Just been watching the opening 20 mins of carcassone vs albi the elite French championship final , decent prop is clement Boyer , think he’ll go well .

Thought I recognised the name, just googled him and he played 2 matches for us back in 2015.

Worryingly I can’t see the likes of jouffret n Keyes sticking round if we don’t pull our finger out , with lots of contracts ending this season might just end up with Brandon Douglas’ thumb .

He will be match fit as well as the final wasn’t that long ago , high work rate and carries strong , his first stint is about 30 mins .

I'm pretty certain Wiki has this wrong, he played more than 2 games for us the season that he were with us. I remember him as a regular in the line up and probably around the time we last had a pack that was really feared with Tangata, Cahalane, Richard Moore, and Dane Manning.

Edit: Decided to have a look on google and first 2 games I picked out he played in........then can't find him in others

Old age memory playing tricks and maybe he did but ive checked games a couple either side and hes not in the line up.

At least the BoD / club are trying to respond to our current League position but when finances are already tight if your having to spend more can only be adding extra pressure.

Be interesting to know how the books are balancing playing personnel wise when you weigh up the difference from between all the outgoing / incomings from this years original starting squad.

We started on a bigger budget even with a smaller squad and if they are having to spend more to fend off the threat of relegation it would be more like a avoiding doom and bust instead of the usual boom and bust scenario.

Jouffret wants to return home after this season.

I wonder if that’s why Maxime Rostang has been training with us , as his replacement

If that's true would be really disappointed- think he's got better and better since he joined us and has probably been our most consistent player over last couple of seasons, one of the few who has the ability and pace to change a game.

May be that’s why we are getting so many French players signing up to make LJ feel at home. He has been playing in Britain for about 8 years now I think.

Are there any Fev casualties we should be sniffing around?

Article copied and translated from French magazine treize mondial

Clément Boyer, pillar of Carcassonne XIII, big player in the Cup-Championship double this season, is targeted by Halifax.

After Louis Jouffret, Kevin Larroyer, Mathieu Pons and François Dorce-Hantz, the Panthers would have moved closer to Clément Boyer. The club and the player know each other well since the French pillar spent an offseason there in 2015.
French international and present during the tour to Kenya at the end of 2023, the pillar of the Canaries had another huge season. Voted best prop in the championship by Treize Mondial, the 29-year-old would inevitably help a Halifax club in danger this season in the Championship.
His impact, his work within the forward pack and his experience (more than 150 matches with Toulouse Olympique in the Championship) would help any club.

Let’s hope for t is true we are signing him And sooner rather than later.

Confirmed Boyer on board.

Why don't Toulouse and Catalans play in their own Elite 1 Championship instead of a foreign league?

I have a feeling it’s all gonna kick off …

If it is Keyes he had a lot of offers and Bradford have a lot of money to splash about. There were rumblings after the Widdop signing that he would be looking for a way out as well so its hard to blame him and lets be honest for the moent he might be on has he been worth it the last couple of seasons?

Lannon reported as Widnes bound for next year by the one and only game caller , he ll probably announce the other two on Sunday according to his tweet , he ll be loving this and these announcements aren’t gonna be any good for team spirit , whoever is leaking information to him doesn’t have the clubs best interests at heart .

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On the other hand it will help Finn know who really wants to be here.

Trouble is for a squad who’s form and numbers aren’t at the right end of the table what does he do with those looking to move on when it’s equally hard either to leave anyone out or pick someone’s who’s not fully committed.

Barrow will give us another look at the commitments side of things as they can play a bit and always in with energy, purpose and intent.

Faxcar - Barrow will certainly a tough test and we need to start picking up points soon , won’t get anything from Wakefield.

The most frustrating thing is I only really find out through here as I don’t subscribe to other media platforms. Listen up 94, what’s kicking off?

Two of our best players going to play in the toilet bowl ground next season.

I really hope these cost cutting exercises are so we can secure the shay . If not then if we survive relegation next year is gonna be a long n tough one .

I think Lannon hasn’t preformed this season. He isn’t running in as hard and isn’t make the metres after contact that he was doing last year. No point in keeping players who want out and clearly are not giving their all to the club

Faxlore- Lannon has probably dropped off due to transitioning from full to part time.

Seen this happen time and time again with ex SL props, they come in from the full time environment and are stand out performers, really make a difference, but after a season or so of part time rugby they no longer stand out, and while some still do a good job, they don't have the impact they had initially.