Crusaders Friendly : Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:48 am  

4 days to go & as far as I can see, the trialist remain nameless.
Assuming Cake will decide who's playing after tonight's training, will our teamsheet contain a lot of A Trialist or will whatever cats are in the bag be let out?

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:07 pm  

I was going, but with it being moved to Wigan and seeing the team that we are putting out. I do not think that I will bother.
Lucky that I decided to drive as originally we were going by train












I had booked to go but seeing as how the game is now being played at Robin Park Wigan. Plus having seen the squad, I am not going to bother..

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:28 pm  

Victor wrote:

I was going, but with it being moved to Wigan and seeing the team that we are putting out. I do not think that I will bother.
Lucky that I decided to drive as originally we were going by train

Yes completely understandable. In retrospect I wonder if spending 10k on track suits was the way to go or whether a couple of k could have been siphoned off to pay for player recruitment.

This squad looks very similar to the Coleman one, and let’s be fair, early doors we were poor. I expect much better performances under Eccles but those early fixtures are going to be very difficult. Many of these guys have only really got experience of playing bottom end L1.










I had booked to go but seeing as how the game is now being played at Robin Park Wigan. Plus having seen the squad, I am not going to bother..

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:40 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

4 days to go & as far as I can see, the trialist remain nameless.
Assuming Cake will decide who's playing after tonight's training, will our teamsheet contain a lot of A Trialist or will whatever cats are in the bag be let out?

I can’t quite remember but I think we didn’t bother to announce a number of the later tide of Skolars we signed back in the Coleman era they just appeared. Juma, Greenlagh, Thomas etc. I think we may do similar this time or do one announcement along lines of “we are pleased to announce 7 (?) promising players on loan from our feeder team Skolars.” Or we are pleased to announce a strengthening of our links with the grass roots game down south….by signing 7 players from the conference.

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:42 pm  

BigTime wrote:

I can’t quite remember but I think we didn’t bother to announce a number of the later tide of Skolars we signed back in the Coleman era they just appeared. Juma, Greenlagh, Thomas etc. I think we may do similar this time or do one announcement along lines of “we are pleased to announce 7 (?) promising players on loan from our feeder team Skolars.” Or we are pleased to announce a strengthening of our links with the grass roots game down south….by signing 7 players from the conference.

When was Cake's last message to the people? Seems an age ago!

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:58 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

When was Cake's last message to the people? Seems an age ago!

Looking at this squad it seems like only yesterday. Pretty much all these players are Skolars or ex Skolars/Cornwall. Don’t tell me we’ve tucked up Skolars again just as they are trying to get some stability.

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:50 pm  

Game is off, which is a shame.

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:57 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Game is off, which is a shame.

Thought they'd moved it to Robin Park Arena in Wigan. Mixed blessings it's off. The team deffo need a run out before Bradfarts but a heavy defeat tomorrow might not be what the doctor ordered.

Re: Crusaders Friendly : Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:42 pm  

There's the cup match next week.