Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE " We need Toulouse in Super League ASAP.'"
You constantly roll out this sound bite but back it up with very little. Please, in your own unique style, explain why a second side from the south of France, that delivers no VFM for our mainline sponsor, or our #1 income source, our UK broadaster is NEEDED in the ESL?
Toulouse have a hardcore of 1,250 supporters who are dwarfed in numbers by the support of arguably one of the top RU sides in Europe in their professional era. They would deliver nothing other than a derby game for Catalan, although how a 200km journey is hardly a "derby". Soccer is #1 in France, but Union is a giant in the south of France and catalonia........so what else will Toulouse bring to the SL table other than a side of below standard frenchmen bolstered by pensionable Aussies.
I get it that you're a fan, but you need to explain your use of the word NEED........because you desiring it does't make it a pre-requisite requirement to have a second French side in SL......especially one that loses to 2 other championship sides in the qualifiers.
I'd argue that SL needs stronger heartland sides before it needs any more expansion. 7,000 freebies in Toronto to a beet festival isn't going to interest anyone in terms of sponsorship and neither will 4,000 in Toulouse when the union lot are getting 17,000 and winning the European Cup....