A recent Challenge Cup Final
Competitive team
Decent ground
Decent crowds

I'd say they were more sucessful than most...............

i can't actually keep track of all the moans but was it catalan they were moaning about where their chairperson was going to reveal some mysterious evidence re richard lewis or was that london being allowed to reform, either that or it was 3 of the past 6 years they were complaining about being kicked out in favour of catalans.

I'm just joshing with you pal

Conspiracy theories..........you've got to love em.

France 2008 - last at world cup
France 2009 - last and thrashed in four nations
France 2010 - lost to WALES and their place in the four nations

Catalans dependence on overseas players in the key positions hasn't helped the French national side

yet many teams would take bosc!

1973 mean anything btw!?

I thought this was about Catalan, not the French national side.

and what sounds like a cracking atmosphere

the club is a success. franchises were brought in for several reasons one of which was to improve the national side, that hasn't worked hence why i said they were on the way to being a successful franchise rather than already there

Then none of the English SL teams are successful franchises, as England are as crap as ever.

Right?

Yes, depressing isn't it

Your a disgrace to the Stockport race!

I might be depressed if I agreed with the view that the success of a franchise is only ensured by the performance of the national team, which the franchise has no direct control over.

What happened 38 years ago.

We have violent agreement

Catalan as a franchise are a sucess

I think the Rubettes were No.1

gb last won the ashes against australia

What an atmosphere. We have mexican waves, constant chanting, flags and confetti, capacity crowd.

Simply superb, a credit to the competition.

Widnes have never been particularly against Catalans. It's quite frustrating the amount of complete fabrications are levelled against us. We have questioned the viability of crusaders and london, and with often good reasons to, but don't lie.

Cheers.
Sadly its not going to change anytime soon is it?.

You missed out Salford too.

I wont take pontificating on behaviour of Widnes fans in general from a Castleford fan. If you are going to be judging us all on the behaviour of a few then "those in glass houses" mate.

That is just a lovely lovely post. Encapsulates you to a T.

The hypocrisy is just breath taking

You're nothing but a WUM, and anyone who treats you as anything but is wasting both their time and the boards time. In other words, shut up you tart.

Concise and clear. I vote this post four stars out of five -, good job, sir.

You really do yourself no favours. Just wailling about with insults like anybody cares.

You can keep your insults and hypocrisy and ill carry on laughing at you.