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French Past Rugby League Results/Tours

madunit

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Hi guys,

I am half of the team behind the Rugby League website www.rugbyleagueproject.org

For many years I have dug around anywhere and everywhere for many many hours to find what little match details I could about Past French rugby league games, particularly pre 1970's

We try to list full team line-ups, pointscorers, venues etc for every single game ever played.

I have tried to contact people via the French official website, but all the email addresses on that site just bounce back.

I was wondering if anyone had any informations about French tours to England mostly, as well as World Cup tours, and their games in the old European Championship (against England, Wales and occasionally Other Nationalities)

Thanks guys.

You can check out our French RL collection thus far at http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/teams/France/summary.html

Click on the links on the left to see further info.
 

ParraEelsNRL

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Hi guys,

I am half of the team behind the Rugby League website www.rugbyleagueproject.org

For many years I have dug around anywhere and everywhere for many many hours to find what little match details I could about Past French rugby league games, particularly pre 1970's

We try to list full team line-ups, pointscorers, venues etc for every single game ever played.

I have tried to contact people via the French official website, but all the email addresses on that site just bounce back.

I was wondering if anyone had any informations about French tours to England mostly, as well as World Cup tours, and their games in the old European Championship (against England, Wales and occasionally Other Nationalities)

Thanks guys.

You can check out our French RL collection thus far at http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/teams/France/summary.html

Click on the links on the left to see further info.

I'll see what I can find out mate, the old format of the FFR13 had all the crowds, players, scorers and stuff, hopefully someone kept it.

If you want historical stuff about French Rugby League, start here.

http://www.rugbyforumxiii.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=29&sid=9b7bc25839fef896453e97d80851c956
 

madunit

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thanks I'll check that out.

I need to complete details on 57 games since 1936 (not including tour games)

24 are from the European Championship between 1946 and 1956

Also missing a European Cup game from 1936.

Also need info for their 1999, 2003 and 2004 Mediterranean Cup campaigns - total of another 8 games (all competing teams would be better)

Aside from that, the remaining 24 games are either one off matches against Wales or England/Great Britain/Papua New Guinea, and then tour games (which we haven't started on too much yet, want to get the rest sorted out first)

I'll put together a list for this thread soon of what I require.
 

madunit

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LineBall

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There is a poster on the Totalrl forum by the name of Audois - who lives in France and regularly gives quality updates of the goings on over there of both catalans and the local leagues. He may be able to point you in the right direction as far as contacts and sources go.
 

madunit

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cheers.

Does he speak English? sadly my french is limited to sweet FA
 

Bluebags1908

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madunit, if you go through every monthy magazine for Open Rugby/Rugby League World for the last 15 years or so you will find this is an excellent source of very detailed match information for all sorts of internationals ranging from the well known to the obscure. This includes team lineups, referees, venue names, dates, crowds, etc.

Every France game on your attached list from the 1999 Mediterranean Cup onwards I guarantee will be there in full detail.

There's also several France vs Russia games you may have missed. For example, this Russia RL wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_national_rugby_league_team has USSR vs France in 1991 which was the first internatioal ever played by a 'russian' team and the only one ever played as the USSR before the break up of the old Soviet union. In 1992 the 'Russians' played as Commonwealth Of Independent States vs France and South Africa (as they did in the Olympics that year) and then from 1993 as Russia and Moldova split in separate entitles.
 

LineBall

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cheers.

Does he speak English? sadly my french is limited to sweet FA

Yes he posts in English and his English is excellent ( in fact I think he is an Englishman living in France, but don't quote me on that ). He seems to know personally people who administor the local league in France and also seems to be closely involved with what is going on with Catalans as well.
 

madunit

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Awesome, I'll drop him a PM and see what we can nut out.

Thanks mate.
 

madunit

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Cheers mate. Hopefully we can at least get the european cup complete. That will make us the only resource with all those match details, something we pride ourselves on. We are also the first and/or only resource to have full details of all city v country games and wales games.

