Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:13 am  

If it was a SL team who sent out a "weakened" team against a championship 1 side and got turned over we would be saying "served them right" so.................................. "served them right"

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:25 am  

France win - What's the point in them playing Ireland their light years ahead.
Ireland win - Catalans are a disgrace.
Win win for rlfans.

Well done Ireland and Scotland for this weekends results. The only disappointing thing for me is the number of quality players making themselves unavailable for this comp but more than happy to play in a World Cup.

It looks as though there will a new entrant to the four nations in 2016 as this years winner qualifies. (Is there no European cup planned for 2015? That is also disappointing if it is the case)

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:43 am  

Does anyone have an actual team sheet for the French for the game? I'm struggling to find one

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:55 am  

M Hadden (Antrim), C Dunne (Athboy), Mikey Russell (Barnhall), S Hesketh (Batley), W Kelly (Belfast Met Scholars), H Peacock (Carcassonne), J Murphy (Dewsbury), L Ambler, C Casey, B Johnston (all Halifax), E Cosgrove (Keighley), R Mulhern (Leeds), B Beswick (capt), M Platt (both Leigh), J Toole (North Sydney), C Mulkeen (Oxford), S McDonnell (St Helens), G O'Keeffe (Treaty City), W Hope (unattached), B Hargreaves (Wigan St Patricks) Good old Gutterfax always one not to let facts get in his way at least 11 of the squad have played in the championship this year, Matty Hadden has played in c1 along with the other lad from oxford. everyone knows who Shannon McDonnel is he along with Robbie Mulhern has been in SL environment all year. In fact this report quote Mark aston as saying the Irish only included 2 domestic players in the 13. https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/rug ... --spt.html The fact remains France should probably have won, but there is so many reasons why the players Jean cited missed out this time and so well done to Ireland who have undoubtably livened up this Euro comp

M Hadden (Antrim), C Dunne (Athboy), Mikey Russell (Barnhall), S Hesketh (Batley), W Kelly (Belfast Met Scholars), H Peacock (Carcassonne), J Murphy (Dewsbury), L Ambler, C Casey, B Johnston (all Halifax), E Cosgrove (Keighley), R Mulhern (Leeds), B Beswick (capt), M Platt (both Leigh), J Toole (North Sydney), C Mulkeen (Oxford), S McDonnell (St Helens), G O'Keeffe (Treaty City), W Hope (unattached), B Hargreaves (Wigan St Patricks) Good old Gutterfax always one not to let facts get in his way at least 11 of the squad have played in the championship this year, Matty Hadden has played in c1 along with the other lad from oxford. everyone knows who Shannon McDonnel is he along with Robbie Mulhern has been in SL environment all year. In fact this report quote Mark aston as saying the Irish only included 2 domestic players in the 13. https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/rug ... --spt.html The fact remains France should probably have won, but there is so many reasons why the players Jean cited missed out this time and so well done to Ireland who have undoubtably livened up this Euro comp

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:56 am  

roofaldo2 wrote:

Does anyone have an actual team sheet for the French for the game? I'm struggling to find one

only a squad list sorry

France (from): J Baitieri (capt), J Bousquet, D Cardace, B Garcia, A Maria, E Pelissier (all Catalan Dragons), K Larroyer (Hull KR), J Fakir (Lezignan), R Marginet, F Vaccari (Palau), T Fages (Salford), J-P Baile, W Barthau, T Margalet, M Pala, M Simon (St Esteve), T Maurel, A Wood (Toulouse).

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:36 am  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

You both conveniently fail to point out that the French team did not include

Remi Casty
Olivier Elima
Gregory Mounis
Vincent Duport
Morgan Escare

Quite a bit of firepower missing, eh?

Elima's retired from internationals iirc.

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:12 pm  

Didn't England lose a friends a few years back against some random Aussie amateur team like Wagga Wagga u21s or something.

Says a lot for English rugby league

Regards

King James

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 2:13 pm  

marvwoodburn wrote:

only a squad list sorry

France (from): J Baitieri (capt), J Bousquet, D Cardace, B Garcia, A Maria, E Pelissier (all Catalan Dragons), K Larroyer (Hull KR), J Fakir (Lezignan), R Marginet, F Vaccari (Palau), T Fages (Salford), J-P Baile, W Barthau, T Margalet, M Pala, M Simon (St Esteve), T Maurel, A Wood (Toulouse).

Looks like the French domestic comp has fallen even further behind the championship

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:29 pm  

j.c wrote:

Looks like the French domestic comp has fallen even further behind the championship

I always thought the French Elite was a little behind the Championship, that said my only comparison was Challenge cup games against English teams. E.g Lezignan beat Rochdale, Workington and Whitehaven off the top of my head but Pia and Carcassone got thumped by Fev and Sheffield respectively.

Again, not exactly scientific but the results suggested the top 3/4 of the elite could survive in the championship but would get touched up by the bigger names

Re: catalans in superleague has really brought on the french : Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:51 pm  

The problem isn't Catalans being in SL (that can only be good for French RL) the problem is the terrible organisation of international RL.

There is (or appears to be) no long term plan or strategy whatsoever, there doesn't even appear to be a short term plan.

These games should have been planned and arranged at least a year in advance. Then they could've been advertised within the RL community at least.

But then even the 4 Nations is ridiculous with schedules not announced long enough in advance and no-one even knows which years it's going to be on or not. There isn't even a 4 Nations website FFS.

This isn't just an anti-RFL post either, it's game-wide and the Aussies have a lot to be blamed for too.

If the RL authorities started taking it more seriously then maybe clubs and players would take it more seriously and finally fans might too.