sometimes ive heard/seen the banter be a bit over the line but 99% of fans are big enough not to end up fighting in lumps which again speaks volumes

During a break in the matches i ventured out for a pint and came across a couple of fans having an improv game of rugby league, Hull Fc, Hull KR, Leeds, Harlequins and a few other teams fans all involved in it and more watching on. You just wouldnt get that in Football.

The people i met (even the cas fans ) on the most part were sound. Apart from "angry" warrington fan and "moaning" Bradfud fan, but then again in their own way they added to the hilarity of the weekend.

I had to have a laugh at the fact the Catalan fans who don't have English as a first language had learnt a song the rest of us could understand.

Surprisingly, "We hate Rhinos" didn't sound half as bad coming from them.

Caught a bus back with them back into town and they were amazing, broken english but were funny as hell, weeee ate rhhinuuuuuss! and aaaaa worrry worry, worry worry worry woory warr-aye-ing-tonne. class fans them catalans.

Oh and not forgeting " Gooooood byyyyyyyeee my friend"

Had a great weekend with the family, good banter with other species, nice food, got to watch hours of back to back SL rugby and got my fizzog in both League rags… bonus

Weren't you in the Irish Bar in Perpignan the other year, when the 'turn' was knocking out Beatles songs complete with faux scouse accent only to not speak a word of English afterwards ?

Them and Edinburgh plod were trying to spend most of the weekend trying to work out with faction of the Christian faith each respective team was from ...

[i"Hey Shuggie, ewes see those Warrington fans ? They're dead-set Greek orthadox I tell ye !"

"Divvnae talk pish Finlay, yon Wakefield fans, they're Methodist .... I will tell ye this !"[/i

You've just lost all credibility in your argument, right there.

So you go into a cafe and tell them that you don't want any of their products but could they bring you a cup of hot water, their cup, their cup that they've bought with their own money, their cup that they'll have to pay someone to wash afterwards, and you want them to fill it with hot water that they've had to pay for and they've had to pay for the electricity to heat it, and you want a person to bring it to you free so that you don't have to contribute to their wages either.

And you wonder why they want to charge you for it ?

Do you often go into restaurants with your own food and ask them to bring you a plate and some cutlery ?

Great weekend. Ate, drank and was merry, plus watched lots of rugby (some of it quite good). Only downside - the sun in Scotland doesn't actually seem to give off much/any heat...fecking frozen by game 3 on each day...loved the whole thing.

I agree with you that the average attendance is not bad considering its 200 miles away but that is not my point. My understanding is that the average per match was down about 2000 (15000 for all 7 matches compared with normal SL round) therefore this loss of revenue has to be equated with the promotional benefits of attracting 6000 locals to the event. My other point is that the majority of the total income for the weekend will have gone out of our game.

I fully agree with you that we should have given away 20,000 tickets to the Scots including all Scottish RU clubs. The same mistake was made in South Wales over the last 2 years where there was a more defined target with Celtic Crusaders entry into SL

But like I said its a good weekend away.