He is about a million times more likely to be ParisSurtout.

FWIW Cliff reckons that the Stadistes may well be entering LER for the 2010/11 season. The rest I'd put down to fanciful thinking on the part of FrogRL / ParisSurtout.

wow, 2 computers in cas.

i wasnt even sure they had electricity there tbh

oh well lets just make it 10 years then, more time to produce juniors etc.

around 1/10th of the time its taken for leigh to do less in RL terms.

So you're not aware of Leigh's history then?

10 's fine for me , so that would be 16 million then

As for Leigh , we're happy where we are thanks

I don't understand this attitude among many fans in NL1 but especially Leigh fans?

Castleford's dead futuristic now mate.

I think he means as opposed to getting bum banged at the foot of SL every year.

By the way, NL1 doesn't exist. It's Championship and Championship 1 now

Calm down driver.

Getting into super league could be better for the club in the long run though.

Wow, these poor people will have to walk further now for the sake of art!

Yes we could lose 4 times as much money as we do at present

What dont you understand ?

Super League scares me. Yes, i'd love for my club to be in there. I'd love to be watching my team battle against the likes of Saints, Bradford and Leeds again. I'd want us to be competitive though. I wouldn't want to go through what Salford did last year and certainly not Celtic. I wouldn't want to relive another 2003.
I would want for my club to be as competitive as Hull KR. But at what cost? Debts of £3m? No thanks, not for the long term anyway. I crave SL for Halifax but alas i don't think we have the finances for it. We don't have the finances for a top six push and neither it seems do many other current SL clubs. Scary stuff no?

An inch off the waist, an inch on the brain.

you really are a massive twerp if you think the Leigh area has not produced many great players in the last 100 years.

I'm all for adding French teams to SL but what I would like to know is, what is the RFL's and/or FFRL's long term goals? To have a fully proffessional French SL? Surely that must be an end-goal for both governing bodies.

However, at the bare minimum I'd say that it's at least a decade off a competitive, well financially backed French league.

As for Toulouse in the SL, Yes. But only if they have met the criteria ie. reaching/winning a Grand Final and/or reaching/winning the NRC. If the RFL want to keep any dignity, they'll stand by their own guidelines.

They dont compete in the NRC , and since when have the RFL followed any guidelines , if they want Toulouse in SL , fine put them in

wow

i was expecting a moat with a drawnridge

im happy where leigh are as well.

going through recent leigh teams i can see future GB stars hanging from the rafters of the LSV.

if the RFL want any dignity from some people on here theyll just eliminate all expansion teams and stick to clubs within 1 mile of the M62

I would not necessarily disagree with that. However, you are missing a couple of important points:

1) I was responding to your original point that the new French club would produce junior talent in a space of 10 years which was 1/10 of the time (100 years!) that Leigh has taken. So to then go back and talk about the last maybe 5 or even 10 years is a bit ridiculous.

2) You are not looking at the very strong amateur set up in the town of Leigh which has fielded many current and past SL players, and internationals. Because of economics many of these players went elsewhere to earn their money (understandably) but if this was different, we would comfortably have a production line of good talent. We have just signed 3 very good younger players from Easts and Miners, and we will see where these guys end up.

In any event, as the strength in depth of the French international team is so weak, it would be very hard to judge the comparative success of junior development between, say, Leigh or any other English team for that matter.. and Stade Francais. SF may produce 6 French internationals, none of whom might get close to the GB team.

I would suggest an 18 team ESL with 4 or 5 French teams in it would be the long term goal. Get a TV deal like the NZ one for the NRL where a French TV company pays a decent whack for screening rights. Very much doubt we will ever see the French game strong enough now to have a 12 team fully pro league.
4 French teams, 2 Welsh teams and 12 English Teams would be a good 50 year goal for SL.

You think starbug is in cas? try to pay attention, confused trolls arent as interesting.

There are plenty of computers in cas thanks, many thousands in fact, though it doesnt shock me that something so obvious would suprise you.

You really didnt think that a town in western europe had electricity? the austrlian education system must really be failing.

for your reply which was amusing

its also good to see you thinking of responding to me at 2 am in the morning.

me id be going for a tea or warm milk to sleep, or if during the weekend stronger substances to party

but hey, its good to see you thinking of me mate.