This french team looks pretty strong.With the game been played in france and france having 1 or 2 warm up games before hand with this team would be a good contest.

1 cyril stacul -catalan
2 dimitri pelo-canberra
3 jp baile-catalan
4 d peyreoux- gold coast titans
5 v duport-catalan
6 d chisholm-wests tigers
7 t bosc-catalan
8 d ferriol - catalan
9 j rinaldi -london
10-r casty - catalan
11 g mounis- catalan
12 o elima- bulls
13 j baitieri-catalan

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14 e pelissier- catalan
15 j fakir - catalan
16 m simon- catalan
17 s raguin- catalan

Isn't Scott Dureau eligible for France next year?

Ferriol has retired from international RL and Rinaldi is getting on a bit but Greenshields is still available for selection - Bemba (ASC) has had a good season at prop and young Kevin Larroyer (TO13) is getting better with each game not to mention Moragn Escaré (UTC) who looks a very good FB prospect and not forgetting William Barthau at 7

gigot,barthau,touxagas,vaccarri,gossard all catalan as well

The three Australian based players are all reserve graders.

maybe so but how many of the exiles would br reserve grade in the nrl?

Pelo's played a couple of times this year I think.

But Peyroux has already played for Cook Islands, which should (I know it doesn't) make him ineligible.

he could play for france.but international rules eh!!

I assume Pelo / Peyroux can play for France then? They're both Aussies.

I thought the whole idea of putting Catalans into S.L was to give us a formidable opponent in the Northern hemisphere whilst increasing the profile of the game in France.

Instead we’re left with playing a team, with the odd exception, who would struggle to get a game in the NRL IMO.

*sigh* Pelo is French.

We dont need a warm up test for the England side, we need a competition for potential England players to prove themselves worthy of a jersey against other potential England players.

Pelo is from New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific Ocean.

Indeed, I also expect a full team to come through a single academy in a few years that is as good as that coming through over ten times as many academies from the much more established opposition.


Seriously? I really do wonder if the sheer impatience and pessimism is some sort of RL in-joke that I've never come across or something.

Pelo already has french international caps so where's the problem ?