The Virtual Terrace • The road ahead for France
Steph Curry wrote:
4 pages. You all fell for it.
When will you all get that Donnyman is employed by the mods to drive traffic to a dying website?
Jean/Silent/Steph whoever you are, I don't need "employing" I'm happy to volunteer to stimulate RL discussion amongst RL fans for nothing. Anyway.......
With at least 10 English clubs in SL and at least six English wannabee clubs outside Superleague, I think it is a good idea that going forward they get some priority. The SKY deal is theirs and Les Catalans have made themselves into a big club but I don't think they have done much for French Rugby League.......
1. They didn't make an effort to underpin a French test team once they got an SL place to do so.
2. They progressively made their first team more anglo-aussie than French
3. They started an academy but quickly abandoned that
4. They pretty much blew things with the Folau farce
I sympathise in terms of their difficulty to deliver what Richard Lewis wanted of them. It's tough enough to develop a club let alone develop a whole national game.
But now we have Toulouse those two clubs can get together and sort out a rivalry, via derby games, sort out a French TV deal of some magnitude, and concentrate on having a significant number of French players in both sides. They should between them develop a player pathway for French talent.
The best place for that would be the Championship, Providing a decent level of Rugby at which the best say 30+ French lads would handle well. In short this "One French club" being made to field Anglo/Aussies to compete in SL thus destroying their ability to develop French lads, could operate with a second French club at a lower level to actually deliver French growth?.
The irony is Jean/Steph/Siilent that if it is a dying website you sir and your ilk are killing it
Genuine replies only please?
Statistics: Posted by Donnyman — Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:36 pm — Replies 40 — Views 601