£42,000 for salford to go play a game of rugby in france

You don't think super league will contribute for their officials then?

He’s a Labour supporter. Cheap shots are all they have.

Quote ="Steph Curry"He’s a Labour supporter. Cheap shots are all they have.'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3_BRSOkFyY

Quote ="Steph Curry"He’s a Labour supporter. Cheap shots are all they have.'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3_BRSOkFyY

IRONY OVERLOAD

Have you any opinion on the Toulouse situation and whether clubs should travel and if so, whether any club should be exempt and for what reason ?

Just asking

Paul King Salford director......

[i“I sympathise with Catalans. If it wasn’t for their owner Bernard Guasch’s money, how would they compete? “Not going was never really a serious option. It’s something I considered for maybe half a day. “Would we really want a £15,000 fine and a 10-point deduction? a 10-point deduction is a serious situation".[/i

The reality is if Salford had decided not to go they effectively would be facing relegation. Whilst this is an extraordinary situation it still highlights the total drift in strategy where we have this one club so far out on a limb contributing nothing much to the game here and certainly nothing to the game in France, whose presence now threatens Salford's bank balance if not their survival as a pro club.

Notwithstanding the same nonsense being repeated with Toulouse.

Very true.

Can anyone be bothered anymore to call out the mistruths two posts above?

looks like you can at 2.20 am in the morning

is it keeping you up can't you sleep

Seems one of our genuine posters can be bothered to call you out, my only worry posting this is you get high on people's indignation and it feeds your nasty little habit.

I'd guess he's on the late shift, probably been winding them up [i"on the other side"[/i before that

Taking your ' logic ' to the next level,and I disagree that the international game will ' help ' the sport,it is mostly the case that the governing bodies pay for the internationals - I avoid,deliberately,the funding of club trips to Toulouse by the RFL.
By your logic the international sides are wasting their time,and money,to have internationals played.
I shall allow you to go to the Jamaican players and inform them of this,bearing in mind many of them funded a lot of things themselves.
Just because you want the sport played at the bottom of your garden shouldn't prevent the sport expanding.
Soccer clubs,another full time professional sport,travel long distances into Europe,should they prove successful enough in this country.
Strangely,those nasty horrible French clubs travel to England more times in a season than Salford do with their once a year visit to France.
I am surprised you are not acknowledging how professional and well - run,and non-complaining, those nasty horrible French clubs really are.
Maybe wealthy French people are better than wealthy males along the M62 corridor...

What exactly makes me ungenuine? The mere fact that I disagree with you?

But this is what forums are all about, everyone has a right to have an opinion.

isn't is what they chose to do, as British clubs teams have no choice at all in the matter

My point is factually correct.
The Super League club owners didn't want Toronto and allegedly voted them out - no doubt if the French clubs are NOT wanted, they could do similar;again.
As it was mooted,during the Licensing period,of a 20 miles gap between clubs,perhaps they could change it to a 20 miles maximum distance for all Super League clubs to travel.
Obviously I have used miles and no other measurement.
Twenty quid maximum travel costs,perhaps?
Exciting times ahead,then? I hate flying,anyway...

now you've gone from one extreme to the other,

you say it was mooted that 20 miles distance between clubs during the licencing period have you a linky for that

how was that going to work anyway then when there was Leeds bradford cas wakey all within distance of 20 miles just have one club

Quote ="snowie"now you've gone from one extreme to the other, you say it was mooted that 20 miles distance between clubs during the licencing period have you a linky for that how was that going to work anyway then when there was Leeds bradford cas wakey all within distance of 20 miles just have one club '" I do wish rugby league followers would take advantage of learning things,instead of implying/insinuating/hinting that I am less than truthful. Geographical Criteria BBC for you - before a total leftie takeover news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 138760.stm

Quote ="snowie"now you've gone from one extreme to the other, you say it was mooted that 20 miles distance between clubs during the licencing period have you a linky for that how was that going to work anyway then when there was Leeds bradford cas wakey all within distance of 20 miles just have one club '" I do wish rugby league followers would take advantage of learning things,instead of implying/insinuating/hinting that I am less than truthful. Geographical Criteria BBC for you - before a total leftie takeover news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 138760.stm

[u"The ultimate aim is to strengthen the competition. This, it is hoped, will in turn produce more players able to compete successfully at international level".
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This is the Linky, and of course the two top French clubs were incapable of producing international players who could take on England. Australia or New Zealand.

