Superb effort, especially considering a Toulouse team wasn't even playing. How many fans would turn up at Leeds & Wigan (too hotbeds of RL) to watch a completely different team play?

France is a massively untapped area with huge potential. Lets hope we get some clever people to release that potential.

Whatever the crowd was it was still a great turnout would be intrested to know how many neutrals went to the game.

The french tv network has seen the potential if the offer on the table if toulouse get a spot in 2015 is rumoured to be believe

This is what the scoreboard said at Cas at half time:

maybe Toulouse only included the pre-sale match tickets stated at 12 thousand, not including locals or rovers fans who bought match tickets on the night au.eurosport.com/rugby-league/dr ... tory.shtml

maybe Toulouse only included the pre-sale match tickets stated at 12 thousand, not including locals or rovers fans who bought match tickets on the night au.eurosport.com/rugby-league/dr ... tory.shtml

Still not been fixed since we were there in May. We had 70 odd in the first half but also lost in the end.

Toulouse is the 4th biggest city in France.

Toulouse is one of the few areas of France that has a prosperous economy.

Toulouse is the only place in France where rugby union is supportive of, not trying to undermine, the development of a professional rugby league club.

Toulouse in Super League will in the short term greatly increase the number of youth playing rugby league in France, and in the medium to long term will greatly improve the playing standards of the French national team.

Toulouse in Super League will greatly increase public awareness of, and hence the corporate sponsorship of, rugby league in France.

Toulouse in Super League, alongside Catalans Dragons, will increase the value of a French TV contract for rugby league.

The decision about whether to admit Toulouse into Super League is a no-brainer for Nigel Wood and the RFL ....

...oh, hang on...

But what will it do for the benefit of the other Super League clubs?

Zip.

If French TV want to invest in something how about Toulouse and Catalan become the pioneers of a fully full-time professional French competition that French TV and sponsors can buy into.

That would truly create the next generation and improve the competition from France. And is a better proposal than inserting them into a predominantly North England competition where they would offer no notable benefit financially to a club that would bring much more support income and less in terms of costs for the return fixture.

I love that whenever a RL match in an expansion area gets a good attendance, it's because they 'gave away tickets'. You people are pitiful.

Good idea. Then we can keep Super League for real RL towns like Keighley and Featherstone.

You are right. Dynamic urban centres like Keighley and Featherstone, with their massive and growing populations of affluent young consumers, and with their important and innovative high tech businesses, are household names in the corporate and media world, and in the minds of general public, in Britain and across Europe.

'we'?

That turned out well didn't it?



One off attendances are no indication of future potential figures, having said that personally I think Toulouse could work in SL