The french dont play RL to prepare England to play other nations.

They have more important games to play this year than a hastily organised warm up game nobody watched.

What that has to do with Toulouse god only knows

You need to focus on finding the point before worrying your little head about picking them apart.

What? You want to try this one again? Is there something else you are saying here other than the pretty self-evident point that proper internationals are proper internationals?


Lets try and lay this out simply for you.

The point:
The french dont care about being our warm up game, they dont care about friendlies played in small stadiums with a low profile and as such dont send their best players and dont perform to their best. When the games are treated as a proper international then the french put out a better team, the game is closer and the attendances are higher.

Evidence:
A comparison between games which are friendlies played in small stadiums with a low profile and games which are proper internationals which shows not only a higher attendance but a closer result aswell.

Your counterpoint:
Yeah but you failed to mention those proper international games that you called proper internationals were proper internationals with something riding on the result. Stop leaving out details so you can have a stick to beat the RFL with.

Given the French have important games to play, youd expect them to consider yesterdays game as a warm up to those games, if not, why even bother?

It works both ways, but it does give us an insight to how poor French RL currently is, if they want respect, then they need to do a lot more to earn it

They did treat it as a warm up game.

Yes because that's what it was.....so why are you b*tching about it.

Erm.......For the reasons already put. Thats kind of how this works.

It was played at the wrong venue, Whitebank would have been more suitable, I doubt many others like myself will be paying to watch them again

So to answer the OP? , nope, and unlikely ever to