2013 North Wales Crusaders season

2013 North Wales Crusaders season
2013 North Wales Crusaders season
2013 Championship 1 Rank
Challenge Cup
National League Cup	Round 2
2013 record	Wins: 3; Losses: 0
Team information
CEO	Jamie Thomas
Head coach	Clive Griffiths
Captain	;
Stadium	Racecourse Ground
Avg. attendance	707
High attendance	721
Top scorers
Tries	Massam - 4
Goals	Johnson - 16
Points	Johnson - 36

This article details the North Wales Crusaders Rugby League Football Club's 2013 season. This is the club's second season after reforming following the former Super League club Crusaders Rugby League folding. The club will take part in Championship 1 for their second season.^[1] The club will be also taking part again in the Challenge Cup, and the National League Cup (known as the Northern Rail Cup for sponsorship reasons) for the first time in their short history.^[2]

Pre-Season[]

LEGEND
	Win
	Draw
	Loss

Date	Competition	Vrs	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Att	Report
29/12/2012	Ian Watson Testimonial	Swinton Lions	Away	Leigh Sports Village	L	34-14	Gorski, Massam, Adamson	(1/3)	645	[1]
13/01/2013	Friendly	York City Knights	Away	Huntington Stadium	W	16-38	, , , Massam, , Durbin, Reid	(5/7)	312	[2]
02/02/2013	Friendly	Thatto Heath Crusaders	Away	Crusaders Park	W	10-50	, , , Reardon, Roets, Massam, (2), Kirby	(5/6), (2/3)	200	[3]
17/02/2013	Friendly	Coventry Bears	Home	Racecourse Ground	W	64-22	Roets, Massam (2), Durbin, , , (2), , ,	(10/11)	429	[4]

2013 Table[]

2013 Championship 1 v t
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Bns	Pts
1	North Wales Crusaders (P)	16	14	0	2	568	212	+356	1	43
2	Oldham	16	12	1	3	508	289	+219	3	41
3	Rochdale Hornets	16	10	0	6	538	375	+163	2	32
4	London Skolars	16	10	0	6	489	468	+21	3	32
5	Hemel Stags	16	8	0	8	381	365	+16	4	28
6	Oxford RLFC	16	5	2	9	326	436	-110	4	23
7	Gateshead Thunder	16	4	1	11	356	542	-186	6	20
8	South Wales Scorpions	16	5	0	11	368	504	-136	4	19
9	Gloucestershire All Golds	16	2	1	13	286	629	-343	4	12

	Teams qualifying for promotion
	Teams qualifying for play-offs

This table is correct as of 1 September 2013. Source: rugbyleaguechampionships.co.uk and BBC Sport.

Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference.

Competition points: For win = 3; For draw = 2; For loss by 12 points or fewer = 1^[3].
(P) - Promoted, (Pl) - Qualified for Playoffs

2013 Championship 1 Fixtures and Results[]

LEGEND
	Win
	Draw
	Loss

Date	Competition	Rnd	Vrs	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Att	TV
01/04/2013	Championship 1	1	South Wales Scorpions	A	The Gnoll	W	34-12		Premier Sports
14/04/2013	Championship 1	2	London Skolars	H	Racecourse Ground	W	44-6	741
28/04/2013	Championship 1	3	Gateshead Thunder	H	Racecourse Ground	W	52-8	752
05/05/2013	Championship 1	4	Rochdale Hornets	A	Spotland	W	35-18
12/05/2013	Championship 1	5	Oxford Rugby League	A	Iffley Road	W	12-4
02/06/2013	Championship 1	6	Gloucestershire All Golds	H	Racecourse Ground	W	66-4	851
09/06/2013	Championship 1	7	Oldham R.L.F.C.	H	Racecourse Ground	W	22-20	962
16/06/2013	Championship 1	8	Hemel Stags	A	Pennine Way	L	10-18
23/06/2013	Championship 1	9	Gloucestershire All Golds	A	Gloucestershire University	W	58-16
30/06/2013	Championship 1	10	Rochdale Hornets	H	Racecourse Ground	W	48-0	1084
28/07/2013	Championship 1	11	Oldham R.L.F.C.	A	Whitebank Stadium	L	10-28
04/08/2013	Championship 1	12	Gateshead Thunder	A	Filtrona Park, South Shields	W	24-20
11/08/2013	Championship 1	13	Hemel Stags	H	Racecourse Ground	W	44-12	813
18/08/2013	Championship 1	14	Oxford Rugby League	H	Racecourse Ground	W	54-10	805
23/08/2013	Championship 1	15	London Skolars	A	New River Stadium	W	20-14		Premier Sports
1/09/2013	Championship 1	16	South Wales Scorpions	H	Racecourse Ground	W	35-22	1562

