Big news from Barcelona

[Big-Hitter]

If you want to hear something more tangible (and less pie in the sky) about rugby league activity in Barcelona, watch this space...... (fingers crossed!!!!)

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Pics of the dragons in Barcelona

http://www.rugbyforumxiii.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20726

 

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[langpark]

nice pics!

 

[Sam_the_man]

as all of you know i love league and believe we need to expand our game immediately.....but i find i must ask this question. Whats in it for Barcelona FC to get involved in the Super League?

 

[Ari Gold]

as all of you know i love league and believe we need to expand our game immediately.....but i find i must ask this question. Whats in it for Barcelona FC to get involved in the Super League?

Cost of running a SL club = 1/5th Ronaldhino's salary (approx)

Therefore they are expanding their product into France and England through a different channel at a low cost.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Cost of running a SL club = 1/5th Ronaldhino's salary (approx)

Therefore they are expanding their product into France and England through a different channel at a low cost.

Even if it is 1/5 the bloke's pay, it is still a substantial amount of money that must come from somewhere.

For just $35 a month, about 1/100 of our salaries, we could sponsor a child in Africa etc... but not many do.

 

[The Tank]

Maybe they just love sport. And saw the CC Final and enjoyed RL.

 

[ali]

It would be great if Barcelona got involved in RL. But i would start them off in Elite 1 with the aim of Super League in 2012. In fact i would like to see Treviso and any other west Euro teams also go through Elite 1. It would breathe life into the French League, and by 2012 i would be looking to reintroduce promotion and relegation to Super League. I'd like to see a playoff from the winner of Elite 1 and the winner of NL1 to see who goes up.

Assuming Toulouse gets in for 2009, I reckon there will be more interested French teams in the very near future. So why not give them a realistic avenue to get in.

By the way, having barca playing rugby league at a good level is a great way to get interest in the game in South America. Barca, could be a possible home for Argentinian Union player. FC barca would be the most popular European football club in South America by a mile.

Secondly, if barca got to Super League or at least became a strong Elite 1 club, I would love to see Catalans vs Barca as an annual fixture of Catalan national day, which incidentally is next Tuesday i think.

 

[Sam_the_man]

One wonders if Barca were to get serious about this and decided they needed stars for there team weather they would go after Argentine union players?

 

[winnyason]

khatabbi is a big boy potential................he has.

 

[ali]

Just got back from a weekend in Barcelona, great city. Anyway, I was watching a Catalan TV station showing mostly music in the apartment, which fairly regularly showed commercials promoting the Catalan region. I was pleased to notice there were numerous shots of Les Catalans games thrown into these ads.