You mean that same Crusaders team that because of their actions there will soon be a high budget movie out spreading the sport to a whole new audience?



I mean yes it will also give high profile to Union too. But does anybody really think that the movie would have gone ahead about Thomas purely on playing one sport? nah it was his move to league and the uproar of what happend down at Cas that prompted writers and movie makers to begin this project.



Sure the Cas issue will not look great, but many will always tell you there is no such thing as Bad News. Getting the game to a higher profile is what the RFL want, the fans want, the players want, and the game needs.



Crusaders did us all a good job with that one.

Ooh, yes... fantastic!



A movie portraying RL in a negative, homophobic light.



What a fantastic reason for bailing out the latest failed experiment to expand RL into that hotbed of rugby which is South Wales... whoops! Sorry... I meant that hotbed of rugby which is North Wales.

Putting the silly stick in the mud trolling aside.



You seriously don't believe that having a high profile movie out there about the game and that team, is not going to get people to come and take a look?



You seriously don't belive that other super league clubs commercial departments are not going to use that movie to seek out new commercial opportunities that will open up when a new audience has had the game brought to it's attention?



Sure you can keep on trolling, but I don't believe for one minute you do not realize the benefits that Crusaders will have given the game here for the long term.

I hate the trolling too, but do you seriously believe that that movie is going to get made?



And in the incredibly unlikely event that, after a few years, the film gets out of early "development" stage that it will be focussed on Crusaders RL rather than Wales RU?

I'd be suprised if RL got more than 15 minutes coverage (tops) in that film, although what that has anything to do with Wakefield I'm not so sure.

I assume we are spending up to our cap limit this season?

I would guess it's certain it will be made, considering contracts have already been given to key actors.



I agree with you on the Union comment, there is no doubt the vast majority would be about that considering the players career is almost all in that sport. However, the movie would not be complete without the RL side would it, especially considering it was straight after his "coming out" that he switched codes.



Like I said, once it happens the commercial team of the super league sides will take every opportunity to gain off that movie, even if it only gets 30 seconds. For that Crusaders could then be thanked for it.

Presumably Huddersfield aren't.

Paul Johnson looked excellent in their game v Cas I thought.



Just feel really sorry for them though, yes they were mismanaged but to have a team ripped to pieces (and it wasnt great to begin with) one week into a season is so demoralising for the fans. I for one wish them all the best.

Can't we give them Kirke as a gift?

Like I’ve said before – why is it that just because Wakefield were a founder club of the Northern Union it somehow gives them the divine right to exist at the top level of this sport - today?



Wakefield can not sustain a top flight club so why should they be bailed out?



Their ground is poor, their fan base is pathetic and have not and never will be contenders – let ‘um sink, they don’t deserve to be in Super League.

On the other hand, let's not get all santimonious about other clubs doing it ... In the days when we had the biggest cheque book in the league, we use to bring all sorts of players in to stave of the knock at the door at other clubs. Someone has already mentioned Keighley, but perhaps up there as our biggest signings (Crooks & Schofield) were basically flogged to save Hull FC. A fact oft forgot by our Cod encrusted friends ... Basically, had those two not been flogged when they did, there might not have been a black & white team to merge with Gateshead. The transfer was offered to them more or less as a fate acompli. For Schofield, it was a chance to move back to Leeds and to the club he'd always had a soft spot for and for Crooks it was the collapse of his little world.



Likewise, there was a forward purchased by Leeds, who was basically known as the 'xxxxxx phone bill' and had he not been bought by Leeds, the club in question I understand would have been cut off by BT.

TYPO corrected.



This is hardly the first time even in recent years that Wakefield haven't been on their uppers ....



And before they all come on here whinging and accuse me of being uncharitable, yes Leeds were once like that and we came very close to being a wholly owned subsiduary of Risdale & Co. Since those dark days, we haven't looked back. We have good backing, a great on and off-field set up and most importantly one of the best youth development systems in the game. The question is, what are these other clubs doing to copy what we've acheived ?



It makes me giggle about the constant bleating letters to the likes of League Express especially from Widnes fans ... Just how many times have they been broke in the last 20 years ? Yes, they might have got it right now, but there's time to prove it.

Millards has now been confirmed to Catalans. www.ffr13.fr/fil-info.php?a=2175 Quote Daryl Millard, holder in the national team of Fiji during the World Cup 2008, born on 20 February 1985 to Kogarah, New South Wales, father and mother Australian of fijian origin, leaves Wakefield for Dragoons Catalans, two clubs with the agreement on the conditions of the transfer. '"

Millards has now been confirmed to Catalans. www.ffr13.fr/fil-info.php?a=2175 Quote Daryl Millard, holder in the national team of Fiji during the World Cup 2008, born on 20 February 1985 to Kogarah, New South Wales, father and mother Australian of fijian origin, leaves Wakefield for Dragoons Catalans, two clubs with the agreement on the conditions of the transfer. '"