You still know nothing about this subject...



Your knowledge of French rugby league history would cover a very small pin's tip. The head is far too broad.

Ah the old "you're wrong because I say so". Has that ever impressed anyone older than 7?



No, they aren't. Lyon has no Elite club and never has been a Treiziste area.



No, they don't. Mille may have been a treiziste stronghold (which I did not deny) but it isn't now but any definition of "stronghold". Their Elite club collapsed.

Absolutely it's the case. Of course soccer does just fine with its' distribution of teams -- they're all over the country, not just in one relatively out of the way part of it plus a couple of outposts elsewhere. They have several in the south and Midlands too, where the national media can't ignore them they way can ignore RL since it's predominantly in the north.


True, they botched things totally when they were handed £87 million to create a big time, city-based Super League, but instead gave Sky the same old small-time one with London and Paris tacked on hoping they'd accept that. They screwed up again with the 2000 World Cup, and when one of the richest men in the country took on the flagship London club and they didn't know how to make that the strategic advantage it should have been. No wonder they scuttled back north tail-between-legs and held all Internationals in small stadiums in the heartlands.


That's exactly why the panel deciding on which sports events should be reseverd for broadcast TV said that RL "lacks national resonance" and therefore the Challenge Cup should be de-listed. Only serious expansion can change that.

Like Wrexham

You too are a moron. There seem to be plenty around here. Mods?

Lyon have won the Max Rousie Shield. (What is that I hear you ask...)

So have Mille.

Get a clue.

So winning a (very) minor trophy suddenly makes an area "heartlands"?

I really don't see how this in any way at all contradicts the statement that neither side has an elite club.

Ignore him Hog, he's a tool of the highest order

That thought had occured to me.

Gijou was a very abusive troll called Calixte who seems to have been banned from League Unlimited.

He made up lies all the time and called anyone who disagreed a rah rah troll.

He claims that Lyon and Mille's success from a very long time ago makes them heartland areas, maybe they once were but it doesn't make them one now. He gave me pages of abuse after every post on LU after I disagreed with his statement that Mille would get a SL side. They folded after half a season in the Elite and Lyon struggled along a few years before dropping down to Elite 2.

Let's just say he makes Dally look reasonable, he's about 10 times as bad, if not more.

I honestly never thought I'd say this but this site has gone completely down the drain, Dally has ruined it enough but if Calixte is on here too I guess totalrl is much more appealing

I looked up this shield, it is just the name of the trophy given to the winners of the French championship. Neither club have won the championship in over 50 years. He is obviously trying to be a dick. It's bleeding obvious that we all know that the French had a championship (and still do), playing silly buggers with the name of the trophy proves nothing.

welcome back from TRL mate.

i was getting worried about you after the way they treated you on that thread.

stick to here mate, much more fun.

mille got 60,000 or so in the streets welcoming back the victorious French test RL team.

lyon and mille are 2 of the largest cities in france after paris and toulose

with their RL tradition having Les Cats in peripgnan, then 3 big city teams sure would give it critical mass

i would then go to paris after those

but if Stade francaise want to fund a paris team id be prepared to move paris up before lyon and mille, but not toulose

the poster that made you look dumb knows quite a bit on french RL so when i saw you engaging him i knew how it would turn out

why not read books like Forbidden Game or perhaps one on "champagne rugby" and youll have a clue then.

ive read forbidden game myself. great book

You are talking about the past. If you went back far enough then Liverpool and Manchester were cities very much dominated by rugby but today they are anything but.

Neither Lyon nor Mille are able to run an Elite club let alone a Super League one.

mate they got that thread locked after your contribution and were very mean to you as well. just stick to debating us here rather than running off and trying to post stuff behind my back.

ill promise to be easier on you