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When have Halifax, Featherstone or any other current Championship club ever attracted even half that number? (Answer: never)

Moreover when has such a crowd been attracted to a rugby league match by visiting teams? (Answer: when Catalans and Warrington played in Barcelona).

Great crowd there this evening and they were treated to a good game. I would be interested to know how many were there from the Toulouse area and what they paid to get in.

Based on the history of French rugby league I am all for supporting Toulouse in their application, good luck to them.

Great game, great win in soaring temperatures and a very healthy crowd.

Noted and correction to my OP has been made.

This should seal the deal for Toulouse getting a SL licence.

I just hope that something can be done to save the woeful London Broncos. London vs Toulouse is, to the uninitiated sports fan, flipping through his TV guide, even more mouthwatering than Leeds vs Toulouse or Wigan vs Toulouse.

In any case, Toulouse in SL can be a winner on many criteria.

Sounds like it was a really good game as well. The future looks bright for a SL club in Toulouse.

Don't forget Toulouse v Dragons could become a decent little rivalry down in France. They could maybe take the game to the RU or soccer stadiums and make an event of it.

What a pity that Catalans lost (on goal kicking)! A Catalans win would have been the icing on the cake.

Ha Ha Ha. What a clown. ATEOTD the scoreboard doesn't lie.

Indeed it will become a great rivalry.

This crowd exceeded the projected future capacity of a renovated Stade des Minimes, the home ground of Toulouse Olympique, and was taken to the regular ground of the iconic rugby union club Stade Toulousain, which is Stade Ernest-Wallon. It was always the plan of Toulouse Olympique to move its big SL matches to Stade Ernest-Wallon.

However based on today's crowd (which only Wigan and Leeds at home could hope to match), more than half of Toulouse's home games would have to be moved. (i.e. vs Catalans, Leeds, Wigan, Warrington, St. Helens, Hull FC, Hull KR and Bradford). Only the SL clubs with a low traveling fan base (e.g. Huddersfield and whichever 2 other clubs remain in SL) would play at Stade des Minimes.

Stade des Minimes has one big advantage over the other stadia in that it is located right across the street from a metro station. Inebriated English fans can ride back to their Toulouse hotels in safety.

Didn't Cas take a record travelling support to Perpignan in some capacity this season? Why aren't they included in your list?

In another ten years I would hope that we would have at least a third, if not a fourth, French club in Super League.

In ten years, one hopes, Morgan Escare, Eloi Pelissier and Theo Fages will be considered the much admired veteran stars of the French national team.

Because I am guessing (and it is only a guess) that Castleford won't be in Super League from 2015 on.

Then again, I don't know which of the hypothesized Super League competitions that have been floated will turn out to be the one adopted in 2015. So Castleford could still be in the mix in 2015. Nobody knows for sure.

This is the best and most uplifting news on SL attendances since 17,873 turned up to see Paris St Germain play Sheffield Eagles in 1996.

Pfft. The days of Lindsay are over, didnt you know that Darth Hetherington runs the RFL these days?