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21 or 22 October in France it says.

France need to play games to stay in the top 10,

France play Wales in October I've read in the French paper today.

It'll be just elite 1 players.

Get me a souvenir t-shirt, I'll send you the money

Good luck

Yes , the inside of the castle shops and restaurants will be open during summer Perpignan is great in summer if you like beach bars/clubs

I think they're using it as a test to see if people will come to watch championship rugby in Carcassonne before pushing to enter the UK league, I know the mairie are keen to get RL fans over to carcassonne and increase tourism.

We need to wait for the yearly meeting and see what financial state the game is in after Mr Lacoste, Mr Palanque got the game out of debt but upset a lot of people doing it. let's see what the news is in September,

Lasa tabu is at Whitehaven, Yes the lad at hull is strong runner.

There's springer, cozza and Lacans at featherstone, jouffret and larroyer at Halifax. The odd loan signing from the Catalans but that's all the players I can think of. Quite a few French players are keen to play in the UK but visas are a massive problem now.

As I've already stated, there's around 14 u17s teams in the whole of France, probably the same in U15s and u19s

Things are getting worse over here, a few lower division teams are pulling out due to lack of numbers, Avignon still don't have an under 19s team, they're trying to work with Carpentras, (who managed to get a very good team but by merging with three other clubs including a team from Lyon) St Gaudens are trying but don't have an U19s elite team, A lot of players are retiring from elite 1 and alot of the younger players are not good enough yet, (not playing for almost two seasons in the youth teams because of COVID is now taking hold) Yes there's a new team emerging in nice, a few of the elite teams are signing ex union players but playing numbers are still dropping, the number of injuries in the u17s this season was unbelievable, their season was stop start all year due to lack of teams (3 regional poules of 4 or 5 meant games where really spread out over the season). The federation are trying but the game is getting to the pont where no matter what you do it's going to really struggle. The Catalan affect is fine in Perpignan but France is a big country, would a successful handball team in Birmingham excite the Cumbrian people and get them start playing or follow handball, it would excite the handball community/players but that's all. Would TV companies give lots of money to start showing handball if Leeds had a great handball team playing in the French leagues?

They're planning a game just before Christmas, elite 1 players v the elite 1 overseas players, good idea, but a coaches nightmare and the date of the last weekend before Christmas is a bit badly thought out I think.

Yes, for his playing licence he's French,

Yes that's it, they can only play against what's put in front of them The 19s did quite well against the academy

Lézignan have a club shop on their site. I'm not sure if they deliver to England or not. They sell last season's shirt, older shirt's, hats etc https://www.neo-logik.fr/75-fc-lezignan-corbieres

The season kicks off the 23rd September with a 9s comp with the 9s final played in January, Talk of an elite 1 v the best foreign players just before Christmas (coaches nightmare ) Pia are recruiting well, Albi should have almost the same team, limoux have lost a couple of players to retirement but will still be strong. Carcassonne will be the favourites, Lézignan will have a young team but will be compétitive. St Gaudens will be a tough team to beat like last season, Avignon have recruited a very good full back who played at Carcassonne a couple of years ago. Villeneuve will have a good young team with strong foreign players, xiii Catalan are going to get some experienced players back to help bring the youngsters through, toulouse will be young but have quality players. It will be a younger championship this year with a lot of clubs focusing on young french players with strong foreigners, it will be interesting and can only be good for the future of french RL.

My lad did his shoulder so out for the second test, 24 hour bus ride to play 10 minutes, he's gutted but hopefully France will get a second win

No stream it's 12 french time, 11 English time

Today at Victoria park Warrington, The French team arrived on Thursday by bus then went straight to the St Helens game, Touching moment yesterday at the shirt presentation as Konrad hurrell gave a speech and Laurent fraysinous presented his son with his match shirt. Allez les bleus

You can buy their shirt if they ever set a team up, There was a team around 25 years ago but it didn't last long.

Andorra rugby league will be next, they sell made up teams shirts too. And copy official french teams shirts and sell them. But no money goes to the club's.

I really hope they're not joining franchise rugby league

I put forward Montpellier sharks for this comp, they have a online shop, massive partners, a nice playing strip, but no players, They're perfect for this league and will easily make the virtual on line playoffs,