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France V England - Avignon, Oct 22

Winner

  • France

    Votes: 4 26.7%

  • England

    Votes: 7 46.7%

  • Draw

    Votes: 4 26.7%
  • Total voters
    15
Storm13

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Squad looks like it's finally on the right path with a good mix of old and young players.

Hooefully that rumour on another site isn't true about a couple of players
 
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siv

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Burns said:
Dear France,
Please don't be terrible.
Lots of love,
International Rugby League.
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Lets see who plays better Scotland or France against England

France wasnt good enough to make the 4 Nations which is disappointing
 
Foreign Legion

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he former Sydney Roosters prop was among a host of absentees when the French suffered an 84-4 humiliation in their last meeting with England in Leigh last October after missing the last two months of the season with a knee injury.

Casty is one of 11 Dragons players named in new coach Aurelien Cologni's 20-man squad for the game at Parc des Sports.

Catalans half-back Lucas Albert was among the players discarded from Cologni's initial 26-strong squad, along with St Helens scrum-half Theo Fages.


Wakefield prop Mickael Simon, Warrington second rower Benjamin Jullien, Castleford prop Gadwin Springer, Hull KR second rower Kevin Larroyer, and London Broncos scrum-half William Barthau are part of the reduced squad.

France squad (Catalans Dragons players unless stated): O Arnaud (Avignon), W Barthau (London Broncos), G Bonnet (Lezignan), J Bousquet, R Casty, A Da Costa, V Duport, B Garcia, T Gigot, M Goudemand (Avignon), B Jullien (Warrington), K Larroyer (Hull KR), R Navarrete, J Negre (St Esteve), M Pala, E Pelissier, U Perez, S Robin, M Simon (Wakefield), G Springer (Castleford).



http://www.sportinglife.com/rugby-l...ored-as-france-captain-for-clash-with-england
 
jim_57

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Can make a decent side out of that, really hope they can show some heart under a new coach on French soil. Not expecting a victory, but a lot closer than last year and build from there. RL needs France as a force again.
 
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adamkungl said:
Theo Fages looked real good the games i saw this year...
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Fages is a gun, he missed the back end of the season through injury and asked to withdraw from the squad for this match and apparently the new coach lost his shit and permanently expelled him from the team to send a message to the other French players to stop treating the national team as a joke. Hopefully he will be reinstated in time for the World Cup because he's probably France's best player.

As for this match, they will get smashed out wide, too many youngsters and local part-timers. They need to field 1-17 Super League regulars to be competitive, at the moment they probably have a pool of about 20 to choose from but a couple of injuries and they're back to using guys from the local league as we see here. A lot of good young players coming through so hopefully this will not be the case in the future.
 
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Evil Homer said:
Fages is a gun, he missed the back end of the season through injury and asked to withdraw from the squad for this match and apparently the new coach lost his shit and permanently expelled him from the team to send a message to the other French players to stop treating the national team as a joke. Hopefully he will be reinstated in time for the World Cup because he's probably France's best player.

As for this match, they will get smashed out wide, too many youngsters and local part-timers. They need to field 1-17 Super League regulars to be competitive, at the moment they probably have a pool of about 20 to choose from but a couple of injuries and they're back to using guys from the local league as we see here. A lot of good young players coming through so hopefully this will not be the case in the future.
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I'm hoping that the Catalans Academy will really excel the number of French players coming through in to Super League. Also games like these are a chance for the Elite players to get themselves in the spotlight. France need 30-40+ regular SL players to be a genuine consistent threat.
 
adamkungl

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Evil Homer said:
Fages is a gun, he missed the back end of the season through injury and asked to withdraw from the squad for this match and apparently the new coach lost his shit and permanently expelled him from the team to send a message to the other French players to stop treating the national team as a joke. Hopefully he will be reinstated in time for the World Cup because he's probably France's best player.

As for this match, they will get smashed out wide, too many youngsters and local part-timers. They need to field 1-17 Super League regulars to be competitive, at the moment they probably have a pool of about 20 to choose from but a couple of injuries and they're back to using guys from the local league as we see here. A lot of good young players coming through so hopefully this will not be the case in the future.
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Maybe the French coach should schedule more than 1 game in a year if he wants players to take it seriously
 
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adamkungl said:
Maybe the French coach should schedule more than 1 game in a year if he wants players to take it seriously
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Playing nothing but a bunch of dud matches against the likes of Ireland every year is part of the reason they don't.
 
Coastbloke

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Seriously, if the ESL has $400,000 for each NRL club to come over for an expanded WCC, then surely the RLIF can come up with some cash and couple that with sponsors and such could fund a Tri Series with France at home with either PNG, Fiji, Samoa or Tonga..

Isn't that what the 2008 and 2013 WCs are for..?? Sure someone has to organise it, but it's not rocket science lol.. The sport won't go anywhere with this rampant myopia.. :rage::rage:
 
adamkungl

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Coastbloke said:
Seriously, if the ESL has $400,000 for each NRL club to come over for an expanded WCC, then surely the RLIF can come up with some cash and couple that with sponsors and such could fund a Tri Series with France at home with either PNG, Fiji, Samoa or Tonga..

Isn't that what the 2008 and 2013 WCs are for..?? Sure someone has to organise it, but it's not rocket science lol.. The sport won't go anywhere with this rampant myopia.. :rage::rage:
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I get the feeling everyone's just hanging out for post-2017. If nothing changes then, well it never will.
 
jim_57

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Sort of off topic, but with it looking like we're going to have bi-annual big tournaments, I wouldn't mind seeing tiered qualifiers with nations who meet certain domestic criteria getting first attempt at qualifying to atop a situation where we could have the big 3 + 5 heritage stacked nations with little domestic activity in the IC Cup.

So for Europe you could have
Qualifier 1 - France V Wales (Winner Qualifies, Loser gets 2nd chance)
Qualifier 2 - France/Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Lebanon, Serbia etc.

Pacific
Qualifier 1 - PNG V Fiji
Qualifier 2 - PNG/Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands etc.

World Qualifier
USA, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa etc.

Gives incentive to develop the game at domestic level to stand a better chance of qualifying for major tournaments.
 
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