Did anyone see 'boots n all' last night? If you didn't they ran a 10 minute section all about Catalan celebrating it's 100,000th visiting fan during the recent Warrington game. As part of this they spoke briefly with 3 or 4 Warrington fans about how much money they had spent that day, in regards to their match ticket beer and food etc. The typical response was €100, €120 or one guy said €200. This is of course on top of their flights and hotels etc. So we could easily be looking at €300 to €400 per person to make the visit!!!!

Putting this together with them celebrating their 100,000th visitor it adds up to a whopping €30M to €40M Euros (GBP £25,000,000 to £35,000,000) of the Rugby league communities money being spent out there. So then Barry Mac (who I normally like) goes on to say 'what a wonderful greating the fans always get in the shops and bars in Perpignan, they have their shirts on behind the bars etc etc......' I bet they do, when we are pumping so much money into their local economy.

Bringing me on to my next point!! How many other better uses there are for the rugby league communities money. We all go on and on about supporting the youth coming through, better supporting British talent, local amateur teams with no funding, facilities for our national teams etc etc. Of course not forgetting good causes like the RL Benevolent fund, Steve Prescott Foundation, Adam Watene fund, etc etc.

In my humble opinion there are so many better uses of our hard earned money without taking this money out of our economy and out of the heartland RL community. Many such good uses as given above!

The next time we have an away game away from the M62 corridoor, think of the best way to use your money in support of the true RL community, our RL values and the future of the club you love.

Top post buddy. Never been to Catalan due to the shier expenses side to just 1 game.

100,000 British rugby fans helping the french economy when our own economy is on it's ar5e. How many French fans have come over here to watch the Catalan team

Sorry but having a French team in this competition does nothing for me

What a strange post. If the Steve Prescot Foundation or the Cas youth team agrees to take me to France I will part with £200, until then I would rather spend it on going to France.

Some fans go Friday,watch game Saturday and come back Sunday. I don't know about you but I don't call that a HOLIDAY.
But maybe you do

I call a weekend break a holiday yes.


And as for the basis of this thread: rugby league fans spend money in bars in rugby league heartland wow!

Ad just for the sake of the obviously bigoted and thick OP - Perpignan is part of "the true RL community, our RL values" (unlike, say, …) – and when I spend an overnight at a game, whether I put money into a chain hotel in Leeds or Perpignan makes no difference to the "the future of the club I love".

My thoughts are a bit broader and wider, and are in regards to the game as a whole. The next generation of British players coming through etc.

Having a team in france in no way effects this

Who the hell are you to call the OP thick? Have your say on the matter but why fire insults around?

Somebody who's read his post. It's a stupid post. The conclusion I draw is that …

The idea that spending money in a pub in Widnes is somehow supporting "the true RL community, our RL values and the club you love (ie Cas)" and spending money in a bar in Perpignan isn't, is stupid. It's a thick idea.

Each time a visiting fan decides not to travel to an away game in the UK, or throw a few quid in the collection buckets for our juniors because....

a) He/she spent 300 or 400 notes in Catalan/France last week and is now skint.
or
b) He/She is lives in Catalan and doesn't travel to away games.

......tell me how much of that revenue your club can then invest in training home grown talent at your club, your academy team or any of the other good causes that I mentioned in my original post?

His post clearly means more then that. Stop acting like a kid.