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

somewhere between 6pm - 8pm at a guess

Not to mention the age it took to announce the kick off times for Murrayfield Magic, then had the cheek to moan at the fans for not making a commitment to the event.

ffs some people are never happy,get a grip..


the france v england test date & city was comfirmed 5 months before the scheduled kick off....is the time of the kick off really going to matter?


we know when murryfield magic is,we know when the mid season test is,we know when the 4nations is....if you support your club/nation you'll be there reguardless of the kick off time...



see you in paris on the 13th june

Er... yes it is fairly important. Whether I'm there or not, I'd still like to see the game and know what time it's on and plan accordingly. Other people may also want to plan their trips for it rather than have to leave a full day bare just in case the rugby starts at a different time.
The media might mention it more if they know when it is!
People might sponsor it if they know it's on at a certain time.

We know when abouts these things are. But we don't know when. It's not too hard to ask for them to say "at x o'clock" is it? Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean it shouldn't bother others. It's slow and poor organisation.

don't get me wrong i;d love to know what time the game is kicking off...but it does'nt take a genius to figure out it'll be sometime betweem 6-8pm given that we have'nt had a sky televised international played at any other time other than between 6-8pm since when 1997 ?............

I reckon the daytime temperature might influence the decision too!

People don't even know if this is on Sky or not though. It's not been announced.

And we played Australia in the Ashes in 2001 on a Saturday afternoon IIRC.

isn't this going to be the BBC international? maybe a quick email to the beeb sports dept. could sort it out

True, think it was a Sunday afternoon but that was only after the tour was hastily rescheduled after Sept 11th, you know, when the likes of Jason Ryles didn't want to come as some of the major UK landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower might be targetted.

It will be a toss-up between Paris and Bridgend for me.

sky have been advertising the fact that france v england is going to be on sky....and the 4 nations,