Are you a union fan by any chance? Anything interesting or positive to balance it with? or is RL in France just 100% negative to you.

a SL club in paris will fix all these problems

Are you a union fan by any chance? Anything interesting or positive to balance it with? or is RL in France just 100% negative to you.

Tre cool,
I don`t believe that by stating what is actually happening on the ground here that you could assume that i am negative. I would love to tell you some good news stories but at the moment there isn`t any. Imagine if this was happening in england how would you report it, of course you would have a negative tone because its not good for the game.

So please , spare me from your high horse , i am on the ground here and have been for a while ,people are fed up with with how things just seem to be always going backwards.

The facts are that the game here is played in small villages run by some old people with nothing else to do and followed by a handfull of supporters that can still remember when the french side was greeted at mille with a ticket tape parade after they won the world cup.

Give me some ideas on what you think should be done here to find sponsors and to create interest in the game.?

If you're a Rugby League fan im a dutchman. You quite clearly have no respect for RL in France; despite its obvious weaknesses there is a lot to love about French RL and too many positives for a real fan to speak of the game there in such a derisory way. Go and troll elsewhere.

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i wouldn't call lyon, perpignan, toulouse, carcasonne small villages


when was that?

i have been to lyon and its a great city. it would be a big loss to the game.

1951.

Won't happen. One of them wil stay in place and TO will field a side in the LER (it will be a rubbish side but it will be there) so the comp will stay at 10. Possibly one less side to spread the talent will help the comp keep its level up.

France won the World Cup 3 years before it was first held. Now that really is impressive

No. The ticker tape parade in Mille was in 1951. But it was after the return of the French team from their glorious Test series victory over Australia in their first ever tour of that country.

[iqueenslander[/i was wrong in thniking that the parade followed the 1954 World Cup. But you were wrong and extremely unfair for not noting that 1951 was the year of the Mille ticker tape parade.

so queenslander was wrong. end of.

I still enjoying the Championship despite the 'bigger clubs' playing in Super League.

Not too sharp there are you , I was reffering to the Elite French league

This is what you get when you treat clubs and competitions with contempt

Easy Tiger! I thought you were talking about Toulouse and Catalans being taken out of the French Elite League and entered into SL and The Championship. Therefore leaving the Elite League without two of its bigger clubs. The majority of the 'bigger clubs' play outside of The Championship and Championship One, but I and many others still take a keen interest in it as it's rugby league and still competetive and means a lot to the supporters of the clubs taking part.
So if this isn't the case, what exactly where you talking about?
That's a genuine question, not sarcasm.

The elite clubs were not too pleased with Toulouse ' ditching ' them to play in the Championship , hence why Toulouse couldn't find anybody to play a friendley against them as preparation and thier refusal to let them compete in the Lord Derby Cup

So now you have Toulouse not wanted by the clubs in the Championship over here or wanted by thier ex rivals in France

The best way to alienate fans and clubs and make them feel worthless , tell them your leaving for somewhere ' better ' without actually ' winning ' the right on the pitch

How to make friends and influence people

What is your evidence for that?

Also "their" is not spelt "thier", not even in Leigh schools.

So you were talking about Toulouse and Catalans being taken out of the French Elite League and entered into SL and The Championship.
Not so sharp?

So I just read it the wrong way

No comment about the rest of the post though , it's easy to be ' supportive and interested ' when you are looking down , not quite the same when you are the ones directly affected though

I'm sure if the owners of our bigger clubs Saints and Leeds stated they want to play in the NRL because SL was not as good you would be suitably impressed

Has the massive success of Le Cats ( and potential massive success of TO ) had a negetive effect on the French Domestic league? Are things as bad as it looks in the Elite League? There must be positives going on?

How bad is it exactly? any links?

Haven't Lyon asked to leave the Elite league next season? Rumours of other clubs in financial difficulties.

as far as i know if they do another team will take their place.
toulouse also want to enter a team.