They fancy to open a club in the north of France. Luc Dayan, a guy to watch, has a project for the french RL, the "super 13", to create a full professionnal championship in the next years.

Wait and see

Ellis cleared for the final

Bentley A picked up a suspension following last week's LER games so is not now available. Silly, Andrew. Teddy Sadaoui called up instead.

What a farce

So what have we learned then?

France hace some distance to go.

Precious little, methinks. It's reaffirmed the nation's standing in the world game - ahead of the likes of Wales but nowhere near the big three (or the big two, then England) who are able to field teams composed entirely of full-time professional athletes.
We are not going to compete with a pool of approximately 20 full-time pros to select from. We knew that before - the challenge is doing something about it.

The preditability of this particular series was such that the night before the final, I called it at 54-6. That ain't so very far off.