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I'm done supporting this club. Seems like I wouldn't be able to regarding they have no TV coverage anymore.
Likewise. I’m done making excuses up and defending this shower of a club. It’s Toulouse all the way for me from now on.
So if and when Toulouse make SL do you really think they will stack their team with Frenchmen? Catalans are signing who they think will keep them up, same as plenty of other SL clubs. Whether that happens is a different matter. Catalans remit is not to prop up the French national team. Their remit is to be competitive in SL and that won't happen with a French heavy roster whether you like it or not. Maybe Saints should do their bit for the England team and bin Coote, Taia, Fages, etc.
That's not what we say we're against. We want to see a clear path from junior to senior team, just like you see with every top line Super League club. We all get the method they use but it's when you bring in useless players just to kick out a French player (even if they are just as useless).
I thought the whole point of allowing Catalan into super league was to boost French RL??
It’s even worse than that marra. We don’t even know if the French players are useless because they never hardly get to touch the ball in order for us to find out!!!
If they want Catalans to boost French RL then they need to make them exempt from relegation but that isn’t the case. It’s easier for Saints to promote English kids as they are one of the perennial clubs at the top of SL. They still feel the need to fill their quota spots though just to ensure they stay there. Are there no decent English full backs at Saints?
They, rightly or wrongly, feel an established British or Antipodean is less of a gamble than a French player. We’ve seen just recently how erratic the French national team is. Whether that’s chicken or egg is another argument.
Yes. Jack welsby. Kids a star in the making but only 18.
And what dreams or fantasies do you have of Toulouse should they reach the promised land?
To have a squad and starting 17 that is majority French otherwise what’s the point of either Toulouse or Catalan competing in super league?
What’s the point of any team being in SL? I understand what you think should be happening and to a certain degree I’m with you but what’s the point of the French team/s playing predominantly French who don’t have the heart for a battle, especially a relegation one? If Toulouse reach SL and play a majority French team for the whole season they will go straight back to the Championship. We’ve seen time and time again that the French go missing in action more often than not. The only way they can develop better players IMO is to get more French players in SL but not necessarily at Catalans or Toulouse. Fages would have gone backwards or be playing union if he’d stayed in France. Fear of relegation will always lead the French towards English or Antipodean players. Understandably so.
I would argue the point is to expand the commercial base of RL through viewers, commercial opportunities expanded player base etc.
That doesn’t excuse the dragons pulling their academy team from the English league.
