{"id":811552,"date":"2026-10-23T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811552\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:04:08","slug":"north-wales-crusaders-set-for-rfl-talks-over-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811552\/","title":{"rendered":"North Wales Crusaders set for RFL talks over future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; only professional rugby league side had been on the brink of collapse earlier this year when the owners announced they would no longer provide funding, only months after they had won the League One title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A group of supporters and volunteers rallied and a new company, NW Rugby League 26 Ltd, was formed and granted an interim licence by the RFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club was deducted 12 points as punishment for its financial failings, and completed the 2026 season with a hastily reassembled squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crusaders finished bottom of the Championship, losing 21 of their 24 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their 134-0 defeat by London Broncos in June was the biggest loss of any side in the top two divisions in the 131-year history of rugby league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; only professional rugby league side had been on the brink of collapse earlier this year when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811552","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=811552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}