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[Barrow Phantom]

Crusaders have been given the thumbs up to continue in Super League.

Uncertainty over the future of the Wrexham-based club was ended when the Rugby Football League gave chairman Ian Roberts and his fellow director Geoff Moss the go-ahead to resume their ownership.

They called in the administrators earlier this month in a bid to escape the debts, thought to be in excess of £1million, inherited when taking over the Bridgend-based Celtic Crusaders this time last year.

But the pair reached an agreement with the RFL, who are thought to be one of the main creditors, following lengthy talks on Monday evening and the club is now expected to emerge from administration, possibly with a new name and almost certainly a points deduction for the 2011 season.

"We had a long and very productive meeting yesterday and reached agreement on all matters of substance," said RFL chief executive Nigel Wood.

"Both Ian and Geoff understand and actually agree with the need to deal properly with certain liabilities and, to their credit, have made provision to do so.

"The potential for rugby league in north Wales is self evident and the circumstances now exist for the club to flourish and succeed under Ian and Geoff's ownership."

The Wrexham consortium must now come to an agreement with the administrators to regain control of the club but joint administrator Simon Weir is not expecting any last-minute hitches.

"Now they have the thumbs up from the RFL, we need to get on with the sale document," he said.

"We've had discussions in principle - figures have been discussed - so I'm not anticipating any problems."

The governing body are keen to preserve the Wrexham club following their encouraging first season at the Racecourse Ground in which they reached the Super League play-offs and build on the success of the Welsh national side, who will feature in the 2011 Four Nations Series after retaining the European Cup this year.

Crusaders have begun pre-season training under new head coach Iestyn Harris and were included in the 2011 Super League fixture list.

Roberts said: "We were always committed to the club and to the future of rugby league in north Wales but we did need some clarification on some of the obligations facing the club going forward as a condition on re-entry.

"The meeting was very productive and we are excited about the potential of Super League in north Wales and our business plan will enable us to go forward with renewed enthusiasm."

Crusaders' re-admission is subject to formal approval by the RFL's board of directors, who will also decide on a likely points deduction after the club breached the game's insolvency regulations.

[TOON]

I could of told you they would ............................

[southsider]

Crusaders have been given the thumbs up to continue in Super League.

Uncertainty over the future of the Wrexham-based club was ended when the Rugby Football League gave chairman Ian Roberts and his fellow director Geoff Moss the go-ahead to resume their ownership.

They called in the administrators earlier this month in a bid to escape the debts, thought to be in excess of £1million, inherited when taking over the Bridgend-based Celtic Crusaders this time last year.

But the pair reached an agreement with the RFL, who are thought to be one of the main creditors, following lengthy talks on Monday evening and the club is now expected to emerge from administration, possibly with a new name and almost certainly a points deduction for the 2011 season.

"We had a long and very productive meeting yesterday and reached agreement on all matters of substance," said RFL chief executive Nigel Wood.

"Both Ian and Geoff understand and actually agree with the need to deal properly with certain liabilities and, to their credit, have made provision to do so.

"The potential for rugby league in north Wales is self evident and the circumstances now exist for the club to flourish and succeed under Ian and Geoff's ownership."

The Wrexham consortium must now come to an agreement with the administrators to regain control of the club but joint administrator Simon Weir is not expecting any last-minute hitches.

"Now they have the thumbs up from the RFL, we need to get on with the sale document," he said.

"We've had discussions in principle - figures have been discussed - so I'm not anticipating any problems."

The governing body are keen to preserve the Wrexham club following their encouraging first season at the Racecourse Ground in which they reached the Super League play-offs and build on the success of the Welsh national side, who will feature in the 2011 Four Nations Series after retaining the European Cup this year.

Crusaders have begun pre-season training under new head coach Iestyn Harris and were included in the 2011 Super League fixture list.

Roberts said: "We were always committed to the club and to the future of rugby league in north Wales but we did need some clarification on some of the obligations facing the club going forward as a condition on re-entry.

"The meeting was very productive and we are excited about the potential of Super League in north Wales and our business plan will enable us to go forward with renewed enthusiasm."

Crusaders' re-admission is subject to formal approval by the RFL's board of directors, who will also decide on a likely points deduction after the club breached the game's insolvency regulations.

Stinks to high heaven.
Once again the numpties at Red Hall are making our game a laughing stock.

[SRC]

Meanwhile ......... RIP Blackpool. Corrupt is probably not a strong enough word.

[bwa]

Its OK helping the so called expansion clubs to settle, but
why should it be at the expense of others.
Widnes and now Blackpool must be fuming and we missed out on promotion to them.
In fact, probably every team in all divisions have been affected in some way or another.
I know they beat us to the title a few years ago but even then they were full of illegal aussies (nothing against ozzys mate)
Its the same old 'one rule for them etc'
Talk about level playing fields and moving the goal posts, this game will never settle until there is some continuity.(bloody RFL)

[Thirty Three]

Crusaders have been given the thumbs up to continue in Super League.

