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Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:10 pm  
Absolutely BRILLIANT news and MASTERFUL marketing putting on a minority (to the point of being miniscule now in S Wales) sport in the main stadium for RU in Britain IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 6 NATIONS. p i s s i n g myself with laughter right now.
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Some might look at this as being harsh but I think it's fair. When are the Rugby League going to stop persisting with this fantasy expansion. If it hasn't worked by now, it never will! I'm all for reaching out to a wider audience with our game but not at the expense of historical clubs in the homelands.

Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:13 pm  
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Absolutely BRILLIANT news and MASTERFUL marketing putting on a minority (to the point of being miniscule now in S Wales) sport in the main stadium for RU in Britain IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 6 NATIONS. p i s s i n g myself with laughter right now.
If you don't like RL then why do you continue to post here?
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Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:34 pm  
No probs with RL. But the capriciousness of the RFL is worthy of comment and I think my feelings about the Crusaders' continued hypocritical efforts to pretend they still give an excrement about South Wales are reasonably well known.

MM shafted Wales like Crusaders shafted South Wales. I'll speak out for as long as it holds my interest. Ban me if you like. I've actually tried to delete my account before but there doesn't seem to be a procedure for doing so. I know that most messageboard "moderators" only support free speech insofar as it agrees with their prejudices. So prove me right. Bin me. Otherwise shut yer whining and learn to accept or counter dissenting views without "taking offence"
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Some might look at this as being harsh but I think it's fair. When are the Rugby League going to stop persisting with this fantasy expansion. If it hasn't worked by now, it never will! I'm all for reaching out to a wider audience with our game but not at the expense of historical clubs in the homelands.

Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:13 pm  
Bizarre rant aside, Cardiff was outbid by Edinburgh for the Magic Weekend. You cannot blame the RFL, if the Cardiff tourist board was no longer interested then they had no option but to look elsewhere. I don't think it was ever intended to be a Welsh-exclusive event, and it honestly baffles me that you can develop and hold these strange grudges.
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Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:26 am  
I REALLY can't decide whether you're being thick or disingenuous (probably a bit of both).
Nobody is claiming anything is anti-Welsh you goon!
The RFL went money chasing to Scotland after bitching that the Millenium Stadium should have promoted the event better. The RFL didn't want to publicise their own event. Probably didn't want to pay any of the advertising budget for their own event then wondered why hardly any locals turned up.

The Crusaders, after mismanagement by Samuel and Turner, were meant to move to Newport but then p i s s e d off to Wrexham, treacherously abandoning new stadium plans in a desperate attempt to regain their underserved franchise on the cheap. They triumphantly trumpeted the "greater" fanbase. Novelty matches aside, the Great Betrayal netted them on average 600 extra attendees per match (probably the travel averse away fans that didn't attend in S Wales). THEN there is all the spin from Crusaders HQ that S Wales attendance was crap incomparison to Wrexham. Yeah 3 matches where the locals were curious, dismissed the sport as rubbish (wrongly IMO. It's just the club and the governing body that are rubbish) and never went again!

Spin it all you want Headhunter (it's obvious which little heads you hunt). You know you are playing to a tame audience that will vigorously agree with you. But deep down, under all the desperate denial, you KNOW I'm right.
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Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:52 am  
Actually i know you are wrong. You complete moron. Ok i'll take the time to take you apart.

1. The RFL has played it pretty smartly by the looks of it. Bitch about Cardiff, take it away, so cardiff wants it back and should promote it themselves. Yeah i can see how the RFL loved that one up. Looks like they have got the best of both ends. I love the way you seem to spout poop like it's fact too. Hillarious. The RFL shouldn't have to advertise around cardiff. They did a good job on Sky sports and in the papers telling people it was on. Cardiff couldn't give a poop ( probably the union idiots), so they missed out on a goldmine for a millenium stadium that has to be rented by the national team lol. It might actually be a good idea to put it in the middle of the six nations on the week off. Cardiff will hopefully still be buzzing from a couple of Wales Wins, and will just want to keep the booze train going through the 8 weeks that the six nations is on. An afternoon out in the millenium watching rugby is all the same.

