Post subject: Why was Bridgend chosen as Celtics home????
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:26 am
Barry_McKenzie
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Cardiff. Population around 320,000
Swansea. Population around 230,000
Bridgend. Population around 130,000
So why was Bridgend chosen as the nucleus for the next superleague club??
Was it cost??
Did the club get a big grant off the local authority to set up there?
Had the people who set Celtic up done their homework and figured that a lot of the 130,000 people in the immediate area would turn up week in week out??
Was Bridgend formerly a big Rugby League hotspot??
Why on earth didnt they set Celtic Crusaders up in Cardiff or Swansea to start with??
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Because the Bridgend area had been left without a Union side when the WRU closed the Celtic Warriors & the small fact that when we were set up Leighton Samuel owned the ground.
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DAIHAPPY wrote:Because the Bridgend area had been left without a Union side when the WRU closed the Celtic Warriors & the small fact that when we were set up Leighton Samuel owned the ground.
That's half true. Bridgend still has its union side, Bridgend Ravens, it no longer has a Celtic / Magners league side.
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Hedgehog King wrote:That's half true. Bridgend still has its union side, Bridgend Ravens, it no longer has a Celtic / Magners league side.
My mistake - I should have said "Top Flight Union Side"
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Johnny Rotten wrote:Ever get the feeling you've been cheated
John_D wrote:Bobbie Goulding, can you hear me? Your British lads (Barrett, Richards, Vaealiki, Leuluai etc etc etc) took one hell of a beating.
eurob0y replying to Chris Dalton wrote: Well ok, so if we apply your logic, this means that you can never ever give your opinion of who you think is a good rugby league player, because you support widnes and therefore wouldnt know a good rugby league player if he smacked you in the face with a 3 eyed fish
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I was under the impression that Bridgend wasn't 'chosen' as Crusaders home – any more than, say, Wigan was 'chosen' as Wigan's home or Cronulla as Cronulla's home.
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Half price ale compared to up here, decent hotels, roast hogs, bar along the terrace you can rest your arm on & watch the game, and beautiful dirty ladies in cheap clubs for afters.
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It seemed like a good idea at the time ?
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Steve51 wrote:Half price ale compared to up here, decent hotels, roast hogs, bar along the terrace you can rest your arm on & watch the game, and beautiful dirty ladies in cheap clubs for afters.
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DAIHAPPY wrote:Because the Bridgend area had been left without a Union side when the WRU closed the Celtic Warriors & the small fact that when we were set up Leighton Samuel owned the ground.
Thank you.
Thats the main reason I think.
'You put your Wendell in, You take your Brownie out, You put your Bennett in, And you make it to the 8, You do the Oki Chokie, And you get knocked out, Thats what St George are about'
dally messenger wrote:parra had no ball and still looked like scoring all the time
The Chief wrote:What a knob Barrie MacKenzie is.
gutterfax wrote:I like Bazza. He chose the name of a cross dressing Austalian institutions other persona.....and is your typical Aussie w@nker living in London whilst he tries to get some culture by visiting Prague to get pi55ed on Cheap Star, getting a fondle from a dodgy hooker in amsterdam and eating a snail for a bet when in paris. All of these things will make him a cultural icon when his visa runs out and he is sent the way of his great grandparents....alas, not in chains this time.
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