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No idea why, no they don't need so many, they do tests and trials to get into the 19s at the Catalans, the rest of the u19s teams just have a walk up policy and anyone can come and play, so you can have a french 19s international training with a player who's never played before,

They should maybe try to take the best players, coach them all week and the players non selected go back to their original club at the weekend. But that would improve the quality of players but would probably cost a lot of money on accommodation etc to get all the best players staying in Perpignan all week.

And the 40 aren't all the best players in the 19s category ,It's annoying especially when the rest of the division have played at least one game with less than 17 players!

Rostang Avignon, Jammes limoux, Aubry, Carcassonne, martin Lézignan, should definitely be in the team, the Catalan team steam rolled everyone but have 40 players all first and second years but most didn't play any elite 1, lots of the Toulouse 19s played elite 1 until the serious part of the season and dropped to the 19s for the bigger games. I reckon it'll be a good mix, Guillermo is a shoe in from the Catalans, but probably the only one playing elite 1 at UTC in the list,

There's still at a squad of 30, that will be cut down to 21 I think, with quite a few that play elite every week, even in a super league squad with Guillermo, Jammes, rostang, garrigues, I'd say at least 1/2 of the 30 play regularly in elite 1,

Toulouse have lots of players playing first grade that drop back for the cup and play offs, Villeneuve 19s may create a surprise

https://viaoccitanie.tv/ The link to the channel, hopefully it'll work in the UK, 2pm kick off in England, 3pm France

Lambert Belmas goes well. Some of the HM are out of position and out of form. Some deserve the honourable mention.

The money goes to the federation to plan and govern the game There is no prize money in french rl, you play all year to win a piece of wood or a cup,

Referees paid and the privilege to play in elite 1. Then you still have to pay fines for yellow and red cards, fines if supporters don't behave, fines for not having a doctor on site, fines for not having the right security, etc etc

The fee for elite 2 is 5000 I think, plus players of elite 1 level need paying more,

It's 20000 per team so yes there's a fee, plus a fee for your u19s team of 1 or 2 thousand, don't forget there's 0 prize money in France for any division

Live on via occitanie and sport en France with the Toulouse game just afterwards on via occitanie,( all Toulouse home games are on via occitanie now)

Hope so. Really would love to see Lézignan get the win

Yes it's worrying, when you see the Catalans have 40 players in the u19s, Lézignan played with 13 players this weekend, limoux 14 players, Villeneuve, Carcassonne, Albi and pia have all played at least one game with just 13 players on the team sheet (u19s) st Gaudens 19s play 9s and Avignon 19s forfeited 2 games this season, Toulouse elite team turned up with 16 players as they dropped their u19s first teamers down to the juniors, Worrying times, I know the numbers in u17s is slightly higher than last year, the federation used to let 3 u20 players on the team sheet of the u19s but that's been stopped this year,