How can we help French RL?

Quote: Donnyman "Thanks very much for your polite and considered viewpoints Wrencat.

For the avoidance of doubt I would say that once 2021 is over any entry to Superleague and indeed any continuation of any "guest" club in Superleague will be dependant on the Superleague clubs saying they are OK with this. Saying OK to Catalans Toulouse and Toronto as guests takes three places in SL away from actual member clubs like Newcastle, Leigh Bradford, Widnes and Featherstone Rovers.

Once again Catalans were allowed in so they could develop French pro players for the international side and they aren't doing this they are going backwards, they even closed their academy. Toulouse have no player development system nor do Toronto.

On what basis do you think full members of the game here who underpin an English TV deal and develop players through their Foundation/academy/reserves set ups can EVER be pushed aside for guest clubs from abroad that don't do anything for the player pool or the TV deal??

My question was not "strange", but your idea that non TV contract or Player producing guest clubs should ever be preferred to player producing, TV deal producing member clubs certainly is "strange" can you explain this please??'"

You are still making stuff up.

Who knows what will happen beyond 2021, I certainly dont.
Despite me posting that ALL clubs in SL should develop their own players, you are questioning why I have said that they shouldn't ?

You keep banging on about Catalan not doing "enough" to develop players and not having "enough" of their own players in their squad.
Again, I suggested that there should be a number put into the criteria for them competing. However, they aren't too different to some SL clubs (not having too many club trained payers).
You also keep banging on about Catalan not producing enough players for the national side, last time I looked they didn't do too badly.
However, apart form 1 club being expected to provide the national squad, which is just crazy, they would of course be disadvantaged if they effectively had to play X number of additional games, in an already testing season - this is one of the main reasons why there probably should be an additional 1 or 2 French clubs in SL - in ADDITION to the current SL sides.

Of course there has to be a TV deal which has some balance to ALL competing sides, although it does seem that Toronto are struggling in this respect, which adds further fuel to the anti expansion argument.

As for there being a "limit" of 3 overseas clubs in a league of 12. I've been saying for a long time that the league should expand to accommodate these clubs and NOT have a situation where the current sides are merely replaced with "plastic" clubs.