As we speak we are also working hard to complete our in depth match details for all interstate games pre-origin as well as all tour games played by all nations
 

yakstorm

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Just another obscure one to throw in 1995 - After the World Cup:
France 72 defeated Canada 32 - Montreal

Other matches that year for France:
1995 World Cup: Wales 28 defeated France 6 @ Ninian Park, Cardiff (9th October)
1995 World Cup: Western Samoa 56 defeated France 10 @ Ninian Park, Cardiff (12th October)

A good site to look at (it's now dead) is the old 'Rugby League Vault' site. You can resurrect it with web.archive.org

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/

It pretty much died back in the early 2000's, but yeah has a lot about French tour's to PNG, Australia & NZ ie. here has all 30 games in the 1964 tour - http://web.archive.org/web/20041013090847/http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/sum/int1964.htm
 

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Just another obscure one to throw in 1995 - After the World Cup:
France 72 defeated Canada 32 - Montreal

Other matches that year for France:
1995 World Cup: Wales 28 defeated France 6 @ Ninian Park, Cardiff (9th October)
1995 World Cup: Western Samoa 56 defeated France 10 @ Ninian Park, Cardiff (12th October)

A good site to look at (it's now dead) is the old 'Rugby League Vault' site. You can resurrect it with web.archive.org

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/

It pretty much died back in the early 2000's, but yeah has a lot about French tour's to PNG, Australia & NZ ie. here has all 30 games in the 1964 tour - http://web.archive.org/web/20041013090847/http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/sum/int1964.htm

wow, that old site is loaded. Fantastic that there is a archive thing for the web to keep it there.
 

madunit

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I can't open those links (might have something to do with the internet at work)

Will try tonight.
 

sanjunien

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I can't open those links (might have something to do with the internet at work)

Will try tonight.

hi again

have managed to acquire a book which may be of use - can you list the deatils you require and maybe I can find your info - it's a big packed with past french RL info

best wishs

Peter
 

madunit

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hi again

have managed to acquire a book which may be of use - can you list the deatils you require and maybe I can find your info - it's a big packed with past french RL info

best wishs

Peter
Hi Peter,

I have been working with our colleague in England on these French games.

We have now got all European Championship games completed on the site. These are the remaining games we have left to complete:

1954 - France 31-0 USA - Missing Scorers for France and the USA team for the game.
1960 - France 12-37 Australia (World Cup Tour game) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
1970 - France 4-7 Australia (World Cup Tour game) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
1977 - PNG 37-6 France - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
1999 - France 80-8 Morocco (Mediterranean Cup 1999) - Missing teams for both sides
1999 - France 10-14 Italy (Mediterranean Cup 1999) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
1999 - France 38-24 Lebanon (Mediterranean Cup 1999) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2001 - PNG 16-27 France - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2001 - PNG 34-24 France - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2003 - France 72-0 Morocco (Mediterranean Cup 2003) - Missing teams for both sides
2003 - France 120-0 Serbia (Mediterranean Cup 2003) - Missing teams for both sides
2004 - France 46-6 Morocco (Mediterranen Cup 2004) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2004 - France 18-4 Serbia (Mediterranen Cup 2004) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2004 - Lebanon 42-14 France (Mediterranen Cup 2004) - Missing teams for both sides
2006 - France 28-6 Samoa (Federation Shield 2006) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2006 - France 10-48 Tonga (Federation Shield 2006) - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2007 - France 46-16 Scotland - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2007 - France 38-26 PNG - Missing teams and scorers for both sides
2007 - France 22-16 PNG - Missing teams and scorers for both sides

Any help would be fantastic
 

madunit

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After much work, research and finding people to help, the above list has now been reduced to this:

1954 - France 31-0 USA - Missing Scorers for France and the USA team for the game.
1977 - PNG 37-6 France - Missing PNG team only (I have the French team now) missing scorers for both sides
2003 - France 72-0 Morocco (Mediterranean Cup 2003) - Missing Morocco team.
 

madunit

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As an update, all French Test and International matches are now completed.

We are now working on tour games.

Feel free to check it all out!
 

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1977 - PNG 37-6 France - Missing PNG team only (I have the French team now) missing scorers for both sides


1977 KUMULS

1. SUKOPE IKO-FULLBACK
2. PAUL KOMBINARE-RIGHT WING
3. GARIA KORA-OUTSIDE CENTRE
4. JOE TOMEROP-INSIDE CENTRE
5. PETER PAIS-LEFT WING
6. DIKANA BOGE-5/8
7. DAVID PUmerkinAP-HALF BACK
8. JOHN WAGAMBIE-LOCK CAPTAIN
9. JACK META-SECOND ROW
10. TARA GAU-SECOND ROW
11. PAUL TORE-PROP
12. LINUS GENI-HOOKER
13. BOB GREATHEAD-PROP


14. JOE GANDI
15. STEVEN MALUM
16. OPENI GENO
17. KAIVA KAKO
18. ALLAN RERO
19. VAI KARAVA
20. STAINER SAPU
21. ASI WINNIE
22. DAVID TONGE

Coach : Duncan Yates

See link below; There is even a picture of the PNG team for that match but no mention of scorers.

http://vkpeek.wordpress.com/category/png-kumuls/
 

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