Some anti-French posters raise the question: what good is French rugby league doing for British rugby league?

In today's game between Leigh and Barrow there were four (4) French men


Leigh Centurions: [iKevin Larroyer, Jordan Dezaria[/i

Barrrow Raiders: [iGeorgy Gambaro, Arnauld Barthes [/i (on loan from Catalans)


Even at Championship level it makes for a nice cosmopolitan European flavour for northern hemisphere rugby league, which already has [iEloi Pelissier[/i at London,[i Theodore Fages[/i at St Helens, [iMorgan Escare[/i and [iRomain Navarette[/i at Wigan, and [iGadwin Springer[/i at Castleford.

Hakim Miloudi?

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Who's said that?

Good point. Hakim Miloudi at Hull FC. I stand corrected.

Who said that.

We had a young French kid thiabalt franck but he’s returned home now I think we need another French team in SL the time is right and so are Toulouse unfortunately I don’t think they have enough this year

If you can quote them, I'll accept your post. Until then, your post is just fabricated as usual.

Flatcappears on here are always saying Catalan and Toulouse should play in the French League and that Toronto Wolfpack should play in the Canadian League. Have a look in the Toronto v Hull kr thread.

Do ‘flatcappears’ stop the cap slipping down?

So not one of you can provide a quote where a poster has suggested that French players don't bring anything to the game?
This forum has slid into the murky depths of being a troll house and at the bequest of the moderators it would seem.......another anti/pro expansion debate designed to deliver ad impressions for the ever decreasing pool of advertisers....and here I am responding. I got a rap on the knuckles recently for calling Jean a name and by-passing the swear filter....so in true cockney rhyming slang, the three of you are a bunch of James Blunts......in other words you write a lot but inevitably end up saying little but your popular with the housewives who run this place

I like to see French players playing their trade over here. It offers them an opportunity that the French system never could. Who want 's to play in the South of France anyway when you could be in Barrow in the rainy season.
The problem is that the French Elite set up is a basket case. Rarely do all the teams complete all of their fixtures. Given the support that they get from regional government they should all be well organised but they are not. If you think that we are provincial you ain't seen nuthin'. I just cannot get my head round the fact that my family's local village, equestrian centre, gets better television coverage and more often than French Elite 1.

French Elite 1 needs to be a feeder league to French Super League teams. Both England and France would benefit from this.

Yes indeed. Catalans and Toulouse (and later Avignon) in Super League can be fed talent by a rejuvenated French Elite competition. English clubs can also benefit from this.

I think Wanderer was referring more to Hakim's impact and popularity at Doncaster. We love him!

Check out @HakimMiloudi2’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/HakimMiloudi2/statu ... 83873?s=09

Check out @HakimMiloudi2’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/HakimMiloudi2/statu ... 83873?s=09

& exactly where are you from *town of birth & residence please* to call anyone a Flatcapper ?

Isn't that the goal of expansion? Using our system to promote theirs.

Yet when it comes to International RL, France get swatted away like flies.

Which is why France needs a bigger playing pool of French professional players, which can only come from more French clubs playing in Super League.

Probably because they don’t do what every other nation does and fill the team with Aussies

I resent that..... Tonga were actually Kiwis with only 2 aussies

Or maybe if Catalans played more French players...