Re: Toulouse : Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:58 pm  

There's a few Catalan threads on here you seem to be avoiding Jean.

Re: Toulouse : Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:44 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

I wanted to explain why Toulouse did not run up 70-80 points against Rochdale, apart from the imperfect goal kicking of conversions. San Junien has explained that Toulouse should have scored more against poor opposition.

The Championship is now starting to look like a four team competition. The only question that is important is whether Toulouse can compete well with any of the weaker Super League clubs -- such as witless Widnes and helpless Huddersfield -- in the middle 8s.

Toulouse won a game by two points against a Fax team that has struggled to get out of second gear all season, and that was with one of the clearest "no try" decisions (if we had a video ref) that you could imagine. Toulouse are a decent Championship team, but no more.

Fax are nowhere near having a team to compete well in the middle 8's, and neither are Toulouse. HKR are a notch above the rest of the Championship teams (albeit Fax gave them a scare last time out), but their only realistic chance is a one-off in the MPG when they'll need every piece of luck going for them to beat the worst of the worst in SL.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:01 am  

HXSparky wrote:

Toulouse won a game by two points against a Fax team that has struggled to get out of second gear all season, and that was with one of the clearest "no try" decisions (if we had a video ref) that you could imagine. Toulouse are a decent Championship team, but no more.

Fax are nowhere near having a team to compete well in the middle 8's, and neither are Toulouse. HKR are a notch above the rest of the Championship teams (albeit Fax gave them a scare last time out), but their only realistic chance is a one-off in the MPG when they'll need every piece of luck going for them to beat the worst of the worst in SL.

You are probably right but who are the four teams better than TO13 on current form ?

From what i've seen Fev looked fairly useful as did Swinton but the rest were ordinary and Batley , Dewsbury and Rochdale looked poor.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:50 am  

Toulouse may well finish 2nd in the Championship, but only HKR look capable of giving the SL sides a game in the middle 8's. As a competition, other than HKR and probably Dewsbury (I hope I don't have to change that after this weekend!) it's been pretty competitive.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:04 pm  

HXSparky wrote:

Toulouse may well finish 2nd in the Championship, but only HKR look capable of giving the SL sides a game in the middle 8's. As a competition, other than HKR and probably Dewsbury (I hope I don't have to change that after this weekend!) it's been pretty competitive.

It certainly wasn't very 'competitive' at Spotland last weekend.

TO are young and naiive, getting into the top four would be a minor miracle imo.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:55 pm  

HXSparky wrote:

Toulouse may well finish 2nd in the Championship, but only HKR look capable of giving the SL sides a game in the middle 8's. As a competition, other than HKR and probably Dewsbury (I hope I don't have to change that after this weekend!) it's been pretty competitive.

whats to stop toulouse strengthening before the middle 8s?

Re: Toulouse : Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:26 pm  

Toulouse are leading Oldham 6-0 after 20 minutes, with a try from Stanislaus Robin, the Polish-French scrum half.

Toulouse are playing this week without stars Kuni Minga and Kane Bentley.

Re: Toulouse : Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:38 pm  

Toulouse leading 22-0 after further tries from Stanislaus Robin, Gregory White and Jonathan Ford. Mark Kheirallah has kicked three goals. 22-0 and not yet half time.

Re: Toulouse : Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:53 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

Toulouse leading 22-0 after further tries from Stanislaus Robin, Gregory White and Jonathan Ford. Mark Kheirallah has kicked three goals. 22-0 and not yet half time.

What's the weather like ?

Re: Toulouse : Sat Apr 08, 2017 5:01 pm  

A very hot 28°