Catalans has been a smashing success in Super League. It has built a solid hard core of around 7,000 supporters, with a soft core of 1,000 - 1,500. It has built a player roster that enables it to compete at the upper tier of the competition. It has uncovered lots of French talent, from Thomas Bosc and Remi Casty among the now older players, to Morgan Escare, and Eloi Pelissier among the younger players. Most interesting it has developed a previously marginal mid-career semi-pro French Elite 1 player, Kevin Larroyer, into a top class Super League professional talent.

Toulouse has the potential to be even more powerful. This is because it has access to so much more than Catalans in terms of financial resources, and pools of playing talent and spectators. So long as it starts out with a good Australian coach, it can build a playing roster that will keep it off the bottom of the Super League table from the start, and within five years become a talent recruiting, high performance powerhouse. In other words, by 2020 it should be challenging Wigan, Warrington, Leeds, Catalans, etc. for the top spots on the Super League ladder. There is little doubt in my mind that Toulouse will become a Super League glamour team within a short space of time.

Won't removing us once do for you


I'm not against the idea of Toulouse coming in, if they are ready to do so.

Indeed, they're also older than Workington, Whitehaven, Sheffield, Doncaster, and of course London.

Somebody has drunk too much wine and eaten too much cheese

Or like Leeds did pre Caddick, or Bradford have just done or Hull KR or Huddersfield Barracudas or Hull Sharks (Lloyd days) Wigan after Maurice or Widnes pre Stobart or shall I go on....

...the problem with you and your ilk is your very short and selective memories.

Silly person

Yup I guessed that, should have been clearer

Of course they did.

Of course, that’s what Leeds do, pay their debts.

Ah yes, up pops Smokey. To prove a point without actually proving it!

What point would you like me to prove? I agreed with you, Leeds paid their debts.

No you didn't. You only proved you are the dullest poster on here. Something you do time and time again.

Its not the local board for local people over here sweetheart, unlike the wakefield board there are actual real life other people here and your little band of morons get pulled up when they are making things up.

Truth hurts eh? Nice little outburst.

May I suggest some time away from the computer? Try the real world for a bit.

You can suggest whatever you like, you can do it on the Wakefield board, as many people will read it on there as will care about it here.