Sunday's Coming - Crusaders

It's been month of mixed emotions over at Wrexham's Nvrsty f n Vwls. Having spent a week on the phone to the Samaritans after the shock defeat at Hemel, how happy Big Spending North Wales Crusaders™ were to ram 58 points through the competition whipping boys Gloucestershire All Golds.

It's raining cash...

Leading just 18-12 at the break, Crusaders scored 30 points in a runaway half-hour spell to take the Glos. off the All Golds' afternoon (see what we did there?). Former Warrington Wizard Jono Smith hiting the Jackpot, scoring a hat-trick. Off the bench.

However, the most existential quote of the week came from Crusaders' South African centre Christiaan Roets on coming back from  six weeks out with a ruptured pectoral muscle: "My core is fragile…" - we know how you feel, man - we are all but insignificant specks of cosmic dust in an ever expanding universe…

Talking of life in a vacuum, Sunday is Crusaders' last game before the Northern Rail Cup Final Bowl Plate curtain-raiser thing against Skolars in sunny Halifax two weeks hence. Looking at it coldly, Sunday would be a really bad time to pick up an injury. What with a final coming up and everything…

Needless to say, Clive Griffiths isn't happy about the enforced break. Speaking in the League Express this week he said: "It's not good."

All that remains is to say get over to Wrexham if you can on Sunday. This is the game of the day in KPCh1 and you wouldn't want to miss it if we won. Which we need to really after last Sunday's blip.

So we'll see you there. Until then, here's a Welsh classic for all you fans of profligate expenditure...