Imagine all you want , they won't make it to SL for 5 years at least and then ' if ' they get there they'll get 7/8 K averages

That is ridiculous. They have already beaten the top Championship side Leigh in the Challenge Cup, and they played Wakefield close for most of the game played at Wakefield. I expect that next year in their quest to win the Middle 8s, they will buy a couple of fiercesome forwards that will make them stronger than the weakest Super League club. Toulouse will be promoted to Super League possibly at the end of 2017, but certainly by the end of 2018. Toulouse is a very serious sporting enterprise, while some of the Super League clubs are not.

The sports mad people of Toulouse --- a city bigger than Leeds --- have been thirsting for an entertainment machine like Toulouse Olympique for years. Once their hometown club locks horns with the English "big boys," the sporting public will come out in droves to support it. There is no reason to think that for the big games Toulouse Olympique won't get at least as many attendees as Leeds Rhinos do, and probably more.

Why are Leigh fans so worried about Toulouse?

Any mention of them and they're all over it like a rash, E.g. Budgiezilla, Starbug.

They know that a small club from a small town a stones throw from three big SL clubs isn't what SL needs, and Toulouse are a much better prospect for the sport.

So 2 Leigh supporters then?

SL also needs clubs with ambition, playing in good stadia with decent attendances.
Leigh tick all those boxes.

It isn't just all about developing games out of the heartlands you know.

Bad news for your lot then

Like I said let them grow in there own terms and if they don't fold again like the last time they were in the championship with sub 500 crowds good ,should be good watching them play Leeds and Huddersfield next season

Was gunna say this is championship level.... somebody beat me to it. Which by the way, Cas got over 8k vs Hull KR at home when we was in the Championship.

That's a long way short of the 2nd tier attandance record, 12,424 Hull v New Hunslet, May 1979. We averaged not far shy of 7,000 for all home fixtures (with no games against HKR) in 78/79 and considering you had the likes of Swinton, Whitehaven, Barrow, Workington, Blackpool Borough, Bramley, Doncaster etc it was a fantastic achievement.
Still there have been times when Hull FC had a hard core of less than a thousand coming through the doors in an early 70s match.

Leigh Centurions v Bradford Bulls
15/02/2015
Attendance 7449

Not to shabby for a little town Championship Club.

Edited for accuracy.

& anyway, what have Widnes got to do with it

Whoa there , it's called opinions , I do expect and actually hope Toulouse do get to SL , but feel our ' French ' contributor is spouting his usual rubbish

A massive step up from where they now are , and having seen the interest in Toulouse for RL , it could take a while , all IMO

Yes but they didn't even have telly in Hull back then