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| Looks like a 5 figure crowd easily for Cats v Hull KR in Toulouse.
Perhaps more significantly there is a banner in the ground reading 'Super League 2015 here we come! - Toulouse Olympique'
-and apparently Toulouse are hearing about whether their SL application is accepted this month.
Interesting times.
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| Quote ="JonB95"Looks like a 5 figure crowd easily for Cats v Hull KR in Toulouse.
Perhaps more significantly there is a banner in the ground reading 'Super League 2015 here we come! - Toulouse Olympique'
-and apparently Toulouse are hearing about whether their SL application is accepted this month.
Interesting times.'"
That would be very interesting if they're accepted and the league is reduced to 12, which 3 current teams get the boot?
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| Quote ="Him"That would be very interesting if they're accepted and the league is reduced to 12, which 3 current teams get the boot?'"
Can we only get rid of 3?
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| Of the current lot? London, Cas and Salford are the most obvious picks.
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| Looks like two leagues of 10 has won the day then
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| Crowd of 14,858 today
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| Quote ="Wigg'n"Can we only get rid of 3?'"
No, as the most famous club in the world, perhaps Wigan will be given the option of removing two further clubs. May I suggest Leeds & Warrington?
Yep get Toulouse in I say & maybe in another ten years the French national side will prove a worthy opponent to G.B which I presume was the original remit when Catalan were given the green light.
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Quote ="JonB95"Crowd of 14,858 today'"
When have Halifax, Featherstone or any other current Championship club ever attracted even half that number? (Answer: never)
Moreover when has such a crowd been attracted to a rugby league match by visiting teams? (Answer: when Catalans and Warrington played in Barcelona).
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| Great crowd there this evening and they were treated to a good game. I would be interested to know how many were there from the Toulouse area and what they paid to get in.
Based on the history of French rugby league I am all for supporting Toulouse in their application, good luck to them.
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"Toulouse attendance was reported at 12,000.
When have Halifax, Featherstone or any other current Championship club ever attracted even half that number? (Answer: never)
Moreover when has such a crowd been attracted to a rugby league match by visiting teams? (Answer: when Catalans and Warrington played in Barcelona).'"
Dragons reported 14,858 on Facebook
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| Great game, great win in soaring temperatures and a very healthy crowd.
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| Quote ="JonB95"Dragons reported 14,858 on Facebook'"
Noted and correction to my OP has been made.
This should seal the deal for Toulouse getting a SL licence.
I just hope that something can be done to save the woeful London Broncos. London vs Toulouse is, to the uninitiated sports fan, flipping through his TV guide, even more mouthwatering than Leeds vs Toulouse or Wigan vs Toulouse.
In any case, Toulouse in SL can be a winner on many criteria.
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| Sounds like it was a really good game as well. The future looks bright for a SL club in Toulouse.
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"Noted and correction to my OP has been made.
This should seal the deal for Toulouse getting a SL licence.
I just hope that something can be done to save the woeful London Broncos. London vs Toulouse is, to the uninitiated sports fan, flipping through his TV guide, even more mouthwatering than Leeds vs Toulouse or Wigan vs Toulouse.
In any case, Toulouse in SL can be a winner on many criteria.'"
Don't forget Toulouse v Dragons could become a decent little rivalry down in France. They could maybe take the game to the RU or soccer stadiums and make an event of it.
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| What a pity that Catalans lost (on goal kicking)! A Catalans win would have been the icing on the cake.
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"What a pity that Catalans lost (on goal kicking)! A Catalans win would have been the icing on the cake.'"
Ha Ha Ha. What a clown. ATEOTD the scoreboard doesn't lie.
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| Quote ="JonB95"Don't forget Toulouse v Dragons could become a decent little rivalry down in France. They could maybe take the game to the RU or soccer stadiums and make an event of it.'"
Indeed it will become a great rivalry.
This crowd exceeded the projected future capacity of a renovated Stade des Minimes, the home ground of Toulouse Olympique, and was taken to the regular ground of the iconic rugby union club Stade Toulousain, which is Stade Ernest-Wallon. It was always the plan of Toulouse Olympique to move its big SL matches to Stade Ernest-Wallon.
However based on today's crowd (which only Wigan and Leeds at home could hope to match), more than half of Toulouse's home games would have to be moved. (i.e. vs Catalans, Leeds, Wigan, Warrington, St. Helens, Hull FC, Hull KR and Bradford). Only the SL clubs with a low traveling fan base (e.g. Huddersfield and whichever 2 other clubs remain in SL) would play at Stade des Minimes.
Stade des Minimes has one big advantage over the other stadia in that it is located right across the street from a metro station. Inebriated English fans can ride back to their Toulouse hotels in safety.
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| Didn't Cas take a record travelling support to Perpignan in some capacity this season? Why aren't they included in your list?
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| Quote ="The Devil's Advocate"
Yep get Toulouse in I say & maybe in another ten years the French national side will prove a worthy opponent to G.B which I presume was the original remit when Catalan were given the green light.'"
In another ten years I would hope that we would have at least a third, if not a fourth, French club in Super League.
In ten years, one hopes, Morgan Escare, Eloi Pelissier and Theo Fages will be considered the much admired veteran stars of the French national team.
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| Quote ="Fully"Didn't Cas take a record travelling support to Perpignan in some capacity this season? Why aren't they included in your list?'"
Because I am guessing (and it is only a guess) that Castleford won't be in Super League from 2015 on.
Then again, I don't know which of the hypothesized Super League competitions that have been floated will turn out to be the one adopted in 2015. So Castleford could still be in the mix in 2015. Nobody knows for sure.
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| This is the best and most uplifting news on SL attendances since 17,873 turned up to see Paris St Germain play Sheffield Eagles in 1996.
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| Quote ="The Devil's Advocate"No, as the most famous club in the world, perhaps Wigan will be given the option of removing two further clubs. May I suggest Leeds & Warrington? '"
Pfft. The days of Lindsay are over, didnt you know that Darth Hetherington runs the RFL these days?
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE".
When have Halifax, Featherstone or any other current Championship club ever attracted even half that number? (Answer: never)
Moreover when has such a crowd been attracted to a rugby league match by visiting teams? (Answer: when Catalans and Warrington played in Barcelona).'"
Great crowd, but Fax have had 29,153 through the turnstiles in the past. Ok, a while ago, but a one-off game does have a certain "novelty" factor, and I guess it was very well advertised in the local area. The acid test is whether this can be sustained week on week.
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| Quote ="HXSparky"Great crowd, but Fax have had 29,153 through the turnstiles in the past. Ok, a while ago, but a one-off game does have a certain "novelty" factor, and I guess it was very well advertised in the local area. The acid test is whether this can be sustained week on week.'"
Like I said before it would be interesting to know how much people paid to get in. 11,000 watched the test in Lens last year, but most got in for free if memory serves.
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| Superb effort, especially considering a Toulouse team wasn't even playing. How many fans would turn up at Leeds & Wigan (too hotbeds of RL) to watch a completely different team play?
France is a massively untapped area with huge potential. Lets hope we get some clever people to release that potential.
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