season, they were sent home before the season had ended and are now unable to enter Britain for the next 10 years. Any visas they had over the last two years would be void too. In other words they have been here illegally since they started playing for the Crusaders.

Bragging about this period, when your club has brought the game in to disrepute, will just anger all but the most zealous expansionist RL fans. It's best forgotten for you lot, it really is.


I have no wish to be a troll on your board. I actually hope RL becomes popular in Wales and wish the decent Celtic supporters well. I hope you stay in SL and prosper.

Well we'll not convince YOU with written evidence. But whatever we do would be wrong in your eyes.



Are you the official spokesman for rugby league fans then? It angers you, and several on your board and a few others who troll here. But my personal experience is that most supporters I have met at games think very differently.



Possibly, I'll offer the benefit of the doubt on that one. But you hide it well sometimes.

I take it you don't read the RL press?



Why the hell would I lie?



I'm an anonymous message board user who'll have no come backs no matter what I write here.

What I said was genuine. RL fans in South Wales must be doing it tough enough without dick heads on these boards slagging them off too.

well said grendel. i'm proud of what those lads achieved for us no matter what our rusted on enemies say. the closeness we have with all the players means more to us then the rest of the crap and nothing from widnes whiners will change that.