League One final this weekend, any predictions? This bloke doesn't sound too happy though. theseladscanrunfor80mins.blogspo ... 1.html?m=1

League One final this weekend, any predictions? This bloke doesn't sound too happy though. theseladscanrunfor80mins.blogspo ... 1.html?m=1

For the good of the game, hopefully it'll be Toulouse.

I agree with the sentiment, however referring to Toulouse as toxic each time is just plain old nastiness.
It's not Tolouses fault they were lumped into the wrong league, it's not their fault they have full timers in their ranks, it's not the coaches fault that the RFL allow a bigger allotment of cash for players so they can have better players.

The author rightly points out this is down to the RFL but much of his vitriol is aimed at the Tolouse club itself, if things were the other way around would Rochdale or any club in TO's position play things any different, no they bloody well wouldn't!

It's total nonsense, he's claiming 11 imports when Toulouse have 6 overseas (Australia/NZ) players and two English in their squad, the vast majority of their squad are homegrown players aged 23 or under. Rochdale on the other hand are a dual-reg club with Warrington and regularly field full time players. Toulouse have also been noted for their sportsmanship in just about every match they've played. The author has literally just made up a load of rubbish to the point where I'm half convinced that that article is satire.

Uuugh, so total cack, so why even print such crud when the facts as you've put them are so different, total douche if so.

Is it going to be televised anywhere or will it be the usual highlights job?

The french game you mean ? Bless....

This ted, insular, pathetic attitude is why RL is still confined to small areas.

Get rid of these miserable, small time pillocks from the sport. I'm sick of these idiots holding the game back at every level of the sport.

It is Tolouse's fault they are in League One, people have short memories. They made such a mess of it last time that they were forced to withdraw from the Championship. The Championship and League One clubs said you can come back in but you have to earn it. Simple. I know a lot of you struggle to remember there even is rugby league outside of SL, but try and remember every now and then.

Nice rant, but who above said they shouldn't have been put into League 1?

No, I mean the game as a whole. Nice post though, written in the style of a 10 year old for some reason? Why some Leigh fans get so angry about expansion is really odd.

I hope Rochdale's coach Kilshaw gets to use his own legs as goal posts when Toulouse go for a conversion, Mark Kherliah misses and Kilshaw gets hit in the crackers. Oops, sorry, did i say that. My apologies .... cough, cough.

I must be more moderate and sportsmanlike. With any other team in League 1, the coach's and teams have been exceptional. Rochdale players are being led by a fiend that wants to stop any international expansion of the game with his regular rants. Rochdale must be issued more yellow cards than any other club in League 1, or very close to it, and that's more the style and direction coming from the coach.

But the bottom line is that Rochdale will be stronger and more determined than they were in their recent loss. We'll have to see how Toulouse handle whatever tactics Kilshaw puts in place. I wouldn't put it past him to throw a banana skin under the linesman's feet [ oops did i say that.

Rochdale will get smashed by Toulouse, and the same again next year with Toronto.

Toulouse will win by about 30 points in the final and Rochdale will be beaten by Barrow to claim the second promotion spot. Justice will have been done. Next season the Canadians plus one Cumbrian side will win promotion so where will that leave the Hornets ?

[size=150And in 2020, Tokyo will smash Toulouse, and then they will return to the French League (again)[/size

I predict :

- Kilshaw will complain about the standard of refereeing and linesman will cost his side points
- Will choose to throw the ball around rather than slowing the game down
- Will rant about the foreign invasion, play victim and put Brexit on every shirt as a show of solidarity
- Will be quietly drunk as a skunk after victory in Toulouse
- Will dance naked on the photos of the Toulouse team for a week
- Rochdale will play like they never played before and spring a surprise

Score: Toulouse 12 Rochdale 44

..... something's not right here. Oops sorry

In the sin bin. Justice will be done to the coach.

Ooooh, that's nasty !!

Haha .... actually i just saw Kilshaw's pre game interview. He looks and sounds like a changed man. The Club must have been in his ear to reform - so my vitriol can be diluted now !! He admits they slowed the games down previously, but said they will be attacking with their previously absent backs returning. They are a very good team, so Toulouse will have to play at another level to beat them, in my opinion. I think he will need to be careful not to risk any " on reports" - just in case they loose players if they have to play the in the playoffs. It will be interesting to watch their strategy. A cool 19C day is forecast - ideal. For those that can read French, a bit on the TO tactics for the day, from TO player Gregory White and some complimentary words for Rochdale Hornets : www.to13.com/actualites/finale-l ... ory-white/

Haha .... actually i just saw Kilshaw's pre game interview. He looks and sounds like a changed man. The Club must have been in his ear to reform - so my vitriol can be diluted now !! He admits they slowed the games down previously, but said they will be attacking with their previously absent backs returning. They are a very good team, so Toulouse will have to play at another level to beat them, in my opinion. I think he will need to be careful not to risk any " on reports" - just in case they loose players if they have to play the in the playoffs. It will be interesting to watch their strategy. A cool 19C day is forecast - ideal. For those that can read French, a bit on the TO tactics for the day, from TO player Gregory White and some complimentary words for Rochdale Hornets : www.to13.com/actualites/finale-l ... ory-white/

UPDATE

In the last 24hrs ....... a promo video has just been released on Facebook. Look under Toulouse Olympique and share if you want to give international expansion a lift.

almost 4700 views in 24 hrs, and rapidly climbing .

5 players are back in for Toulouse that were not in the last Rochdale game.

3 or 4 are returning for Rochdale

Some supporters are telling me that Kilshaw is communicating that he will attack, and not use slowing tactics. He has told his players to be hard and provocative in the face of the Frenchman to force reactions, just don't let the ref or linesman see anything that could risk suspension in case they have to go to the playoffs.

He still hates the French, hates international expansion, but was told to improve his image by the Club as it risked bringing the club into disrepute. The CEO left his job, around the time of those earlier episodes. Enough was enough.

But despite all the public face changing Kilshaw is rope-able for the way fans and the RL community treated him for his bad verbal conduct and the grief from the 1st and 2nd games went. The Widnes games did not go unnoticed by Denis Betts and neither a few of the others including Doncaster and Hunslet. He will not want failure. He wants revenge and justification for his tactics even though he's pretending to soften his presentation with a new haircut, beard, being well dressed and complimentary of Toulouse. But Kilshaw hates Toulouse.

So Rochdale will not be slowing it down, they will attack, and attack hard.

This is Kilshaw's day - he must not make a mistake. Rochdale will be twice the side they were on the last visit.

Even though Toulouse beat Leigh and pushed hard to win the respect of Wakefield, they will have to be twice the team they were against them. This is going to be a very good Rochdale side.

But there's one thing I know, Toulouse respect all their opponents.- equally, Toulouse do not forget. Kilshaw's tactics will be the deciding factor.

Go Toulouse !! Vive expansion internationale !!

Cliched clap trap. So, tell me, why is Toulouse winning good for the game?

They have massively more potential than Rochdale.

Having had to witness the abject performance against Toulouse few weeks back anything has to better than the negative RL dished up that day by the Hornets. Even the coach admitted the anti-rugby tactics didn't work in his interview a couple of days ago.

Because Toulouse is an expansion team that will bring thousands of new players and thousands of new spectators in France into the game if it rises to Super League. That is good for the game.

Rochdale by contrast is a little parochial English town that will add nothing in terms of new English players or spectators to the game, and will never rise to Super League, even if it wins.

If you don't know the answer your just confirming the things other people say about you is true