Toulouse is most definitely a Rugby City. The Union side attracts 21k as an average to games in the top 14 and 16k to European Games whilst their soccer team only averages 15k to games.

Unfortunately for you, Toulouse is not a Rugby League city. Their RL side only attracted 2,289 to their home games in 2019, a figure that dips below 2k if you take the inflated gate announced for Toronto, where their Union neighbours were invited to attend for a paltry 5 euros entry. This is a figure smaller than London Broncos average in 2019 and yet The Broncos have more than one Union and one Soccer side to compete with.

I have to say, your sweeping comment regarding London is quite insulting, but you French are often renowned for your ignorance of things you have little understanding of. Virgin are a multi Billion Pound entity who invested in London Rugby League. I believe they qualify as both a corporate and one that has its HQ in London. I believe the clubs primary sponsor, Bartercard also qualifies as a corporate, albeit an Australian one, but you being French may not understand this, as I don't believe that France is one of the 8 countries that the company operates in.

Toulouse Olympique have a main shirt sponsor of an insurance brokerage with fewer than 100 employees and there CEO is an ex-Union Player. Their star player is a cook islander born in Australia, whilst their French players are not good enough for SL, a fact highlighted by them playing for Toulouse and not Catalans. London, on the other hand, earned promotion to SL and were only relegated on the last day of the regular season in 2019, whilst Toulouse lost in the play-offs at home, in front of 1,068 spectators...a disappointing crowd given that their Union neighbours played the day before, whilst their Soccer side were away that day, so there was little else in way of competition to this "game of the season".

Still. You being French does somewhat excuse your ignorance of the facts. Is there not a French version of Wikipedia for you to check before coming across as such?

Bucks Fizz must have had a preminition about Walt

1. THREAD DRIFTED BY THE TROLL AGAIN

2. No.
I work in the realms of fact and statistics.
You are strangely absent from the thread regarding how to assist French RL BTW. You did post 2 references to Wakefield that were stranglely removed and replaced with a singular reference to a "pit village", but you've made no comment on how to help?
It's almost like you're a troll????

Instead, you infect this thread about a local side full of local players and make unfounded and unsupported claims at to what would happen if Toulouse don't bottle it again this year.

To reiterate. 1,100.....less a few dozen, bothered to attend the final play-off game of 2019 in France and fewer than 2,000 bothered with the french domestic final.
I understand with you being French that some things might get lost in translation, but surely, given the precise nature of many of your posts, you have some grasp of the fact that French RL is bu99ered and Toulouse in an English Comp is not the answer...especially when their playmaker is a Cook Island International, born an Australian and still not good enough for the NSW cup!

If you are the expert on all things French RL, please feel free to post in the correct thread and not the one about the progress made in London over the last decade whilst Catalans have gone backwards.

Back on thread.
London's 2nd string, featuring 18 London based players lost recently to Coventry, whilst the First Team Squad with 15 London trained plaers that day fell to Hull FC, by 4 scores to one.
33 Londoners across the 2 squads with the academy as well...that's more cockneys that the French have French players in their international Squad

I am not dreaming.

The requirement of any new team from abroad into Superleague was never attendances.

It was and remains develop SL players and bring in local TV money, That's exactly what Superleague asked of Toulouse when they re-entered the game here with a plan for SL.

It was what was expected of Toronto and it was what Perez promised on behalf of TWP as well.

Catalans attendances are irrelevent, they were supposed to bring in French TV money and nurture the best French players to create a competetive French International side.

All three clubs are sadly - yes sadly - complete and utter failures who cannot be allowed to replace clubs in Superleague who do develop quality pro-players and do get a TV deal.

This is all very simple stuff to understand if people have the goodwill and mental capacity to understand and accept.

All three clubs are total failures failures on the criteria for success - New players and TV money - and would destroy Superleague if they were all allowed in in 2022..........