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Next months Test at Avignon will be shown on free-to-air television via the L'Equipe 21 channel. They did some delayed coverage of the England v NZ Tests last year too.

"It involves matters much greater than drafting the new rules...the original and existing games have their own powerful appeal to their players and public and have the sentiments which history inspires"  - Harold 'Jersey' Flegg 1933

"Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart."  - Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959

Si tu( Remi Casty) devais envoyer un fax au Président Guasch? " Un grand bravo pour ce que vous avez fait,et merci de m 'avoir embarqué dans cette aventure"

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Excellent! Do we know what coverage this will have over here?

 

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L'Equipe appears to have a DailyMotion channel. Would it be streamed live on there, or would we have to use VPNs to access the stream on their website?

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Shame we're going to get destroyed.

Not if the French actually bother to turn up

Absolutely no reason why France could /should not be competing against England

If France wave the white flag then yes

Complete embarrassment

But

With a team

Like

Gigot

Yaha

Duport

Julian/Garcia

Robin /escare/???

Barthau

Casty

Pelissier

Bouquet

Larroyer

Garcia/Julian

Baitiari

Subs

Springer

Simon

Boudebza

Maria

Why would that team bot compete ????

Maybe be beat by 20 but that would be a very good result

Every English player wants to play for England

Not every French player wants to play for France

There in lays the biggest problem

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English players never go on about being paid to play for england,pulling on the jersey is enough..we are aus,nz or any pacific island..

 

No it's not. England players are always paid. They're professionnal and this is normal. Not being paid for doing your job is a shame and is why French players didn't turn up. Yaha, Baitieri, Springer and Pelissier are injured and some will require surgery after the season. 

A full strength France squad is decent but you never have a full strenght squad when you only have 18 pro players.

 

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English players never go on about being paid to play for england,pulling on the jersey is enough..we are aus,nz or any pacific island..

Anyway....what channel is the game on in the uk??

Lol! They never go on about being paid because they actually get paid!

Do you honestly believe it's because of their superior English character?!

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NZ only started to get to a position of regular competitiveness once they had around 50-odd pro players to draw from, as such France need to more or less double their numbers before they really start challenging England, especially as England is improving.

The continuation of the Academy side, creation of the Catalans Reserve side plus hopefully TO moving to the Championship should help add to the current pro numbers for France but there is still a long way to go.

Anyway back to the topic, positive news around the FTA coverage. Out of curiosity is the channel available nationally? Or is it regional?

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Woah woah woah...

My point was all you hear from down under is how much players get paid for playing for aus,nz or origin and it often being a deciding factor when the likes of semi or uate jack in fiji to play for australia or nsw...

Im sure england players get paid a decent amount..my point was we,northern hemisphere,europeans,understand what international sport is cos of our history...down under/pacific islands are light years behind...its all sod it,pay me the money and i'll be whatever australian,queenlander,kiwi,fijian...sod it its $35k a game..

Thing is money is no excuse anymore,nrl players aren't on the breadline anymore, akulia uate earns $500,000 a year ffs lol

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NZ only started to get to a position of regular competitiveness once they had around 50-odd pro players to draw from, as such France need to more or less double their numbers before they really start challenging England, especially as England is improving.

The continuation of the Academy side, creation of the Catalans Reserve side plus hopefully TO moving to the Championship should help add to the current pro numbers for France but there is still a long way to go.

Anyway back to the topic, positive news around the FTA coverage. Out of curiosity is the channel available nationally? Or is it regional?

 

No it goes out nationally. Three years back I'd had to get a new TV set as the new TNT system was introduced allowing direct access to 20 plus channels of which five are public and others commercial. L'Equipe of course part of the national sports paper/magazine i think. They show live local basketball matches and russian soccer matches. Probably not the same production quailty of say Canal plus and Bein Sports. Still its good to have this exposure.

 

The only time I reckon in the last decade that there was harmony between the Federation and th Dragons was in the first few years under Monie-Frayssinous. True it didn't help them much in WC 2008 Australia but back then Catalans still finding their feet. One thing positive with the new Fed set-up is that the Dragons-Tricolores should be singing from the same song sheet. Trio of Catalans in charge Khedimi-Cologni-Jorda hopfully will get everyone pulling together. Khedimi one of Guasch's right hand men and Jorda of course iconic in these parts as the coach of the last French side to beat GB at Headingley in 1990.

"It involves matters much greater than drafting the new rules...the original and existing games have their own powerful appeal to their players and public and have the sentiments which history inspires"  - Harold 'Jersey' Flegg 1933

"Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart."  - Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959

Si tu( Remi Casty) devais envoyer un fax au Président Guasch? " Un grand bravo pour ce que vous avez fait,et merci de m 'avoir embarqué dans cette aventure"

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Press conference this week at Stade Gilbert Brutus - Olivier Janzac and Thierry Dumaine complete the coaching line-up. The former is the unofficial coach of Champions Limoux and the latter coach of the Dragons U19 Academy side aiding Cologni and his no2 Renaud Guigue. Khedimi as Team manager aided by Jacques Jorda (right). A 23 man squad to be announced on Monday. Group to meet up twice in Perpignan 5/6 October and then 17-19 October. Jerome Guisset probably has his hands full at the moment taking over the newly designed U23s as well as his duties with the Dragons. 

