Quote ="Donnyman"Well they aren't developing French players as they dropped the academy, they can't find any talent in the French domestic game, and few English are on the market as English clubs need bigger rosters for their reserve team commitments.
So they have pretty much descended to TWP's policy of a shock signing of a past it player who will fill column inches, hiding these two clubs real failures to develop players. People should note these are supposed to be the "flagship" clubs for French and American expansion.
I can't see the expansion but Lockwood in his league Weekly rag this week still sees
"expansion"........'"
Iain Watson has been up in arms this last few weeks as Catalan have been trying to tap-up a couple of Salford's forwards a few weeks before the start of the season. They are morally bankrupt as an organisation, so signing Folau will be no skin off their noses.