Re: Toulouse : Thu Jun 01, 2017 11:29 am  

Pity, Toulouse is a great place and worth a visit.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:17 pm  

HXSparky wrote:

Re-reading my somewhat angry post you are quite correct with your response, and I apologise unreservedly to both TO and Catalans, who are fine RL clubs doing their best to succeed in their respective leagues. I'm truly sorry if I've offended any of their true supporters in any way.

TO deserved their win against Fax last weekend, end of.

My main regret is getting wound up by another poster here.

In time you will learn to ignore Jean. He used to post as an Aussie called Barry Mckenzie and no doubt in the future he will make up a Canadian persona

Regards

King James

Re: Toulouse : Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:55 pm  

I'd personally like to see Catalans in the middle 8's. Nothing against them but as all there home games are televised it'd mean there would be more coverage of the middle 8's. Summer Bash showed last weekend that Championship rugby is very entertaining, wish it was regularly televised.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:56 pm  

I would not like to see Catalans in the Middle 8s. We need two (2) French clubs in Super League, not one (1). Toulouse and Catalans in Super League will create a local derby that will light up southwestern France with rugby league fever. Plus it will create a bigger corps of professional players to choose from for the French national team.

We need Avignon in the Championship as well ASAP and if that is successful then Paris will follow soon after.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Jun 01, 2017 11:02 pm  

Be interesting if the mpg was between TO and Catalan. Wonder what crowd that would bring?!

Re: Toulouse : Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:03 am  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

I would not like to see Catalans in the Middle 8s. We need two (2) French clubs in Super League, not one (1). Toulouse and Catalans in Super League will create a local derby that will light up southwestern France with rugby league fever. Plus it will create a bigger corps of professional players to choose from for the French national team.

We need Avignon in the Championship as well ASAP and if that is successful then Paris will follow soon after.

Didn't expect that you'd want them in the Middle 8's to be honest.

I'm all for expansion, but if Super League ended up with to many teams from abroad I'd soon become disenchanted with it; unless they increased the amount of teams.

Re: Toulouse : Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:20 am  

RAB-2411 wrote:

Didn't expect that you'd want them in the Middle 8's to be honest.

I'm all for expansion, but if Super League ended up with to many teams from abroad I'd soon become disenchanted with it; unless they increased the amount of teams.

Why so? As long as they bring competition, fans, money and is good for the sport.

You may have heard of the Champions League and the RU version both which have made massive increases in sponsors. People want too see pan-european competion not Wigan v Toulouse not Wigan v small town next to Wigan.

Re: Toulouse : Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:34 am  

[quote="tenerifeRhino"]Why so? As long as they bring competition, fans, money and is good for the sport.

You may have heard of the Champions League and the RU version both which have made massive increases in sponsors. People want too see pan-european competion not Wigan v Toulouse not Wigan v small town next to Wigan.[/quote

Obviously I've heard of those competitions; but did those competitions replace the domestic league of a country or were they an additional competition???

We're doing our bit for expanding the game and improving international competition by welcoming French/Welsh/Canadian clubs into the fold; but if we ended up with plenty of the clubs being foreign based and neglecting the heartland areas we could start to suffer.

Plus, clearly RL is struggling financially overall. Could clubs survive with having say 4 home games per season with no (or very little) away support?

The ideal situation would be for enough decent French teams to emerge for them to have there own highly competitive league, and start a CL style comp. Can't see it happening, and no idea where it'd fit into the calendar but it's an interesting concept.

Re: Toulouse : Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:51 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

I would not like to see Catalans in the Middle 8s. We need two (2) French clubs in Super League, not one (1). Toulouse and Catalans in Super League will create a local derby that will light up southwestern France with rugby league fever. Plus it will create a bigger corps of professional players to choose from for the French national team.

We need Avignon in the Championship as well ASAP and if that is successful then Paris will follow soon after.

Catalan
Toulouse
Avignon
Paris

Blimey John, anymore French team's and they could have their own league. I wonder why they don't form their own league, in say.....France.

Bloody French team's coming over here, pinching all our English places

Re: Toulouse : Fri Jun 02, 2017 5:15 pm  

RU set up the pro 12 with Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Italian clubs.