2. I knew this. All your arguments have all come back to this. You are still a bitter little nobody that can't take the move to wrexham was the only option for the team, and can't get it through your thick skull that without Moss and wrexham the crusaders wouldn't have a team. It's hillarious that you seem to call it "treachory". So let me ask you this. For 95% of fans, would you rather have a super league team or not?

THERE WAS NO FINANCIAL BACKER THAT WANTED US IN SOUTH WALES YOU GOON. WITHOUT WREXHAM STEPPING IN WE HAVE NOTHING, NADA, NOUGHT. But thats probably what you want, because you are just some bitter idiot. Yeah sure we had offers for the crusaders in the south, but samuel was never going to have to deal with the debt himself. So no one wanted the massive debt that samuel amassed because he is a retarded businessman.

3. Could you show me who was going to finance these new stadium plans? Hell why not show me the plans they had for a new stadium. I want definite plans, not just a couple of idea's that were posted in the papers. There was never any intention to build a new stadium in bridgend. Bridgend council didn't even want the new stadium. Shows how pathetic it all is.

4. The average attendance isn't 600 fans better off a game at all. Without the games in South Wales( which no one came too, because it wasn't advertised yet again) the average attendance for wrexham is 5209. Thats with Two massive Gates on the way. The saints game should bring in upwards of 8000, with well over 4000 sold already without the away support, and the hull game should bring in a minimum of 5000. Were does that leave your extra 600 fans? In wrexham there is an average fanbase for the crusaders of 3000-35000 fans, exactly the same as down here, in their first season. We had 3 seasons to build a fanbase, and people were still bitter that samuel owned the team.

5. So if you follow rugby league, how come your not interested in the scorpions? why bother to come to a message board to troll, i don't really understand. Is it because you have nothing better to do now since you don't follow the crusaders and can't bitch and moan about anything?

6. So whats going on then grendal. You will probably poop out and not reply to this message because deep down, under all the desperate denial, you KNOW I'm right.
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Some might look at this as being harsh but I think it's fair. When are the Rugby League going to stop persisting with this fantasy expansion. If it hasn't worked by now, it never will! I'm all for reaching out to a wider audience with our game but not at the expense of historical clubs in the homelands.

Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sun Aug 15, 2010 1:56 pm  
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I REALLY can't decide whether you're being thick or disingenuous (probably a bit of both).
Nobody is claiming anything is anti-Welsh you goon!
The RFL went money chasing to Scotland after bitching that the Millenium Stadium should have promoted the event better. The RFL didn't want to publicise their own event. Probably didn't want to pay any of the advertising budget for their own event then wondered why hardly any locals turned up.
No, they didn't want to pay one their own advertising budget when they had the option of someone else doing it for them, and paying them more money to stage the event there. There was no reason for the event to stay in Cardiff. It made every sense to move the event to Edinburgh, I'm not sure why you can't understand this.
The Crusaders, after mismanagement by Samuel and Turner, were meant to move to Newport but then p i s s e d off to Wrexham, treacherously abandoning new stadium plans in a desperate attempt to regain their underserved franchise on the cheap. They triumphantly trumpeted the "greater" fanbase. Novelty matches aside, the Great Betrayal netted them on average 600 extra attendees per match (probably the travel averse away fans that didn't attend in S Wales). THEN there is all the spin from Crusaders HQ that S Wales attendance was crap incomparison to Wrexham. Yeah 3 matches where the locals were curious, dismissed the sport as rubbish (wrongly IMO. It's just the club and the governing body that are rubbish) and never went again!
As Spongolium says, there were no buyers for the club in South Wales, the only buyer was in Wrexham. The club had the option of relocating to Wrexham or going bust. You must have been told this at least 20 times. Dismiss it as being a lie if you want, but the fact is that you have yet to inform any of us the identity of this mystery buyer who could have kept the Crusaders in South Wales, and nor did they identify themselves to the club. If there were any other buyers in the South then they would have surely been used, can you give any reasons why the club would relocate hundreds of miles away if they had the option to stay where they were?

