we just want to get back to the league that we feel we belong in. Now and this is a big IF, if they manage somehow to come down to the championship next season and carry on for the next 3 years, they will be back in, leaving us in the championship for at least another 6 seasons.

hang tight fella , it may be sooner than 3 years . if this club or any goes into admin in the next 3 years they should be replaced that's more or less what was said . will it happen ? i don't know problem is the atmosphere is bad for quite a few clubs and if the RFL do wakey for it ...OR IF THEY HAD DONE THIS TIME then they have to the next time.

Something tells me Crusaders won't last beyond this season!

ermmmmm deffo dont think they will be here 2012

they the rfl ruined the welsh dream by fast tracking

Someone else who knows!

.... and from someone who is hardly Trinity's biggest fan.

Why would the Crusaders carry on? To rebuild for less profit for a future they know they can't sustain? Crusaders in Wrexham were in it for the cash, they said as much.

I reckon the RFL dropped one this time by guaranteeing a promotion and saying they won't expand. It ruled out the expansion possibility. I don't think they'll rule anything out next time, including going to a 15 or 16 team league. You'll get the same promise Widnes got, provide your chairman winds his neck in. If what Clan is saying is correct, and he is one of the few on here who is well-connected enough to know, the blame might lie nearer to the chairman than he would like.

The more the Halifax chairman speaks the more of a joke he looks, sore loser.

They couldn't even put a 9's night on properly, when we were there they closed the drinks/snack bar half way through the evening

Wrexham Fc's players have gone on strike as they've been told there is no chance of them getting paid this month as the money has run out. As they are owned by the same company I think its highly unlikely that the Crusaders will be around in its current guise next season.

if your stadium is built in the next 18 month i will run around the new ground with a fire work up my A$%e and have a tattoo saying richard lewis for mayor.

The rfl is corrupt end of. Halifax should have been given that chance

FFS not just about facilities

Now they tell us !!!!!
On Red Passion, just seen this.

"I genuinely don't think there is sufficient interest for a team other than super league in Wrexham. As sad as it is what has gone on (and I really enjoyed watching the Crusaders), a championship or C1 team would get a 500ish max at most once the season was up and running. Super League in Wrexham was great but we aint a rugby league town and I can't see many interested in dropping down the leagues (particulalry when there is no promotion to aim for) and the opposition are not exactly crowd pullers".

im not saying it is just about that paddy field but you should just fail on that alone. you have been saying your building a new stadium for about 10 years

You sure it's only Bradford you hate?

Will hold you to that and sell tickets!

Look, I'm fresh from spanking Chris Dalton on the VT, but I'm happy to spread the love.

So basically it's not all about the stadium, unless it's Wakefield, in which case it suddenly is, because we beat you on all the other criteria, I will wager.

FFS how many times do we have to say - if you read the various threads that have been ongoing on the subject, you will realise that we are upgrading BV until the PI decision on NM is known and if that goes in our favour then the build will start some time next year.

We will look forward to your apology when it comes out in the wash as to why Halifax didn't get a licence and it has nothing to do with us.

MODs is there any chance we can lock this thread and any other comparing us and Fax cos we are just going round in circles now. We are still getting people two days on coming on talking pap and I for one am getting sick of having to correct em.

Interesting take on things isn't it ? Well only watch SL , not the crappy Championship

And fans tell us to stop moaning and get on with it , the best bit is the one about promotion

don't care what he says really, halifax are in the lower reaches of league 1 so shouldn't even be considered imho! fev and leigh are more worthy .. now hop off back to your own boards and look for the sheep boys..

halifax and crusaders to mergw, they have some common ground...sorry mods if i aren't allowed to say that!

You probably are allowed just look like a bell for doing so imo

i dont get what they expected the outcome to be really. With Widnes already been given the nod from the chamionship, and crusaders favourites to get a license over us for expansion.....why so much uproar? Alot of us had little hope of staying up, so I dont know what halifax were hoping for. If crusaders had stayed in then would they have been having a paddy about them aswell?

No, because as Slugger has ably proved on the VT, some parts of the RL community seem to want it both ways; they're in favour of franchising in all circumstances [iexcept[/i the circumstance where WTW turn out to be better than someone else, in which case they're against it.

Don't tell the cas fans!!!