Salary cap for next year is too high to stop big clubs buying an all-star team.

Whilst on the topic of les quinzistes, Stade Francais & FCL are looking at the strong possibility of playing each other next month in a game of one half union, the other half league. Didn't Wigan do something similar some years ago?

Stade Francais, seriously? That's some great exposure for FCL, but surely it will be a complete mismatch?

Quote ="phil4.13"Whilst on the topic of les quinzistes, Stade Francais & FCL are looking at the strong possibility of playing each other next month in a game of one half union, the other half league. Didn't Wigan do something similar some years ago?'" https://twitter.com/fcl13/status/83878683198238720 Yes we did. We also went down to the Middlesex sevens and we were bloody good.

Quote ="phil4.13"Whilst on the topic of les quinzistes, Stade Francais & FCL are looking at the strong possibility of playing each other next month in a game of one half union, the other half league. Didn't Wigan do something similar some years ago?'" https://twitter.com/fcl13/status/83878683198238720 Yes we did. We also went down to the Middlesex sevens and we were bloody good.

Confirmed to be played at Lezignan Wednesday evening 27th July, a full game of league

Far be it from me to care about what sounds like an out-and-out gimmick, but I hope Les Pinkies fecking smash 'em. Forget the score - crack some heads. Hope Cologni plays and plays like he used to; clothesline-tastic.

Massive exposure for FCL. No idea why the Paris would want to do this, exposure for the XIII game, if they win then they're the megabucks team beating a local side, if they lose they look really stupid (and chances are they will lose playing a different game).
Could it be that this is Paris investigating the option of starting a league side?

Maybe it was the fact that both teams have played in Pink? Stade are doing pre-season training in the area and the players suggested it would be a good training exercise seems to be the only reason. I think both teams are treating it as a friendly runabout, rather than a serious inter-code point proving thing. Three twenty-minute periods.

Rumours to that end have been flying about for a while now

But the guy who gave rise to all those rumours (Max Guazzini), by turning up to the France/Australia game and reminiscing about watching Mille RL as a kid, is no longer the clubs owner/president. As SF nearly went bust last month, can't see an RL club being high on the agenda of the new owner.

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Oh did they? My heart bleeds.
Maybe paying super-annuated Australian RL players isn't the best business plan after all. *cough* Toulon *cough cough*

I've heard Stade Français are training for the game in Castelnaudary.

Yes they played Bath. I went to the game.

Won the first half (League) but got well beaten in the second half (Union)

There were two games, one of each code. Did you go to the game at Maine Road or Twickenham? The biggest cheer of the night at Maine Road was when Bath scored their try. Phil De Glanville did himself proud. Jeremy Guscott was a disgrace.

They are attending FCL's defensive training tomorrow night. FCL are without their foreign legion & the Bentleys while Stade won't have their internationals.

Stade win 32-28 in front of more than 4000 spectators. They changed their whole team every 10min & played with full body protection! FCL played with 8 juniors who by all accounts did very well.

Boo. FCL should be chucked out of the league for bringing the game into disrepute.

Great pictures of Jc Hall, who is on RLFans (his name is Hall66). Credits : www.hall66.com

Great pictures of Jc Hall, who is on RLFans (his name is Hall66). Credits : www.hall66.com

That padding

What are they f---ing scared of? Bunch of -----s

And so it seems they are over 500,000eur in debt again but have already been linked in the local media with a swoop for Morgan Escare.

The plan is to convert him into a union winger.

How they plan to fund this is not made clear.

Endless source of funding from Sheik Bakhanda.

haha, think that's the trouble. Not just with them but with the whole top 14.

Just when it cant get any worse for them... this happens...


WOW!!!