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

Check your council tax bill, it's just doubled due to the extension of the English Channel up the North East coast!

I should have written "on the other side of the English Channel from Brighton and Portsmouth."

I spend so little time in the United Kingdom, shuttling so often between Carcassonne, Paris, Frankfurt, Kiev, Odessa, Moscow, St Petersburg, Washington, New York, Singapore, Manila, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Hanoi, Hue, and Sydney that I have not yet gained familiarity with the precise geographical parameters of the rugby league playing English cities and towns.

Have you ever thought about writing books for children because you are good at fairytales lol

Have you ever thought about writing books for children because you are good at fairytales lol

I was just in Sydney for 19 days, among other things attending the wonderful NRL Grand Final. I am currently in Siem Reap, as the mods can confirm. I will be back in Bangkok on Friday night local time. But wherever I am I pay close attention to the progress of the Catalans Dragons and Toulouse Olympique.