www.crusadersrfl.com/article.php?id=3443 Announced by club on website today

www.crusadersrfl.com/article.php?id=3443 Announced by club on website today

Well here's hoping the club can be run a little better so they don't have to go through all this again next year

Same time next year then? What an utter joke.

No worse than Wigan being let into Super League after going bust and being bought for a fiver just to enable Whelan to get planning permission for his new football stadium. Or Wigan being allowed to stay in SL after openly cheating their way out of relegation.

You good wishes are appreciated. Let the haters hate.

Not a hater i dont think, just maybe hes getting a bit fed up. I really hope they can grow and they had a good season last year. I just dont want it to be another wasted experiment by the RFL. If they are to compete in SL they have to be sustainable and be reliant on the RFL, lets hope they can do this from now on.

I agree, they shouldn't let clubs who have had financial difficulty into Super league should they?

Thats why half of the clubs in SL shouldn't be in there and we should as in our current position, are one of the most professional, organised run clubs in England.

Crusaders might say that this time next season, bar the England bit.

And what happens when Steve O'Connor stops financing Widnes?

And what proof have you that this will happen? he's been here 3 years and put more into this club then what some SL chairmans have put into their own club. He's here, he is ambitious and he wants to stay. So i will look at it from this prospective and until the situation changes, which will not be any time soon i am fully confident we will do very well once back in SL.



Crusaders may become a sustainable SL club only time will tell and i hope they do but until they stop relying on the RFL bailing them out, its never going to work.

What proof do you have he will stay? At some point he will leave the club. Be it 5 years or 20 years. But at some point his financial backing will not be available to Widnes. Obviously the hope is that the club will be self-sustaining by that point. But what if he leaves in 5 years time? Could Widnes, with the advantage their heritage and history brings them, be totally self-sustaining with Super League costs in 5 years time? A lot can happen in 5 years.



In the end you have only the same assurances that Leighton Samuel gave re Crusaders. Why should the RFL believe Steve O'Connor and not the new Crusaders owners?