photo by Ian Lovell

It was a night where everything went to plan for Celtic Crusaders. A club record crowd of 6,152, that was witnessed by many top RFL officials, couldn’t have done their Super League application any harm, while their performance on the pitch was once again hard-working as they opened up in the second half to beat Featherstone Rovers 28-18.

This crowd figure, among the highest in National League One this year, would have beaten all but two regular season crowds in the competition in 2007. There were also three times as many people there than at the Neath v Pontypridd top of the table rugby

union Premiership game just down the road that was staged at the same time.

It was Crusaders’ fourth win in a row against their Yorkshire rivals (five if you count the Crusaders Colts win in Featherstone last month) as the two clubs opened Millennium Magic weekend in style.

Main match aside, it was a night for development in Wales with 22 schools sides from a 50-mile radius competing in a tag rugby league tournament before the Crusaders Featherstone match-up.

And don’t be surprised to see a “Crusade for Super League T-shirt” at a ground near you soon. The thousands of T-shirts that were printed and given away were snapped up by Crusaders, Featherstone and ...

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