Forum,

French league continues to struggle, lyon don`t want play in the elite comp next yr, financial difficulties and player depth are major problems but they will see out the yr, they recently went to lezignan and lost 100-0. They only had 12 players and two of them were playing injured. They must be congratulated for playing .

That can`t be said about St gaudens, they forfaited against lyon and the reason was that(apparently) they couldn`t find a bus to transport the players. Of course this was all lies and there has been wide spread condemnation of st gaudens and their behaviour from their own players and supportes. The players wanted to drive themselves there to play but not one official turned up to help them.

St gaudens players haven`t been paid since october either, and the real reason for this behaviour is that the st gaudens officials are still filthy with the federation for some big fines and suspensions after they verbally and physically abused a referee.

Toulouse want to sign borlin a front rower from st gaudens who will be handy for them and has apparently agreed but the president of st g is blocking this only out of spite with his war with zalduendo.

If st gaudens go under with lyon this will leave the french "elite" comp with 8 teams.

A sorry state of affaires here and with the dragons struggling also there`s not much good news.

So I just read it the wrong way

No comment about the rest of the post though , it's easy to be ' supportive and interested ' when you are looking down , not quite the same when you are the ones directly affected though

I'm sure if the owners of our bigger clubs Saints and Leeds stated they want to play in the NRL because SL was not as good you would be suitably impressed

Has the massive success of Le Cats ( and potential massive success of TO ) had a negetive effect on the French Domestic league? Are things as bad as it looks in the Elite League? There must be positives going on?

How bad is it exactly? any links?

Haven't Lyon asked to leave the Elite league next season? Rumours of other clubs in financial difficulties.

as far as i know if they do another team will take their place.
toulouse also want to enter a team.