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All Golds v North Wales Crusaders LCC3 FINAL

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He said: “Early on we made too many mistakes<br />

with ball in hand. Our defence was solid which<br />

kept us in the game. We came through that<br />

dodgy spell and dominated after that. We<br />

had a number of lads making their debut for<br />

us last week and they all went well, which will<br />

make selection for Sunday’s game hard but as<br />

a head coach they’re the kind of problems you<br />

want. There’s a couple of players that missed<br />

last week that could well be involved this<br />

Sunday,”<br />

Like the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong>, the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Wales</strong> <strong>Crusaders</strong><br />

began their 2017 season with a win, albeit in<br />

tougher circumstances away to York. The<br />

Wrexham based side looked like exiting the<br />

League 1 Cup only for a last gasp Danny Price<br />

try to take the game to golden point extra time.<br />

Jack Hansen’s field goal saw the <strong>Crusaders</strong><br />

home for a famous victory.<br />

Lee Greenwood says he’s preparing his players<br />

for a much sterner test than Hemel offered.<br />

“<strong>Crusaders</strong> have managed to pick up some<br />

really good players, they’ve got a strong squad<br />

and they’ll want to be up there challenging<br />

come the end of the season. We beat them<br />

in the Challenge Cup last year but they won<br />

both league games - all three were close<br />

games. It will be a tough challenge but we’ll be<br />

confident”, said Greenwood.<br />

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Re-live the drama from last year when these two squared off in the 3rd round.<br />

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