Quote RDM="RDM"Crusaders clearly needed to do something as the basic concept of their original franchise application was to take the top level of the sport into a completely new area. Their success in doing so is easily measured by the fact they've moved to Wrexham.
The Wrexham move is more likely to work out for them as they're now much closer to the heartland of RL support.'"
They are now based in Wrexham because thats where the new owner owns a stadium. The fact it is closer to the heartlands is mere coincidence
Quote RDMBut if that doesn't prove successful are we going to see them move to another area to try again somewhere else? '"
i would expect so yes. I would be very surprised if we all gave up and went home and the game ended/
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You can argue that this is one of the "advantages" of the franchise system much as it's used in the USA where teams in the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL can simply move to another city at the whim of the owners, but that isn't what the RFL intended by creating the franchises for SL.'"
yet there was deliberately room within the rules for this to happen.
Quote RDMIf Crusaders couldn't make a SL team work in Bridgend, they should have handed back their franchise and made do with the lower leagues.'"
Psssst, they kind of did. The Crusaders are owned by someone else, someone new
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On a separate point, Wakey certainly haven't had "millions" from WMDC and indeed have had less money from the RFL during our time in SL than other clubs have had. We had no TV money in our first year and Huddersfield & Hull also got substantial handouts following the failure of their respective mergers with Sheffield & Gateshead.'"
You are asking for a new stadium to be built for you. Which you wont own, You also need to look back at what actually happened with Hudds and Hull