: Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:51 am  

halifaxxx wrote:

we'll see
i believe my prediction would have shorter odds at the bookies

Not as short as your head being examined and not one brain cell found.

Now do one.

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:06 am  

Barry_McKenzie wrote:

I've been to Wales 3 times and always enjoyed it. The Welsh are decent enough people. They don't really like RL, but hey you can't have it all.

3 of us are travelling up to South Wales on Friday, we are having 2 nights in Cardiff, 2 of us will check out the Crusaders game.

I will give you a totally unbiased and truthful account of how I saw the match.


Barry McKenzies prediction???

Celtic 6 Leeds 42

Att: 2,985

well we have sold 3,500 tickets so maybe 600 people wont turn up! At least we will have their dosh.

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:43 am  

We are the standard bearers for Rugby League in Wales , despite the C**P we have taken since the licence application results and the visa issues earlier on this season we are still here and have lasted longer than any other professional RL club established in Wales. We have a growing and passionate support base for RL in Wales and its about to get much bigger wth the move to Newport. Yes the club has been poorly managed in the past but are any of the other clubs in this league or indeed the championship squeeky clean. I THINK NOT !!

WE ARE NOT DEAD..... WE WILL SURVIVE AND THRIVE !

We have achieved more in 3 years than some clubs in the heartlands have achieved in a century. No one ever said it was going to be easy. Its not an even playing field ,we are playing catch up on a massive scale.
I shall make my judgement when I hear the findings of the UKBA report.

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:49 am  

Yeah and with us, on the day slaes are usually equal to pre-sold & season ticket sales.

Admittedly Newport might be different, but I expect about 7,000 total.

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:50 am  

Sales not slaes

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:53 am  

I love it when they hate us

They are angrier than we are, and every day we survive makes them angrier.

Whatever frustrations we have as a team, THEY are practically foaming at the mouth, desperate for us to close so they can turn rugby league back into a local curiousity like cheese rolling or bog-snorkelling.

Out of interest, more people enter the world bog snorkelling world championships than the rugby league world cup. We'd LIKE to help that change, but if the magical land of M62 doesn't want us .....

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:55 am  

Cru, LOVE the new avatar. Ready for battle eh?

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:40 pm  

Funny how if Australia is such a wonderful place Barry, all its inhabitants seem to want to move here and work as bar staff or rugby league players.

I realise that the money is FAR better, but fair's fair.

I take it from your requirement for an XL shirt that you are a bit of a fatty? But surely if all you want to do is sell it, size should be irrelevant.

Are you a closet Crusader? Is there room in your closet for that secret too?

[Wheels]

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:48 pm  

Please can we keep the Celtic trolling in here please.

Anymore new threads and people will be taking a break from posting.

Cheers, Wheels.

: Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:02 pm  

Wheels - your autocractic approach will NOT deter me from my views - banned or not!

I don't consider that I have broken any forum rules until now - that of public criticism of the moderating process!

But to restrict the forums views purely to "pro-crusaders" on all but one thread, and how wonderfull all things is in the wonderful world of welsh RL on all others, is IMO, a restriction of 'free' airing of appropriate views and contrary to any constitutional right of anyone in this country and is unrepresentitive of peoples valid views!!

A very poor do!

I have some reservations about celtic crusaders - and I believe, I have expressed them appropriately.
This action will only serve to fuel the embittered reaction from those anti-celtic people. And no wonder.

A very poor do!