Not bad off the top of my head really is it, and it would take Toulouse how long to produce a list half of that ??? Thanks

Also regarding putting crookes in, re read the question you asked me

They will need to produce them, which was kind of my earlier point. There are some players at Les Catalans who could move across, there are some in the French league who can make the step up, the rest Toulouse would need to produce, but they wont be able to do that outside of SL.

And i would say you are wrong, Les Catalans have found probably more than 17 decent french players.

Not wriggling whatsoever, in the future could you please form the question you wish to ask correctly. Thanks

In the meantime you can keep yourself happy with your nice little dream of a SL that consists of ten teams with each team being from a different county with a maximum of 3 teams per country

In the context of your original statement it was phrased absolutely correctly, but you needed to pad out your list so you did. Its not important

Can they get 8k+ crowds, can they pay full salary cap and still be financially sustainable, can they put a competitive team out without weakening les cats? If they can achieve those three things I'd love to see Toulouse in SL.

I think people are forgetting that if Bradford drop out of SL, there will be a full team of SL level players looking for a new club. If they drop out, the team that replaces them will be mostly Bradford players anyway. The only defining factors left would be stadia, financial standing and crowds which can only point to Halifax. Expanding RL is not what should be top of the list at this juncture. After all that has happened financial stability should.

I still think the safest option will be to keep Bradford with a clean slate and more stringent financial audits.

Toulouse is about 100miles from Perpignan, there would be next to no impact. They would be in competition for players, but im not sure that’s a bad thing.
Toulouse is a big city with a market of 1.2m to go at, and apparently, or so I have been told, they have good links with local businesses and sponsorship wouldn’t be one of their problems.

As for could the immediately get 8k, and spend the SC straight away, who could possibly know until they did it.

obviously Toulouse in 2015 will be a french/english/antipodean mix - french players are coming through, don't write them off just yet

Toulouse in SL next season to replace the Bulls is unrealistic so Fax will step up but i'm sure Bulls will still be in SL so the idea of TO or Fax in SL is irrevevant anyway

If the Bulls are still in SL next year then that's it for me. I will no longer support RL until the numpties at Red Hall are out.

Can you see the irony in your post and your username ?

yeah, it's always the fault of the RFL !

as a neutral RL fan ...why punish the faithful Bulls fans ?

I for one hope the Bulls survive in SL with new investors - they are still the best bet by far to play in SL as no other club is worthy of the position at this time - I hope they manage the play-offs and give their long suffering fans something to cheer about, good luck Bulls

just be thankful it's not HKR who are in the merde...

Stamp their authority on the game and kick out one of the top supported clubs in the league which struggles for support as a whole, and bring in another team that has no proven track record of running a club in SL?

I understand that people are unhappy, but anyone who thinks that Bradford will just go back to how they were after this is kidding themselves. Bradford will be a very much trimmed club come next season whether they stay in SL or not.

Valid points, however, long suffering?

In the great scheme of things it’s only two minutes since they were winning G.F’s & C.C’s.

They’re just going off like their long suffering, they don’t know the meaning of the word .