You took your time didn't you ?

But they survived spending more than the NL cap, they played a Season of SL not spending the SL cap. Its simply speculation on your part as to whether the 'straw that broke the camels back' Was them spending over £300k on wages in the NLs rather than spending over £1m on wages in SL simply because of an arbitrary amount called 'the cap'.

In real terms they spent more in SL than they did in NL1, it is only your speculation (and pretty counter-intuitive speculation if we are honest) that says it cost Crusaders more to operate over a relatively small cap than it did under a massively larger cap.

But the overspend in the NL s made them look better than they were , it ' convinced ' the Emporers followers [ including the RFL it would seem ] into believing they were ready for SL , they weren't , as I and others who witnessed our matches at Brewery field tried to tell people , it just wasn't happening as it was being suggested at the time , I Sincerely hope they don't do it all again with somebody else

No, it isn't, it is a fact that Crusaders had accumulated CCJs before joining SL. This came out when the club went bust, if anyone had bothered to do any digging, it was on record at the time. If you are suggesting that a club accumulating CCJs can continue to survive indefinitely then I'd say that history shows otherwise.

It also a fact that despite the higher costs of operating in SL, it is a known that the revenues were also much higher so merely comparing salary caps is misleading. The difference in caps is 700k or so, remind me how much the Sky subsidy alone is? Not to mention the additional away fans.

Crusaders didn't even sign any particularly big name players when they joined SL. Their SL squad was pretty much the same team that "won" promotion plus a handful of Queensland league players. Their wage bill probably wasn't that much more in SL than it had been in NL1, at least for the first season.

Your definition of "counter-intuitive" seems to mean "focus solely on costs and ignore revenue", a rather odd idea and unlikely to trouble the world of finance.

No it allowed them to put out a better side in the NLs, but nobody thought that side would be the side they would put out in SL and indeed it wasnt

It wasn't all that different. It's not like they went out and signed Reuben Wiki and Stacey Jones as Catalans did. They hired a few more Queensland league players and got rid of the Welsh players but there were no big name signings. The Aussie core of the team was the same lads that had been playing in NL2.

It ' papered over the cracks ' in the business , it was off field that I and others were telling people , they struggled to cope when we visited , and as I have pointed out countless times , Mr Samuel was ' Hated ' by the local populace , hardly a recipe for success

Correct , it makes you wonder if Mr Samuels was just getting his money back , or if he had been led to believe it was possible to make money out of running a SL club ?

One can but speculate but it is interesting how many times, he has been "forced" to pull out of funding a sports club (four - Pontypridd FC [IIRC], Bridgend RFC, Celtic Warriors, Celtic Crusaders) that club disappeared or fell down the league and yet he still had enough cash to contemplate doing exactly the same again.

Id say clearly so, considering they spent MORE money after accumulating those CCJs than prior to it.

But now you are speculating an entire profit and loss account. The cap difference isnt £700k, it is £1.3m It is massively different. And that is the basis of the problem. You dont know that if Crusaders P+L had been better in the NL's it would have made their P+L viable in SL. That was the issue, the breaking of the cap is irrelevant. If the club wasnt viable in SL, then even if it had made profit in the NLs, it wasnt viable in SL.

Thats just incorrect, most of Crusaders squad was signed for SL, it was no where near 'pretty much the same' nor did they only add 'a handful of queensland league players'. A handful of queensland league players is what they had in the NL's. Their signings in 2009 included O'hara, Withers, Bryant, Peek, Chalk, Smith, Lupton, Chan, Tyrer. Mark Bryant had won the Grand Final the previous year, Withers, O'hara, Peek and chalk were all NRL first graders at the time, Lupton had played 25 SL games for Cas the year before, and Smith and Tyrer (at the time) were banging on the door for St Helens.