Which is probably about the same attitude as that held by the clubs themselves, to be fair – and at least an element of why the international game, in England at least, is in the state that it is.

To be fair I can see his point with a trip already booked and paid for.
IMO these friendlies/4N games should have been finalised as soon as last years world cup finished at the latest!
Having said that a few other sports play club fixtures regardless and if you're down a couple of players due to Int. duty then tough..

good point and one ive made on here before.
other sports have these kind of fixtures planned, organised and confirmed long before the actual match day.
it isnt that hard, but the rugby league powers that be seem intent on making it look that way.

From looking at the RFU's website, they have just announced a game in June at Lod Trafford, and they have no fixtures in for this autumn yet.

Is the RFL really inept, or do they follow a similar process to other sports?

Go to the bring your own places on Kingsland Road and it's much cheaper than Paris

so it looks like the pre 4 nations warm up will be on the bbc?

If so, it would be nice to play against a full strength Ireland team.

I saw that aswell just wondering wot game the BBC are showing if its a warm up game it wont be played on a fri nite with thier schedule at BBC

good...i'll be able to go then..

Sod the "my club blah blah blah" suspects, playing a game in Paris is a tremendous idea.

Rugby League has already made recent inroads into the city with the Catalans-Nike-Champs-Elysées initiative and, as Mintball notes, Bernard Laporte has seemed far more positive towards RL than most of us treizistes feared when the former RU national coach was given the job of sports minister.

In spite of the World Cup, RL in France is in its best health for decades and I admire the ambition of the FFR13 in taking international matches onto a national platform. At the end of the day, a French RL match taking place in Perpignan would get as much national coverage as, say, an England netball international taking place in Carlisle. Pretty much zip outside of local media.

And contrary to what was implied earlier in the thread, Paris is certainly not a "hotbed" of RU. They have one large club bankrolled by an incredibly rich man who manage to put together big events a few times a season. And fair play to them. But people flock to RU matches in the Stade de France BECAUSE it's in Paris, and that's what gives glamour to those events. Anyone who's ever knocked about in any of the suburbs surrounding St Denis will know that it really is not RU territory.

that rich guy from stade francais is a bit of a league fan too btw

heard he follows swinton

Is there a confirmed Kick off time for this? Wanting to book cheapo train tickets