To be fair to Hudds that figure's 2000 more than I expected personally.

It has to be a Wigan v Saints final (for the attendance as much as anything else). Cats at Old Trafford would be an utter disaster and embarrassment IMO.

As well as the 5 starting they had 3 on the bench making 8/17. The same rules apply to Catalan as every other super league club.

Yes I know, but it seems like a genuine reasonable discussion is impossible on these boards, I'd suggest more English clubs should be encouraged to look at French juniors

That just shows how consistently bad huddersfields support is, week in week out.

It's nothing to brag about.

We have one on loan for this season and next and he is very good, hoping to keep him and he loves it hear

The general forum over on TRL is even worse than the virtual terrace these days which is something i never thought id say

Congratulations to the Huddersfield Giants club on posting a healthy 'afterthought' attendance in the region of a nicely-rounded 6,900 to be exact. The announcement of the attendance figure was such an 'afterthought' that it didn't even register on Sky's TV coverage. Lovely stuff indeed.

As SL attendances go, 6,900 is right up there in terms of polished cleanliness with several similarly polished attendance figures this season claimed by the Salford and Catalan clubs on their twitter and YouTube feeds, give or take a few nicely rounded 100's, 200's or 1000's added or shaved off here or there for maximum effect.

SL attendances by plenty!

SL play-off attendances by even more!!

France regularly beat England at junior level, the kids being produced are talented in the extreme but no one else seems to notice. It's not Catalans job to sign up every French junior under the sun.

It is their job to find 17 good ones and turn them into SL players!

And how many clubs in Super League have 17 home-grown SL quality players in their starting line ups?

Doesn't the stand that everyone was in hold over 7,000? It looked pretty full to me on the TV.

it holds 8,000 ish so 6,900 isn't that far off!

Catalans have fielded 21 home-grown players this year which I would guess is far more than any other SL club.

Wigan: 22

Thanks for that HH, thats the type of post I was hoping to see, hopefully more of those will continue to develop in the future

Am I right in saying Catalan are entering a team into the u19s (or whatever it is) next year? That can only help matters.

How many English teams have an entire country of jnrs to pick from? I don't see the NZ warriors only being able to field 5 kiwis.

If there was only one club in Yorkshire I would expect it to be able to field 17 Yorkshire developed players.

They could quite easily field two or three teams of France developed players but they don't because, you know, they want to win just like everyone else. Also I know for a fact that you wouldn't hold any other club to that standard. It's a club team, not a national team or a regional select team. You're talking absolute ing nonsense.

All the English teams also have access to the 'entire country of juniors' BTW.

Once again you are showing a complete lack of understanding of the game in Europe.

Once again you are showing a complete lack of understanding of the game in Europe.

It would seem the point here isnt the numbers available, but the development issue, yes like any other club the Cats want to be successful, but no matter what anybody says they like all clubs do have a responsibility ( and a vested interest for their own future success ) to develop players, and in their case ' French players '

They are 80 minutes from a grand final, with a French coach and (as far as I'm aware) a strong set of accounts.

The next step is to help Tolouse join, but ever entering via Championship 1 won't work. We might have to upset a few people in places like Leigh, but in the long term it would be worth it.

I dont disagree, however it would be more the people from Hull,Widnes,Salford,Wakefield and even Catalans who would be upset, I assume you are suggesting a Catalans type 3 year exemption which could easily result in the Catalans being involved in the relegation play offs

No, Its Catalan Dragons job to win SL games.

Quite right.
It was also HKRs job to win games when they were getting shiit over the last 5yrs for using to many overseas players