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"It involves matters much greater than drafting the new rules...the original and existing games have their own powerful appeal to their players and public and have the sentiments which history inspires"  - Harold 'Jersey' Flegg 1933

"Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart."  - Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959

Si tu( Remi Casty) devais envoyer un fax au Président Guasch? " Un grand bravo pour ce que vous avez fait,et merci de m 'avoir embarqué dans cette aventure"

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Cologni interviewed in a local paper last year said it was important that the players in a national set-up should be pampered; it needs to be prestigious and really valued. Think of Team England under McNamara and their Loughborough/ FA base at Burton-on-Trent. Cologni would like to create something similar to what the XV have at Marcoussie based on Perpignan. He talked also central contracts by the Federation with an emphasis on the U23s. Need to get more professionals. The article also discussed how other sports in France organised things with reference to the national basketball set-up. At world level France are competitive even though the local game lacks sponsors and visibility. They have a vigorous U17s group and from there they they develop a junior team which plays in the third division and excempt from relegation. In the recent Olympics they could field a squad with more than half a dozen from the NBA. Back with the Federation all that they need are the means and a budget.

"It involves matters much greater than drafting the new rules...the original and existing games have their own powerful appeal to their players and public and have the sentiments which history inspires"  - Harold 'Jersey' Flegg 1933

"Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart."  - Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959

Si tu( Remi Casty) devais envoyer un fax au Président Guasch? " Un grand bravo pour ce que vous avez fait,et merci de m 'avoir embarqué dans cette aventure"

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Cologni's named his squad for this, including 12 Dragons:

Lucas Albert
Olivier Arnaud
William Barthau
Julian Bousquet
Guillaume Bonnet
Clément Boyer
Damien Cardace
Rémi Casty
Alrix Da Costa
Vincent Duport
Théo Fages
Ben Garcia
Tony Gigot
Mickael Goudemand
Maxime Herold
Benjamin Jullien
Kévin Larroyer
Gavin Marguerite
Romain Navarrete
Mathias Pala
Eloi Pelissier
Ugo Perez
Stan Robin
Mickael Rouch
Mickael Simon
Gadwin Springer

 

I'd guess we'll see something like: Gigot - Arnaud - Jullien? - Duport - Cardace - Albert - Fages - Bousquet - Pelissier - Casty - Larroyer - Garcia - Simon? with Springer, Navarette, Da Costa/Barthau and Boyer/Herold? on the bench but far from an expert...

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No Escaré so Gigot at fullback and not a single creative player at centre. Not sure this is the way to go. 

Albert is a bit young to play against England massive pack, Barthau has had a good season with London so why not? 

I'd have Perez and Simon at 11 and 12 with Garcia at 13, who is very strong in defense around the ruck. 

Navarette, Da Costa, Springer and Herold on the bench. 

Outsiders : Goudemand at 13 (SL player in the making but without SL experience it's a bet), Robin, Boyer (good youngster but again, without SL experience), Marguerite (a centre or wing, very young, good against C1 opposition, might burn himself against England though).

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Pleased to see backrower Goudemand from Avignon in there.Thought by now he would have been picked up by someone of note.Perez I think got a bit of class about him. Got the impression he did OK at Whitehaven too on loan for the past few months. Marguerite looks to have some spark about him in the backline. Goods he's involved

Wonder whether Cardace could do a Gigot and make a return to the top level. He's talented but needs to convince himself - and the desire too. 8 lads from Provence in the mix as well - encouraging. A young and inexperienced squad.

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"It involves matters much greater than drafting the new rules...the original and existing games have their own powerful appeal to their players and public and have the sentiments which history inspires"  - Harold 'Jersey' Flegg 1933

"Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart."  - Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959

Si tu( Remi Casty) devais envoyer un fax au Président Guasch? " Un grand bravo pour ce que vous avez fait,et merci de m 'avoir embarqué dans cette aventure"

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Press conference this week at Stade Gilbert Brutus - Olivier Janzac and Thierry Dumaine complete the coaching line-up. The former is the unofficial coach of Champions Limoux and the latter coach of the Dragons U19 Academy side aiding Cologni and his no2 Renaud Guigue. Khedimi as Team manager aided by Jacques Jorda (right). A 23 man squad to be announced on Monday. Group to meet up twice in Perpignan 5/6 October and then 17-19 October. Jerome Guisset probably has his hands full at the moment taking over the newly designed U23s as well as his duties with the Dragons. 

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I like the look of that squad, a lot of new blood and talented players who could be staples of the National team for 10+ years to come.

Mentioned in another thread but it's good to see a break up of the Catalans monopoly on the National team. By my count there should be roughly 30 French players in SL or full time Championship clubs next season, hopefully that can push out to 40-50+ in the next few years. The Catalans Academy will surely only help the situation.

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