Uncertainty over the future of the Wrexham-based club was ended when the Rugby Football League gave chairman Ian Roberts and his fellow director Geoff Moss the go-ahead to resume their ownership.

They called in the administrators earlier this month in a bid to escape the debts, thought to be in excess of £1million, inherited when taking over the Bridgend-based Celtic Crusaders this time last year.

But the pair reached an agreement with the RFL, who are thought to be one of the main creditors, following lengthy talks on Monday evening and the club is now expected to emerge from administration, possibly with a new name and almost certainly a points deduction for the 2011 season.

"We had a long and very productive meeting yesterday and reached agreement on all matters of substance," said RFL chief executive Nigel Wood.

"Both Ian and Geoff understand and actually agree with the need to deal properly with certain liabilities and, to their credit, have made provision to do so.

"The potential for rugby league in north Wales is self evident and the circumstances now exist for the club to flourish and succeed under Ian and Geoff's ownership."

The Wrexham consortium must now come to an agreement with the administrators to regain control of the club but joint administrator Simon Weir is not expecting any last-minute hitches.

"Now they have the thumbs up from the RFL, we need to get on with the sale document," he said.

"We've had discussions in principle - figures have been discussed - so I'm not anticipating any problems."

The governing body are keen to preserve the Wrexham club following their encouraging first season at the Racecourse Ground in which they reached the Super League play-offs and build on the success of the Welsh national side, who will feature in the 2011 Four Nations Series after retaining the European Cup this year.

Crusaders have begun pre-season training under new head coach Iestyn Harris and were included in the 2011 Super League fixture list.

Roberts said: "We were always committed to the club and to the future of rugby league in north Wales but we did need some clarification on some of the obligations facing the club going forward as a condition on re-entry.

"The meeting was very productive and we are excited about the potential of Super League in north Wales and our business plan will enable us to go forward with renewed enthusiasm."

Crusaders' re-admission is subject to formal approval by the RFL's board of directors, who will also decide on a likely points deduction after the club breached the game's insolvency regulations.

"The potential for rugby league in north Wales is self evident and the circumstances now exist for the club to flourish and succeed under Ian and Geoff's ownership."

Bloody hell Nigel, its already more than established in Cumbria, but would the RFL consider Barrow Raiders future so favourably if we were in the same predicament?

I can't understand why the RFL have not even mentioned the potential of a franchise from Cumbria. It seems keen to back it in all the areas where it seems to fail. Imagine the potential of a Barrow Raiders side in the SL with the amount of backing, let alone money that that the RFL seem to be handing, argueably wasting on these teams.

Crazy. Just absolutely crazy. So if Crusaders start with a points deduction and more than likely finish bottom, will the RFL take the franchise off them at the end of this coming season? I don't think so given they are one of the main creditors. I feel sorry for the team that will be booted out of SL at their expense! Even a Crusaders fan would struggle to justify the logic in that one?

Ce message a été modifié par Thirty Three - 01 décembre 2010 - 08:16 .

[Baaarrow]

Bloody hell Nigel, its already more than established in Cumbria, but would the RFL consider Barrow Raiders future so favourably if we were in the same predicament?

I can't understand why the RFL have not even mentioned the potential of a franchise from Cumbria. It seems keen to back it in all the areas where it seems to fail. Imagine the potential of a Barrow Raiders side in the SL with the amount of backing, let alone money that that the RFL seem to be handing, argueably wasting on these teams.

Crazy. Just absolutely crazy. So if Crusaders start with a points deduction and more than likely finish bottom, will the RFL take the franchise off them at the end of this coming season? I don't think so given they are one of the main creditors. I feel sorry for the team that will be booted out of SL at their expense! Even a Crusaders fan would struggle to justify the logic in that one?

Well Gaz, you already know what I think about that useless slimy toad Mr Wood !!!!!

RP

[fozzy3]

did anyone really expect anything else from the rfl if sky are going to have complete control of the rugby leagues they may as well ask them to take over from the coop and re-name the leagues sky super league and sky championships.murdoch has got the likes of wood and lewis by the balls which inturn leads to what is happening within the game no promotion and no relegation from their super duper league.of course unless a new area starts to play the game which has hardly any sky customers its all about putting dishes on houses and making the murdoch empire even larger than it already is.the only real chance of this changing is if the likes of richard branson comes in and undercuts murdochs sky package whic will never happen cause sky has gotten to big.

[ruggerbeleeg]

Quite a large amount of this debt seems to be owed to the RFL themselves!

Purely on finacial grounds they had to keep them alive or write of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

AND

Their the ones that lecture everyone else about being more responsible about handling their finaces.

Yer right a great example your setting RFL, NOT.

Ce message a été modifié par ruggerbeleeg - 03 décembre 2010 - 09:18 .

[SRC]

The RFL and FIFA ..... two peas in a pod.