If you must discuss Union, do it here

: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:17 pm

AdmiralHanson wrote:

If you opened the kick & clap pages of a newspaper last weekend, you couldn't failed to have noticed all the hype about USAP, the Perpignan union outfit's short-term signing of Dan Carter (who is supposed to be the best Union player going at the moment).

Arguably best player in the world, and it gets plenty of newspaper coverage. Not exactly surprising. Coverage is comparable to coverage Andrew Johns received.

USAP haven't won a French championship for over 50 years and clearly, something that wasn't picked up on in the press, they must feel threatend by the Les Catalan Dragons ?

When was the last title Warrington have won ? By your logic the Johns coverage occurred because Warrington felt threatened by Sale.

Les Cats are playing in front of a similar number of fans each week than watch USAP and the visiting Northerns fill the bars and restaurants three times more each year than anyone over for the Heiniken Cup ....

Several RL clubs clubs in the area have seen a drop in crowds over the last three years (noticeably Toulouse), that would indicate something about les Catalans fanbase. When was the last time les Catalans got a 14k plus crowd?

As for the northerners, to be frank they are hardly noticed given not many actually travel over compared to the ERC for Perpignan and Toulouse also most RL fans appear to be located outside the town. Munster and Leiecster almost always sell their allocation of tickets.
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