I think we should just let more teams into our league structure. The argument against this in the past has been that hardly any of the clubs in France do not have the resources to hack it in Super League.
This has been a good reason on the assumption we are just making them jump though some hoops on the way to Super League. However looking at the applications of Ottawa and Belgrade neither of these club have "getting to Super League" as their top priority. Instead they have said that the production of talent, Canadian and Serbian respectively, is the main goal. Even the early talk coming from Valencia Hurricanes is that they want to have a Spanish club with Spanish players even if this means they will be a League 1 club for a long time.
Getting back to the OP the way the RFL can help these clubs is for the RFL to pay for all travel between European club centrally regardless if it is a coach over the Pennines or a plane over the channel. This has always been a big expense for any French club that wants to play in the UK, with the likes of Toulouse just swallowing the cost until they can get up into Super League and get more money.
So why don't we get the Carcassonne, Limoux, Lézignan, etc. into League 1 and help them pay for them and their visitors travel. That sounds simple enough to me.
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