No, we're helping out France, by signing French SL players!

Flatcappers or Flat Clappers. Either way, this moniker is restricted to our friends from Featherstone Rovers.

Listen you stupid pseudo white flag surrender monkey, I don't care if Leigh, Leeds or the entire SL and Championship sides from England are all rammed with ANZACS......we were discussing Catalans, so stop attempting to deflect from them and debate the issue.

Catalans are the pinnacle of French Rugby League, the top team, the numero uno side...the bees knees and the Mutts nuts, yet they have to rely on average ANZACS year on year and are rooted to the foot of the table.

It's not like there wasn't any RL in the SW of France prior to Catalans joining SL.....there is quite a healthy semi-pro competition down there that sees good crowds for their finals footie, so there is little excuse for the Catalans Dragons to be over reliant on ANZAC pensioners, looking for a nice few years on sunny beaches with cheap plonk.......and if Toulouse go up, it will be exactly the same there too......because French RL isn't producing the talent in large enough numbers.

It matters not that Leeds, St Helens, Wigan etc are rammed with ANZAC Talent, nor that Toronto, should they go up will raid the NRL.......Catalans Dragons were admitted to SL to help the French game develop......they haven't, it hasn't and all we get now are rants from the owner about an anti-french bias

As it stands, I can see Catalan v Toronto in Toronto as the MPG.........and if the French go down I see the game in France being set back by dozens of years......

I always thought that was the case Sparky. Not sure why things have changed.

I think flatcappers and flat-earthers are being confused here.......it's just easier to say pit village, whippet owning or pigeon fanciers.....apparently Northern Monkeys isn't acceptable in some part of Yorkshire......

Its not deflecting from Catalans or a different issue. The fact is every Super League club has “ANZACS”
To suggest Catalans shouldn’t, and that they only sign French players because they are a French club is delusional.

No other club they’re competing with plays without overseas players, despite existing for 100+ years before Catalans came along.

Careful, we've still got some rope left!

Name me 1, yes 1 club in SL/Championship and League 1 who have all local, or all English players, no overseas players.
Your argument is as shallow as your usernames.

Isn’t that the point though? That Catalans often get singled out for criticism re overseas players yet only have comparable amounts of overseas to plenty of historic clubs.

Where I do criticise Catalans is the number of good French players they’ve let go.
Fages, Escare etc along with Thomas Bosc who they sidelined. They had the core of a good French spine to a team there but for some reason sacked it off.

Yea, that’s exactly the point I was making.

Are Toronto stretching the SC & Quota too far ?
If so & they get promoted what happens ?
A) slap on the wrist
B) slap on the wrist & small points deduction aka Wiggin & Fielden gate ?
C) Automatic demotion back to Championship *too embarrassing for RFL*

Looking at the current rosta + the inbound Lusick, the Quota looks to be creative at least.

Toronto stretches nothing in the pursuit of unilateral advantage. They are an expansion team on a new continent who are being given latitude for the good of the game.

BTW the name of the Australian import mentioned is Darcy Lussick, and he is a prop forward. His brother Joseph Lussick is a hooker for Manly.