I've never read the club trumpeting that they moved to Wrexham for greater attendances, nor have they criticised the fans from the South. Why would they ever want to do that? You've completely made that up. A lot of them still travel to watch the games.
Spin it all you want Headhunter (it's obvious which little heads you hunt). You know you are playing to a tame audience that will vigorously agree with you. But deep down, under all the desperate denial, you KNOW I'm right.
I don't 'know' you're right. You are a paranoid, over-dramatic idiot.
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Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:03 pm  
Spongy, I TRIED reading your post, but you seemed to get more enraged with every word and, like your team's management strategy, it became an incoherent mess. Don't try to argue mate. You don't have the ability. If that is what you call taking someone apart I pity you. to quote Mumford and sons "Tremble little Lion man, you'll never settle any of your scores".

Headhunter, what can I say? You spout lies lies and more lies. Keep doing it though. If you repeat it often enough it may become truth. I won't bother responding to the drivel that makes up the majority of your ridiculous post, but as regards your last and, as usual vastly inaccurate , statement.
1) I am not paranoid. You and Spongy and others ARE "out to get me" for my comments. That you are laughable little 2@s without the wit to do so doesn't change that fact.
2) I am not over dramatic. I am merely eloquent and like a good argument.
3) I am no idiot. That you are unable to understand my velid and incisive points suggests that there is ONE idiot in this little bicker and it ain't me.

Now SURELY that's gotta be worth a ban.
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Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:22 pm  
Tell you what though Spongy and Helmethunter, just to correct some of your lies:-
1. The buyer in South Wales was a Bridgend bid led by an ex-Crusaders club member, and backed by certain very successful businessmen and ex-rugby players. It is not my place to name them. No doubt you will deny this because that is what phuknuts like you always do.
2. Bridgend WERE keen to have the new stadium. It was all going ahead nicely until Samule, at Turnip's behest looked at a different site and a different developer. OBVIOUSLT the working drawings weren't done Spongy you 2@! The thing hadn't got to planning by the time your club had phukked off. But I could name the company and probably the design team if it did not break a confidence. If there were drawings, I COULD show them to you but you'd still not understand them. The fundng was to be part European area 1 funding, part clubs that were to use the stadium and part council. When the Crusaders shcat out, it all came tumbling down.
3. So you ARE claiming the 2 novelty matches to your average game attendance then? How doshonest of you. Well if you're doing that you have to count the shytte attendances at Neef too. Your attendances are no better than Bridgend's were.

Other than that, good effort (for idiots).
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Some might look at this as being harsh but I think it's fair. When are the Rugby League going to stop persisting with this fantasy expansion. If it hasn't worked by now, it never will! I'm all for reaching out to a wider audience with our game but not at the expense of historical clubs in the homelands.

Re: Millennium Magic is back? : Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:35 pm  
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1. The buyer in South Wales was a Bridgend bid led by an ex-Crusaders club member, and backed by certain very successful businessmen and ex-rugby players. It is not my place to name them. No doubt you will deny this because that is what phuknuts like you always do.
So in this case, why did the backer not put in a bid for the club? And if he did, then why did they choose to ignore it and move hundreds of miles away to a completely alien area instead of staying and building on the work that they had done? It would have been much easier to keep the club in South Wales if there was a buyer there. The fact that there wasn't any sort of concrete bid and that the club was about to go bust seems to have evaded you.
I am not paranoid. You and Spongy and others ARE "out to get me" for my comments
That's one of the best comments I have read on this forum. Tongue-in-cheek, surely? :)
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