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| Out of those listed Frostie think Thacks, Raynor (though a pending court case), Stosic and White would be the only one's available / worth going for!
Can't see Fauimuina coming back to SL again, and he has some real issues! Byrne & Rauhihi retired. Marlon Alker, Hudds lads and Gravees unlikley to be better quality then Welsh lads on boad and also be alot more expensive! Think the French lads are staying in France as there domestic gae certainly seems to be growing better now!
White not great but versatile and knows the league, Martin is a good solid SL , Raynor is pure quality, but question marks on his release surely! Ans Stosic could be great could be avaerage but at this late stage certainly worth a punt! Thackery, well you know what you get and would add spice to any SL pack! With Younquest they'd all be good additions to a squad no doubt about that!
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| Quote Hatfield tiger="Hatfield tiger"I thought the whole point of the welsh franchise was develope the pool of welsh players. You are a development team and therefore so long as the welsh talent pool is being developed do you need to be hugely competitive?
What was =#FF0000last years team then. It was not competitive and it was not full of welsh players'"
6 players with a history of having the wrong visa,s 
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| Quote Frosties.="Frosties."Gateshead Thunder full-back Nick Youngquest.'"
His full name is Nick F-ing Youngquest. From LER to SL in two years ...
What's happened to all the Welsh players?
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| Youngquest played for Gateshead last year. Looked bloody awful when he played at Fev!! Didn't rate him even at that level.
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| He had 2 decent games against us last year , although he does seem to have a bit of an ' attitude ' 
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| Played well against us as well, though didn't look like playing below his level at all.
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| Quote Frosties.="Frosties."Thackray, Bryne, Raynor (HULL), Martin, Stosic, Petersen (WAKEFIELD), Rauhihi (WARRINGTON), Stacul, Bentley (CATALANS), [uFuimina[/u (CASTLEFORD), Alker, White (SALFORD), Walsh, Lawson (HUDDERSFIELD), Graves (HARLEQUINS) are the only released players in super league left.
However, Sporting Life mentioned a few week back when you found out that Michael Witt had signed that also thought to have signed Tony Martin and Gateshead Thunder full-back Nick Youngquest.'"
I think the fuzz would love to know where he is, as he is currently on the run and will never come back to this country as he is facing a stretch.
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| People are saying having celtic in superleague is good for the welsh game then they fill their squad with aussies no-one else wants!!! its disgraceful and you should be kicked out of superleague
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| watched him on a number of times seems a really good player in my opinion, him and winterstein seem good aqusitions (spelling not sure lol) could see raynor,stosic and white maybe thackary joining them down there alker is he not the assistant at salford now?
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| I guess it is better if they fill the side with second rate GB players than second rate Ozzies. Still, I'd rather see them play some Welsh academy players, even if it means they lose as many games as last year.
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| Quote belgianxiii="belgianxiii"I guess it is better if they fill the side with second rate GB players than second rate Ozzies. Still, I'd rather see them play some Welsh academy players, even if it means =#FF0000they lose as many games as last year.'"
If that happens then the whole shebang will fold , they need to be competitive to draw fans from the heartland clubs , if the games are a foregone conclusion less will bother going
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| Quote Westgate6="Westgate6"watched him on a number of times seems a really good player in my opinion, him and winterstein seem good aqusitions (spelling not sure lol) could see raynor,stosic and white maybe thackary joining them down there alker is he not the assistant at salford now?'"
Malcolm Alker is still a player at Salford. Marlon Alker has been released.
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| Noble should be looking to take 2 or 3 players from top clubs reserve grades on season long loans or even 2- 3 month deals.
Brian McDermott has done great with this over the years.
There are players like darryl goulding, Karl Pryce and liam farrell who would be good additions on 3 month loan deals.
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| Quote J20="J20"Played well against us as well, though didn't look like playing below his level at all.'"
Aint hard to play well against Widnes 
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| If you signed Stosic he would be the best prop at your club by far. Great hard working prop. Think Winterstein will really develop too, showed a couple of flashes of what he was capable of at Wakey but mainly due to injuries didn't get a good run in the team, will be interesting to see how he goes. In Martin you've got a very astute experienced player who is a model professional. Still think you will struggle but you should go better than last season.
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| Quote pyeman="pyeman"I think the fuzz would love to know where he is, as he is currently on the run and will never come back to this country as he is facing a stretch.'"
On the plus side of things , moving to Wrexham increases the exposure of the game in the Principality.
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"
If that happens then the whole shebang will fold , they need to be competitive to draw fans from the heartland clubs , if the games are a foregone conclusion less will bother going'"
They need to draw some paying home support to make a go of it.
Starting over again trying to attract another new set of fans is a big ask , probably too big.
Don't know what the local public think of the situation , but to me it appears that the venture is a way to keep the football club afloat as much as anything.
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| The club need to employ a bloody good marketking manager and also to get in to the local schoold with loads of free tickets. Kids will need their parents to take them.
The first game of the season against leeds will be a big event and should be marketed accordingly. I just hope you have signed enough quality to allow you to compete
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| Quote Captain Dave="Captain Dave"On the plus side of things , moving to Wrexham increases the exposure of the game in the Principality.'"
