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barnyia

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  1. Albi are the only real team that can hold carcassonnes powerful forwards, Carcassonne are a little more forward orientated this season and work around the ruck a lot more, the influence of teddy Sadauoi I reckon, if you keep gigot quiet especially if your wingers are ready for the 40/20s and cross field kicks Albi aren't very dangerous when gigot isn't having a good day, Lézignan beat them twice and both games he didn't do much, I love watching him play, especially his 20 mètre flat passes that beat 3 or 4 defenders on their own, I see a carcassonne win unless they have an off day like last year in the final v Limoux, but I know they've learnt a big lesson from that day( me too 😁)

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  2. Villefranche said they'll step up, ille didn't accept last year and got told they couldn't play in the play offs this year, that wasn't true, they got deducted 2 points because they only had 6 players turn up for tyr 9's comp, the funny thing is? The federation has completely forgotten about the 9s comp ! It's at the semi final stage with Villeneuve, st Gaudens, st Estève and Lézignan in the semis, they played the pool stages before the start of the season , Villeneuve and st Gaudens didn't make the elite play offs so they last played 4 weeks ago and are now on holiday, 

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  3. 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, 

  4. 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. 

  5. 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, 

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  6. 57 minutes ago, Gomersall said:

    Apart from the privilege of playing in Elite 1 what do the participants get for their €20,000?

    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

     

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  7. 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, 

     

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