It sounds good that we have 2 x French teams however....how many French players are there across both clubs? I bet they couldnt make a combined 17 of French players.
Toulouse had Mathieu Jussaume, Tony Gigot, Justin Sangare, Eloi Pelissier & Remy Casti. 3 of them are ex Catalan. So 5 x French players and one of them has now retired.
Catalan had Fouad Yaha, Julian Busquet, Benjamin Garcia, Artur Morgue & Mickael Goudemand, again 5 French players.
So there will 9 French players with Casty retiring. Yes there will be reserves who are French however Toulouse are going to go out and recruit other nationalities to make them stronger possibly knocking the number of French players lower. The positive was the crowd that was there. Hopefully it will drum up interest and it was good to hear the joined up thinking of Toulouse RL & RU however if you are a quality player you are going to down the RU route especially with the French RU salary cap plus the standing of the international game in comparison.
Im not sure its as positive as it seems
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