Captain Dave,
I'm not digging at you for not knowing about population distribution in Wales. But we have a population of 3 million in Wales. 3/4 of this population lives in South Wales along the M4 corridor. That's 2,250,000 along 100 miles of motorway. The entire rest of Wales houses the remaining 750,000. So given that roads in rural and North Wales are often little more than donkey tracks with tarmac on them and that most clubs in any sport can reasonable expect HOME fans to travel no more than an hour to come see them, it has an optimistic catchement area of, say, 200,000.
So.... given that Celtic Crusaders had an average attendance of 3,500 in a catchment area of 2 million and generously factoring up interest from the gogs who have been denied much sport outside of a poorly supported football team that gets gates of 1,300, let's say that the Wrexham ANZACs will get home support of about 800.
Youy can add the loyal "THE Crusaders" fans who will be taking a minibus up too and you might get 806 home fans.
Here's hoping that the ANZAC games prove a draw to all the proper teams in SL (and Salford) so that the loyal new owner can achieve his stated aim of saving Wrexham FC!
As you can see, giving the ANZACs the Celtic Crusaders spot in SL is not exactly INCREASING the exposure of the game in Wales.
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| Quote Grendel="Grendel"Captain Dave,
I'm not digging at you for not knowing about population distribution in Wales. But we have a population of 3 million in Wales. 3/4 of this population lives in South Wales along the M4 corridor. That's 2,250,000 along 100 miles of motorway. The entire rest of Wales houses the remaining 750,000. So given that roads in rural and North Wales are often little more than donkey tracks with tarmac on them and that most clubs in any sport can reasonable expect HOME fans to travel no more than an hour to come see them, it has an optimistic catchement area of, say, 200,000.
So.... given that Celtic Crusaders had an average attendance of 3,500 in a catchment area of 2 million and generously factoring up interest from the gogs who have been denied much sport outside of a poorly supported football team that gets gates of 1,300, let's say that the Wrexham ANZACs will get home support of about 800.
Youy can add the loyal "THE Crusaders" fans who will be taking a minibus up too and you might get 80=#FF00006 home fans.
Here's hoping that the ANZAC games prove a draw to all the proper teams in SL (and Salford) so that the loyal new owner can achieve his stated aim of saving Wrexham FC!
As you can see, giving the ANZACs the Celtic Crusaders spot in SL is not exactly INCREASING the exposure of the game in Wales.'"
The bitterness is strong in you young Padwan 
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| Quote Grendel="Grendel"Captain Dave,
I'm not digging at you for not knowing about population distribution in Wales. But we have a population of 3 million in Wales. 3/4 of this population lives in South Wales along the M4 corridor. That's 2,250,000 along 100 miles of motorway. The entire rest of Wales houses the remaining 750,000. So given that roads in rural and North Wales are often little more than donkey tracks with tarmac on them and that most clubs in any sport can reasonable expect HOME fans to travel no more than an hour to come see them, it has an optimistic catchement area of, say, 200,000.
So.... given that Celtic Crusaders had an average attendance of 3,500 in a catchment area of 2 million and generously factoring up interest from the gogs who have been denied much sport outside of a poorly supported football team that gets gates of 1,300, let's say that the Wrexham ANZACs will get home support of about 800.
Youy can add the loyal "THE Crusaders" fans who will be taking a minibus up too and you might get 806 home fans.
Here's hoping that the ANZAC games prove a draw to all the proper teams in SL (and Salford) so that the loyal new owner can achieve his stated aim of saving Wrexham FC!
As you can see, giving the ANZACs the Celtic Crusaders spot in SL is not exactly INCREASING the exposure of the game in Wales.'"
So it doesn't look good then?
TBF I did remark in a later post that the move did look like a ploy to save the football team.
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"The bitterness is strong in you young Padwan
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Starbug who you calling YOUNG?
Yep, still bitter, but the population distribution statistics are STILL broadly correct. Admittedly the crowd figures can only be extrapolations, but based on catchment area I think I've been quite generous. With a catchment area 1/10th the size of Crusaders, a simplified extrapolation would say 350 home supporters.
Captain Dave,
You're dead on correct. Moss (the owner of the ANZACs) has stated in the press that buying and moving our ex-club would help secure the future of Wrexham FC
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| Quote Grendel="Grendel"Starbug who you calling YOUNG?
Yep, still bitter, but the population distribution statistics are STILL broadly correct. Admittedly the crowd figures can only be=#FF0000 extrapolations, but based on catchment area I think I've been quite generous. With a catchment area 1/10th the size of Crusaders, a simplified =#FF0000extrapolation would say 350 home supporters.
Captain Dave,
You're dead on correct. Moss (the owner of the ANZACs) has stated in the press that buying and moving our ex-club would help secure the future of Wrexham FC'"
I know this is about a Welsh club , but can we stick to English please 
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| Quote Grendel="Grendel"Captain Dave,
Here's hoping that the ANZAC games prove a draw to all the proper teams in SL (and Salford) so that the loyal new owner can achieve his stated aim of saving Wrexham FC!
Please ecplain your bitterness towards Salford? Nothing to do with the amount of tonkings we've handed out to your mickey mouse (now more than ever
) club over the past few years. I'm all for expansion in SL but sorry you should not have been leapfrogged into SL instead of Widnes, a proper SL club as you put it.(we'll forget the odd period of administration etc
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