Re: harlequins game : Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:39 pm  

Funny how at the beginning of the season we were laughed at for having a team of has-been journeymen Ausies who couldn't get a job anywhere decent. Now we have won a few matches, they suddenly become "ringers". Hmmm sounds like sour grapes to me.

Re: harlequins game : Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:07 pm  

Just wondered why the Crusaders played the game at the Gnoll instead of at Wrexham??
Or was it to bring the game closer to their (supporters) in South Wales where the are actually from therefore boost the crowd figures.
Dont give me all this about fans not making the game because of the early kick off etc you were originally based in South wales so the majority of your support is there not in Wrexham.
Also it made it easier for the Larnden contingent to get there as its practically one straight road instead of P***ing about getting to wrexham.
Before long as it is going Crusaders will be playing in Chester to make it easier for the HEARTLAND supporters to get there.

Re: harlequins game : Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:28 pm  

Young Faithfull wrote:

You have to take into acount the games they play in south wales these are basically away games to Cru now as nobody or hardly anybody is intrested in league in the south of wales but in the north they pull in decent crowds plus there crowds will be down because of the fact that away fans have to travel vast distances compared to the clubs in the heartlands.

But i am sorry

Why do you not also take off the one off novelty value matches where you got ONE 10,000+ crowd (which you will never get again, to which the rest of the season's attendances are testament)?

"Hardly anybody is interested in League down south"?

In like for like matches you guys average 3900 attendance. The Celtic Cru were only 566 lower. Consider that you are now on the doorstep of the "heartland" teams so are probably getting at least 50% extra travelling fans. Considfer also that your foreign legion actually won a lot more matches than we did in 2009 and that TINY difference in attendances does not seem very impressive eh?

You would not HAVE a RL team if it were not for South Wales. Every team YOU tried to start up failed because you weren't handed a SL license.

You had to take OUR team to have your tiny limited success.

Gimp!

Re: harlequins game : Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:45 pm  

If you actually renamed yourselves Chester-somewhere near wales-Crusaders you would still have your franchise because youve still got Wales in the name!!!

Re: harlequins game : Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:45 pm  

You really should know what you are talking about before trolling. You and grendal, He's just bitter because the crusaders were forced to move up north after no one wanting us down south. If it wasn't for wrexham we wouldn't have the crusaders at all you dumb idiot.

Wallet mouth - The games were played in south wales because of a contractual obligation. The majority of our support does not come from south wales anymore. Do you really believe that >2500 travel to wrexham from south wales for every game. Don't be such an idiot.

Also grendal, when you see the figures that the crusaders will bring in, in the last two home games of the season, i believe you will have absolutly nothing to say. Considering they have sold 4000 tickets allready for the saints game, i wouldn't bet far from a sellout. Again hull take their fair few to away games, and it could be all or nothing for a play-off spot. Again will be a bumper crowd.

So say you get 8500 at saints, and a conservative 5000 at hull, thats quite a considerable upgrade on the 3600 we had on average at the brewery.

*and before you ask i'm from bridgend*

Re: harlequins game : Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:43 pm  

Spongolium wrote:

So say you get 8500 at saints, and a conservative 5000 at hull, thats quite a considerable upgrade on the 3600 we had on average at the brewery.

*and before you ask i'm from bridgend*

You mean Rovers, Robins or KR not Hull. Hull is Hull FC!

Re: harlequins game : Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:28 am  

heh heh, my bad

Re: harlequins game : Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:42 pm  

Grendel wrote:

Why do you not also take off the one off novelty value matches where you got ONE 10,000+ crowd (which you will never get again, to which the rest of the season's attendances are testament)?

"Hardly anybody is interested in League down south"?

In like for like matches you guys average 3900 attendance. The Celtic Cru were only 566 lower. Consider that you are now on the doorstep of the "heartland" teams so are probably getting at least 50% extra travelling fans. Considfer also that your foreign legion actually won a lot more matches than we did in 2009 and that TINY difference in attendances does not seem very impressive eh?

You would not HAVE a RL team if it were not for South Wales. Every team YOU tried to start up failed because you weren't handed a SL license.

You had to take OUR team to have your tiny limited success.

Gimp!

Wow insults and why are you refering to you as in Crusaders i dont support them im a FC fan and also i belive you are an old Crudaders fan and its true in the south of wales you were a huge flop that won 2 or 3 games i cant remember but now in the north they have decent crowds and are in 8th a huge improvement.

Gimp

Re: harlequins game : Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:31 pm  

Take it from someone who actually lives here there is a great interest in Rugby League here in South Wales.
Go into a pub here on a Friday night when the SL match is on and there plenty of people watching it often over whatever football might be on as well. Unfortunately the Celtic Crusaders was the vicitm of poor timing and bad financial managment in building too quickly enough , why Heartland fans expect a club in a non traditional area to suddenly compete with them in terms of attendances and set up is astounding to be honest. The Celtic Crusaders was not given enough time to settle and establish local support and playing foundations either , I sincerely hope the Crusaders are on both fronts. Then we might finally be able to see some real long term benefits and establishing Rugby League professionally as a Sport of choice for the people of Wales, North or South.

The great Behemoth that is Union here can't honestly testify to that yet either.

Re: harlequins game : Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:52 am  

cardiffcrusaderrob wrote:

Take it from someone who actually lives here there is a great interest in Rugby League here in South Wales.
Go into a pub here on a Friday night when the SL match is on and there plenty of people watching it often over whatever football might be on as well. Unfortunately the Celtic Crusaders was the vicitm of poor timing and bad financial managment in building too quickly enough , why Heartland fans expect a club in a non traditional area to suddenly compete with them in terms of attendances and set up is astounding to be honest. The Celtic Crusaders was not given enough time to settle and establish local support and playing foundations either , I sincerely hope the Crusaders are on both fronts. Then we might finally be able to see some real long term benefits and establishing Rugby League professionally as a Sport of choice for the people of Wales, North or South.

The great Behemoth that is Union here can't honestly testify to that yet either.

I will take your point but the fact was the south Cru were brought into superleague to soon and should of been in NL 1 for a couple of years to build up a good fanbase bring in some welsh talent to get rid of the team full of aussies argument. But the RFL are expansion mad and forced a ill prepared Cru side to take a leap about a hundred feet to far for the club at that time.