In fact they presided over a further drop in the numbers and quality such that the 4 nations became 3 nations and the England France test games were hidden away on a dark night in Leigh before being quietly abandoned.....

You win Buddy

Widnes and Fev are refusing to go to France as well so 2 more 24-0 wins for Toulouse, who with teams refusing to go France will be long odd's on to win Championship and a Super League place next season

It was referring to ENGLAND!
However,it now seems English players in,or with experience of, the NRL get selected as their competition is far superior,on and off the field,apparently.
It was meant to improve the standard of players in THIS COUNTRY.
Snowie still wins,though.


Where did Super League go so far wrong...?

shot him self in the foot

forgetting about the clubs below them

Most definitely! They chose another hand that feeds,but forgot the game.

Quote ="Huddersfield1895"Widnes and Fev are refusing to go to France as well so 2 more 24-0 wins for Toulouse, who with teams refusing to go France will be long odd's on to win Championship and a Super League place next season'" They haven't refused to go, they were never scheduled to go as Part Time teams. The RFL Board have confirmed that part-time teams in the Betfred Championship will not be required to fulfil away fixtures against Toulouse Olympique for as long as the current UK Government quarantine regulations (which require players and other staff to isolate for at least 5 days on their return from France) remain in place. That means Toulouse’s home fixtures against Featherstone Rovers and Widnes Vikings, scheduled for May 1 and 8 respectively, will be postponed – but their first home match of the season, against London Broncos on April 18, will go ahead because the Broncos are a full-time squad. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/57 ... -olympique

Quote ="Huddersfield1895"Widnes and Fev are refusing to go to France as well so 2 more 24-0 wins for Toulouse, who with teams refusing to go France will be long odd's on to win Championship and a Super League place next season'" They haven't refused to go, they were never scheduled to go as Part Time teams. The RFL Board have confirmed that part-time teams in the Betfred Championship will not be required to fulfil away fixtures against Toulouse Olympique for as long as the current UK Government quarantine regulations (which require players and other staff to isolate for at least 5 days on their return from France) remain in place. That means Toulouse’s home fixtures against Featherstone Rovers and Widnes Vikings, scheduled for May 1 and 8 respectively, will be postponed – but their first home match of the season, against London Broncos on April 18, will go ahead because the Broncos are a full-time squad. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/57 ... -olympique

I don't know about that, you may be right, but there is a re-structure of SL coming up plus can a club really be promoted on a series of phoney wins, or if it's tight a phoney points difference? If the re-structure was to be 10 clubs in SL with Toulouse promoted that leaves the number of English clubs for SKY as eight.

SKY required more than that under the old deal, maybe they won't mind only 8 English clubs 2022 if they are paying far less for Superleauge?

So maybe those who really believe, and aren't just Wumming either here or on TRL

, that those who run our game see the future of the game as "Anglo French" will get their way and they will see "Expansion"

But the only "expansion" I can ever see, as was the case with Toronto, is a massive expansion of air miles and the massive expansion of the costs of such travel.

Then what after that? Do we feed in Avignon 2023, and Villeneuve 2024? Who then steps down and reverts to semi professional for them?...Useless Wakey and Fartown?

Once we have four """French""" clubs in Superleague can we resurrect the whole purpose of Catalans in the first place and revive France.v.Great Britain test matches home and away every season?

Do we change the qualification to play for France (so "France" can compete), to simply that a player can be selected for France as long as they play for a French club??

Do SKY renew 2025 when half the game will be "Anglo French" but with hardly a Frenchman in sight let alone any French RL TV deals?

Thoughts??