Catalans dreadful start to the season was down to the fact they were playing without half backs.

With Tomkins, Gigot, Langi and Drinkwater or Smith, that won’t be the case next year.

Reasonable points.

I think that in 2019 Samuel Tomkins will be playing no. 6, with Antoine Gigot at no. 1.

As for Samisoni Langi I don't know what contract he is on, but if he is till on contract for 2019 he could be shifted to centre if David Mead was to leave (which I think is unlikely). Otherwise Langi will be a reserve no 6

As for Joshua Drinkwater, he is quite adequate at no 7, with the bonus of being a good goal kicker. I don't see the point of letting him go and replacing him with Matthew Smith.

I believe that Catalans, despite buying Matthew Smith, will be in the hunt for silverware in 2019. There is no point in dismissing them now that they have won the Challenge Cup for the first time. They are a force to be reckoned with.

They’d have been better sticking with Drinkwater

Ignoring the war years, the attendance this year for a Challenge Cup final was the lowest for over 80 years. Warrington played Hull 2 years ago and the attendance was 50% higher.

The people of France, which is an important country located on the other side of the English Channel from Hull. France is a country where the people drink water as well as wine. It is a nation of great culture.

But not great at Geography

You should not always listen to what people tell you john-claude, the Netherlands are on the other side of the channel from Hull, living in Chorley seems to be hampering your education some what, they also eat snails and frogs legs as well probably washed down with wine and water, which I'm sure you've sampled there on your stop overs between Chorley and Kiev.

Our types are bright enough to realise that the 2007 attendance was massively boosted by it being the first final back at the newly rebuilt Wembley.

how dozy can you get

Dozy enough to think the North Sea is the English Channel!