28/30 is the number for a SL squad isn't it?
If they wanted, they could have a full French side every week.
Thats right but if you read the post properly he said TEAM and the Catalans TEAM has up to 8 Australians in it in any given week. He did not say the Catalans squad has 14 imports which is what you seem to think, it seems your doing that Knee-jerk, we couldnt possibly criticize anything remotly French or Catalans Dragons thing you do an awful lot.
SL is longer for a start than the NRL, plus you can add CC games, pre season games and Internationals.
In saying the SL is longer than the NRL i see what your saying, my mistake, I thought you were talking about the year round rugby thing that a lot of the catalans side had to endure whent they first entered SL from the LER.
on a pedantic note Les Catalans only played 1 pre-season game and one more international than Aus so lets discount those.
Not really, look how NZ go when they lose a few key players, same with England.
with all due respect usually the Kiws and England arent playing Scotland or Fiji, France were piss poor and against England in both recent mid seaon tests and coulndt beat the worst Kiwi side for years.
Hey, I said they need another team and I also have mentioned they need to get French guys in playing half, full back, hooker and some big fast outside backs.
You did say they needed another team, not that it would have made a sh*te of difference, as Toulouse would have signed Australians in the positions that France have struggled to fill, until Catalans fill the key positions with French players France wont win jot.
The team under performed, but some people are going way overboard about it, they are building for the future and it started a few years ago, give it some time.
exactly what I have been saying for the last couple of years, dont rush another team in SL, dont rush the French into the tri-nations, lets not get carried away with the thrid place finish, I'm gald your finally coming round.
This should be a wake up call to all folowers of French RL for the future that here is massive amounts of work to do, not in setting up new pro clubs, but right at the bottom of the pyramind
What they don't need right now is people rubbishing them and Colin Love and others forgetting about them.
yeah lets pat them on the back and say well done lads, its ok some more Austalians will be eligible next year, as for forgetting about them they shoulndt even have been considered for the tri nations, never mind forgetting them.
Patience is needed, the game we follow is Rugby League, not Soccer.
Patinece is what i have been advocating since the notion of another French club was mentioned, not sure what relevance soccer has to this conversation, however