2013 Northern Rail Cup Fixtures and Results[]

LEGEND
	Win
	Draw
	Loss

Date	Competition	Rnd	Vrs	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Att	Report
03/3/13	Championship Cup	Round 1	Oldham R.L.F.C.	H	Racecourse Ground	W	48-12	2, Durbin, Massam, Roets, Middlehurst, , Reardon	(8/8)	721	[5]
10/3/13	Championship Cup	Round 1	Gateshead Thunder	A	Thunderdome	W	4-30	Reardon 2, , Massam, , Middlehurst	(3/6)	228	[6]
17/3/13	Championship Cup	Round 1	Rochdale Hornets	H	Racecourse Ground	W	30-16	, McConnell, Massam 2,	(5/5)	693	[7]
21/3/13	Championship Cup	Round 1	Hemel Stags	A	Pennine Way	W	36-24
19/5/13	Championship Cup	Round 2	Swinton Lions	A	Leigh Sports Village	L	18-26

2013 Tetleys Challenge Cup Fixtures and Results[]

LEGEND
	Win
	Draw
	Loss

Date	Competition	Rnd	Vrs	H/A	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Att	TV	Report
	Challenge Cup	Round 3	West Hull

Stats[]

For all stats,

Appearances[]

Rank	Name	Appearances
1	Tommy Johnson	3
=	Stuart Reardon	3
=	Christiaan Roets	3
=	Leon Brennan	3
=	Rob Massam	3
=	Andy Moulsdale	3
=	Jamie Durbin	3
=	Jonny Walker	3
=	Gary Middlehurst	3
=	Jono Smith	3
=	Phil Braddish	3
=	Ryan MacDonald	3
13	Lee Hudson	2
=	Simon Stephens	2
=	Andy Gorski	2
=	Dave McConnell	2
17	Toby Adamson	1
=	Steve McDermott	1
=	Owain Brown	1
=	Matt Reid	1
=	Owain Griffiths	1
=	Lewys Weaver	1
=	Stephen Bannister	1

Points[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Points
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Tries[]

Rank	Name	Tries
1	Massam	4
2	Reardon	3
3	Brennan	2
=	Middlehurst	2
=	Smith	2
6	Durbin	1
=	Roets	1
=	Moulsdale	1
=	Johnson	1
=	McConnell	1
=	Stephens	1

Goals[]

Rank	Name	Goals	Percentage
1	Johnson	16	84%
2
3
4
5

2013 Squad[]

It was announced in October 2012 that Crusaders would be again holding open trials for the 2013 squad after very successful trials for the 2012 season.

Playing squad[]

2013 North Wales Crusaders Squad
First team squad								Coaching staff
1 – FB 2 – WG, FB 3 Christiaan Roets – CE, SR 4 – CE 5 Rob Massam – WG 6 (c) – SO 7 Jamie Durbin – SH 8 – PR, SR 9 – HK 10 – PR 11 Andy Gorski – SR 12 Gary Middlehurst – SR, LF 13 – LF, SR		14 Dave McConnell – HK 15 Toby Adamson – CE, SR 16 Ryan MacDonald – PR 17 Stuart Reardon – FB, WG, CE 18 North Wales Crusaders Supporters 19 – PR 20 – HB 21 – PR 22 – WG, CE 23 – SR 24 Steve McDermott – HK, PR 25 Owain Griffiths – HK, LF 26 – SO		27 Jamie Clark – SR 28 – WG 29 Stephen Bannister – SR, LF 30 – PR				Head coach Clive Griffiths Assistant coach John Fieldhouse Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice captain(s) Updated: 21 February 2013 Source(s): 2013 Squad Numbers

2013 transfers[]

Gains[]

Player	Previous Club	Date Signed
Gary Middlehurst	Rochdale Hornets	October 2012
	Rochdale Hornets	October 2012
Stuart Reardon	AS Carcassonne	October 2012 ^[4]
Dave McConnell	Swinton Lions	October 2012
Andy Gorski	Swinton Lions	October 2012
	Rochdale Hornets	October 2012 ^[5]
Ryan MacDonald	Workington Town	October 2012 ^[6]
Steve McDermott	Rochdale Hornets	November 2012^[7]

Loanees[]

Player	Parent Club	Date

Losses[]

Player	New Club	Date
		October 2012
Iwan Brown

Dave Orwell	Released
Alex Trumper	Released

References[]

^ "Championship One to feature nine clubs in 2013". therfl.co.uk. 2012-09-21. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
^ "Championship One to operate with nine clubs in 2013". code13rugbyleague.com. 2012-09-21. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
^ "Points System". Rugby League Championships. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
^ "2013 Season". March 16, 2017.
^ "2012 Season". March 16, 2017.
^ "North Wales Crusaders capture experienced Workington Prop". mission2013.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
^ "Matchday Hospitality". March 16, 2017.

[1] "Championship One to feature nine clubs in 2013". therfl.co.uk. 2012-09-21. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2012-10-03.

[2] "Championship One to operate with nine clubs in 2013". code13rugbyleague.com. 2012-09-21. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2021-06-19.

[3] "Points System". Rugby League Championships. Retrieved 27 January 2013.

[4] "2013 Season". March 16, 2017.

[5] "2012 Season". March 16, 2017.

[6] "North Wales Crusaders capture experienced Workington Prop". mission2013.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-10-30.

[7] "Matchday Hospitality". March 16, 2017.

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