{"id":178830,"date":"2025-10-04T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:21:08","slug":"carl-forster-leaves-north-wales-crusaders-for-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178830\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Forster leaves North Wales Crusaders for Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crusaders owner Arun Watkins said Forster&#8217;s move to an as yet unnamed Super League club is a sign of the progress the club have made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A little less than 10 months ago, the club was predicted to finish third from bottom across the entire RFL elite system and was possibly moments away from going out of business,&#8221; Watkins said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fast forward to now, we are league champions, building solid crowds, our fanbase has skyrocketed and our head coach has been asked to step up to a team who last year were two divisions above us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is possibly one of the highest compliments to get. It is with a heavy heart that we must congratulate Carl and wish him all the best for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crusaders owner Arun Watkins said Forster&#8217;s move to an as yet unnamed Super League club is a sign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-178830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}