how would Toulouse getting beaten by 60 points be beneficial to french RL ?

Maybe you underestimate them in a one off game? We have seen championship clubs run SL clubs close or better them in the CC, maybe Toulouse can do the same? Would give the club and players a big stage to show themselves on and may motivate others to join them and make them stronger for eventual inclusion into SL.

the annual pre season friendly was an attractive fixture though even that was scrapped by the Catalans last season as they found playing SL opposition more beneficial - the outcome was always one-sided but popular with the TO13 fans with 3000 crowds turning out - it will be interesting to see if ex TO13 coach Robinson reinstates the fixture

players from all the LER clubs are always watched closely by the Catalan scouts and ex Toulouse players to be given the chance recently at Perpignan include Vincent Duport and Antoni Maria and latterly Kevin Larroyer who looks an excellent prospect in the second row

What do you care what happens, surely by your theories the world is going to end in December anyway! You took a phrase out of context and then try and make out that I'm disrespecting the CC, which you think is a waste of space?! Xanex anyone?

Oh the world will end, just not this December

Your opinions of the ' scrap heap ' leagues show your lack of knowledge of of them, but not to worry you are not the only one , enjoy your season

I'm proud as punch that my crappy little club that has found its level playing in the scrap heap league can encourage 29 pages of debate.

Thank god we don't have an illustrious history to besmirch'

Bradford it would seem www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/ru ... -1-4856718 If they are committed to the club and the sport as a whole then fair enough But it will be interesting to see what happens next time

Bradford it would seem www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/ru ... -1-4856718 If they are committed to the club and the sport as a whole then fair enough But it will be interesting to see what happens next time

Perhaps they may charge the correct price for a season ticket next season and not go boobs up eh

Be interesting to see the bulls fans flocking in and paying full wack

Come and invest in our sport!

its run professionally by upstanding and trustworthy individuals that only have the good of the game at heart.

give Rugby League your support of cash now!

Hell, Stobart even sponsored it for free! you can pay for the privilege!

Rugby League - the family sport - governed by a rule book that not even Einstein himself could have understood!

For me, with this news the sport has died.

LOL

Nah, it died quite a while ago to be fair...this is just another nail in the coffin. It is just a cosy club where the current incumbents can decide and dictate who they want to join and on what basis, without any reference to the rest of RL. At the very least, could they not have gone through the motions of a mini-franchise bid to at least give a thin veener of being above board? On second thoughts, that would be a waste of money for the hapless Championship clubs who were conned into applying.

Do the people at the RFL have no shame at all?

I think it's a proud moment for the game. It's great how clubs stick together like a family to help out a troubled club. Salford, Castleford and London must be breathing a huge sigh of relief knowing that their future is insured by their fellow league members. I am over the moon and i must confess, teary eyed.

Does the Bulls news mean that all SL clubs are now bomb proof, if so they may as well pull up the drawbridge and then as leasst everyone knows where they stand

Well despite years of trying the pundits on 5live still refer to League as a minority sport. They are right and the lack of a major sponsor kind of backs that up. The upper echelons need refreshing, its as simple as that. As for Championship 1 next season....that will prove a costly pointless exercise which may just remove the likes of rochdale and oldham from our game forever.