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  1. He is someone who gave a lot of hope to the French treizistes. We hoped to move towards more professionalization, take advantage of its relationships to develop partnerships, communication, etc. If we can sum up his action: in the positive, he helped to renew the dialogue between the FFR13 and the international bodies. But the results in other areas are very meager, even disappointing. The World Cup, a professional championship made up of major cities, TV contracts, relations with the Catalans Dragons etc. His orientations and his intentions were not compatible with the situation of rugby league in France.
  2. The French treizistes we live in the myth of Murdoch and a savior who would come with a wave of a magic wand to allow us to find the glorious past and to compare ourselves again with the other rugby. Very regularly we have unrealistic or wacky projects (Dayan Project, National Technical Center, Sharks, Toulon etc.) which are supposed to allow us to develop. But in fact, we don't have any serious studies on our sport, we don't even know what our strengths and weaknesses are ! we don't have a serious and professional approach to the development of our sport, we are content either to copy the ideas of other nations, or to launch projects in a totally empirical way. I thought that was going to change with Lacoste, which was going to bring us methods from the professional world and big finance: market studies, catchment areas, statistics, etc. In the end, in addition to being sorcerer's apprentices, they have a total ignorance of the functioning of our sport and its basis.
  3. it is not the fault of the French politicians but the economic model which was totally unrealistic. The treizist cities cannot afford to pay €200,000. how do you expect us to find 40 small towns with no treizist culture that will pay?
  4. More informations about the situation : https://www.lindependant.fr/2023/05/12/coupe-du-monde-de-rugby-a-xiii-inquietudes-autour-de-france-2025-11192042.php#lhkxhsoxglsedqrmpqw
  5. It was in 2013, 17500 in Avignon for France - New Zealand. To return to the subject, I think that in England you do not have a fair vision of the situation of rugby league in France. If we do not succeed in organizing this World Cup, it will be a total failure for the federation, since all the development projects were conditioned by this RLWC which was to be the driving force behind the revival of rugby league in France. In France, there is an expression: "we put all our eggs in one basket". Let's not forget that the national rugby league center project that was launched has been discreetly buried, that there is no development project for the national championship, that the base of our pyramid is inexorably shrinking, etc., etc. If you want to help us, you English and international authorities of our sport, you must help us to develop our championship so that it becomes fully professional. the Dragons and Toulouse will not help our discipline to grow on our territory.
  6. recently a city (Bergerac) announced that it will host the World Cup. Is this proof of dynamism or just a desperate attempt to unblock the situation? I do not have the answer. Avignon, which has been one of the biggest crowds in recent years (match France - NZ), refused to pay the entry ticket which was €200,000.
  7. too ambitious a project. we do not have the human and financial means to manage 3 competitions. the federal team is at best utopian at worst sellers of dreams as we say in France (promise things that we can not do)
  8. according to a player on the field, the 6 takes a punch because he caught his balls
  9. Lezignan vs Saint Gaudens full match
  10. The images have gone around the English media beyond this behavior, it is true outrageous, I would like to understand why it came out of its hinges ? It also seems that S.Crismanovich the blue coach raised a problem of able-bodied players in the England team and his post-match interview was cut short on the BBC. I wonder if there is a connection between these two elements ? Are we just sore losers or is there a real problem! I also saw a video where the referee gives a try while the other two referees are against this decision. https://twitter.com/andrewfoster101/sta ... k4vG8iI_dg Weird all that!
  11. I hope he will come up with something and it will work. the previous president also had a crazy project (dayan project). my feeling is that we must first develop the practice in oil stain from the areas where it is played. it is necessary to target cities with potential and where there is little competition and if possible to develop clubs of city communities. The perfect example would be to develop Salon de Provence and call this team Metropole Provence (it would then represent the metropolis of Marseille). I am also in favor of the development of a French team in New Caledonia on the model of the PNG Hunters or the Kaiviti Silktails of Fiji
  12. I have already explained it several times here but the French sports and political system is completely different from the English system. the current Elite1 championship as a semi-amateur competition depends on the support of the mayors. if we want to change the system either we will have to have clubs representing the community of municipalities / agglomeration or find 1 very rich patron in each city. if this constraint is carried out, remains the problem of the players. French rugby league does not have enough young players without forgetting that to create teams in cities where there is nothing like Bordeaux or Toulon, we will also have to find volunteers! wanting to create a professionnal championship from scratch is a negation of French sporting history and for me a utopian challenge. a year or two ago you published promotional newspaper articles praising the famous Montpellier Sharks, I invite you instead to come and see how a real club works in France
  13. Corey Norman will join James Maloney https://www.fcl13.fr/corey-norman-a-signe/
  14. For now the president is talking a lot but no one has heard or seen anything concrete. I understand that the World Cup project is important but there is a lack of communication with the clubs. Regarding Pia, we must not forget that politically despite its proximity to Perpignan, this city is not part of the Perpignan agglomeration. At the time, they were thus able to take advantage of specific funding from the inter-municipality which has many activity areas on its territory. I think we should be delighted with Pia's return to Elite. This team will always have more resources than Baho or Palau to allow players like Jullien to continue playing rugby league in Elite1. Regarding the crowds, I think there were good crowds in Limoux and Lezignan, in Carcassonne it seemed meager and difficult to get an idea in Albi but they are on a good dynamic. An average of 1000 spectators seems correct to me for this first day.
  15. serbia ahead of france? this ranking is a joke
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