Yup.
I get this feeling we won't be catching up anytime soon.

I am going to squeeze in Dragons/Roosters followed by Storm/Warriors this morning inbetween reading more Eric Hobsbawm.

Les Cats have just signed Drinkwater from the Magpies. It seems pretty easy to sign players from that team, you know, should we want to.

Also helps if you have quota/non fed spaces, enough salary cap and a more relaxed attitude to employing overseas players than the UK have

There are tons of overseas players in SL, it might just be that Perpignan is a bit warmer and more sophisticated than Northern England...?

Surely not! What can be more sophisticated than flat caps, whippets and clogs

....including minutes played, which gives a much better meaning to the stats.

And a flagrant "don't give a monkey's" attitude to developing local players

what is the amateur RL set up in Catalonia, I heve no idea what potential pool they have...

No idea but there doesn't seem to be huge numbers of French players getting regular game time.

... they do have an U19 academy side.

UK border agency didn't seem to have any problem letting in a known coke user so he could play for St.Helens. Given what happened with Michael Crocker I was genuinely shocked Barba even got into the country.

Beat the COHA last month in Hull.

I may well be wrong but the Crocker incident was a criminal matter and the Barba one wasn't

That's the screwed up law, you can be under the influence of drugs, but only lrosecuted for posession, a y logical lawmaker would surmise thag, in order to me under the influence you mst, in most bases (unless you are spkied), have been in posession.