There will be a lot of 30 year old Australian players rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of topping up their pension funds.

If that mattered, do you think this article would come about after a meeting with Richard Lewis? They clearly aren't entering the Championship next year.

Toulouse are more important than Paris to RL in France at this stage. Any talk of including Paris has to be AFTER Toulouse in my and most other people's opinions it would seem.

probably irrelevant Not wishing to come over all albert, but there's already more amateur RL activity in Paris/Ile de France than in say Wales, or Salford. They would have the best stadium in SL. The RU side is the richest in the world. Less than 10% of their *playing* budget would max out on our salary cap - they are not going to struggle to put together a competitive squad if it's a serious bid.

A full house 80k at the Stade de France, for a double header of Superleague/Top14? Simply cannot see the RFL turning it down in favour of Toulouse, Salford, Celtic, Widnes, Wakefield...

Of course, it all depends on how seriously Stade are taking it. If it's just going to be a case of you can use our name and stadium, then it's a non-starter. But if they do put significant resources in - and planning on winning SL?

First of all, wouldn't a team be a good start? Get them in the LER with the aim to get them in the Championship ala Toulouse, in the not too distant future, then take it from there.

Richard Lewis (owner of the Super League)



Never trust an on-line translation engine.

It would help if the LER was able to go full time and turn it into some kind of French Superleague.

Featuring Paris and maybe some other new teams.

Too right, Team full of aussies & kiwis if they get it off the ground....the stade francais oooonion side is full of merc..sorry foreign players

Also imagine what the playing kit would be like?....has anybody seen the above's over the last few years

It would provide an "interesting" challenge to the salary cap.

I think with the french rugby union sides spending riduculous amounts of money on foreign players overlooking the academy ranks, maybe the young french players will try thier hand at league, i doubt it but it could happen!

It's aaallll good publicity, especially for the game in France.
I wouldnt treat it as much more

So we can expect the ' Gay Paree weekend ' to be announced in 2011 when they decide all you SL fans are fed up of edinburgh

I agree, Toulouse are at a far more advanced stage, and also would provide a geographical 'derby' for Catalan.