Catalans already have a reserve team in the Elite that are if anything better than Toulouse, so makes no sense to ship them 100 miles away to to Toulouse, just to bail out a struggling club who are playing in the wrong league. I've said it before but Carcassonne, Lezignan and Limoux are all easily better than Toulouse and all within the Aude region so if anywhere could sustain a Championship team it is there and not Toulouse

I agree with bowes, these aude clubs are better but like all french clubs they only have 17 good players , the squad depth in france is a problem.

On some french forums they have hinted at one day lezignan,carcassonne and limoux merging to contest the division one in england. The problem is that these clubs hate each other and to truly get everyone to agree would be something.

The team would be very good and would be up there on the table, in fact it would sort of be a rep side from the aude region. They would need to be to really test the stronger english clubs.

The idea is good, the reality is that it might need to happen to save rugby league in this historicaly strong league area.