The Phantom Horseman

Another fine try down the left hand side for Toulouse, they look really dangerous down that side in particular. Another missed conversion, but there's a gulf in class and speed between the two teams.

Think the last four times Jarrod Sammut has passed the ball it has led to a knock on. The summariser has said the Barrow coach will be slightly happier than the Toulouse coach at half time! I don't think so!

Barrow have lost the ball on the first play from a scrum on their last two possessions.

Toulouse try their third different kicker with the same lack of success. 4-16, but Toulouse miles the better team.

Normal service resumed as Toulouse score again.

Tempers getting frayed and Toulouse twice penalised when in possession. Barrow trying to rattle them and succeeding. Toulouse need to focus on playing rugby again, they've looked by far the better team.

Barrow in at the corner through Shaw, a much-needed try.

Josh Ralph absolutely bossing it, he looks a real quality player.

Three missed conversions the only downside for Toulouse so far. 0-12 after 16 minutes which includes about 5 minutes of stoppages.

A 3rd try for Toulouse, all down Barrow's right flank. Barrow have been woeful defensively down that side so far, Toulouse look very lively.

And Toulouse score again from 70m out on the first tackle of the next set. They just look to be playing the game at a different pace to Barrow so far, and Barrow look like the team that hasn't played a pre-season game.

Toulouse off to a flyer with Barrow seemingly dazzled by the trio of peroxide blonds amongst the Frenchmen. 0-4 after 3 minutes.

Our 21-man squad has been named. Junior Moors the most notable omission. Pickersgill doesn't make the 21 which seems to confirm what most of us had thought, that Aekins would be our starting full back in round 1. Joey unsurprisingly not named, presumably he's still in Aus with his mother's funeral only a couple of days ago. Fleming the only other player other than the three we know who are out injured who hasn't been included. Gale, Cooper, Lacans plus one other to miss out for me.

The first-ever British RL shirt sponsors, LinPac, are still Featherstone's main jersey sponsor albeit under their current name of KP.

Am I right in thinking that in our long and illustrious history there has never been a first-team player whose surname begins with Y? If so, that could change as early as Monday if Mackenzie Yei makes his debut.

I remember seeing it often enough to think that the smarter players/coaches had worked out that going deliberately offside at a scrum inside your own 20m was very much the smart thing to do. I think the rule change is targeted at that specific tactic.

A shameful effort! So... I reckon Lewis Young, as well as playing for Fev Lions early in his career, made some appearances for our reserve team which reached the grand final in 2013, when he would have been lining up with another promising youngster in Luke Cooper.

I might be wrong but as well as the obvious trio of Chisholm, Trout and Spence I think there's one other member of that Keighley squad who was on our books at one stage, though I think he only ever played for the reserves. One to test MLP's unrivalled knowledge perhaps (or anyone else's?).

Thank you Kiggy. It can be difficult getting updates over here on Toulouse so these are very much appreciated.

Keighley have already named their 21-man squad even though it's still 3 days to the game, they clearly can't wait to be playing Championship rugby again! A mixture of some very familiar names from SL and the Championship, and a few that are graduates from league 1.

RFL website seems to have had some omissions judged on Toulouse's own squad they have just released which has 21 names including Ralph and another they have just signed from their Elite 1 squad.

Ignore all that, the RFL website had some notable omissions. Josh Ralph and Reuben Rennie are in the 21-man squad just released by Toulouse, as is Dimitri Biscarro, another promoted from their Elite 1 squad.

I suppose it's feasible they could be waiting on the availability of some DR players from Catalans, but either way they do seem to be doing it tough at the moment.

I think this weekend will definitely be a great time to play them - if the RFL website is correct they have only been able to name an 18-man squad instead of 21 and of those 18 one (Greg Richards) was signed on Monday and two more were signed from their Elite 1 (reserve)team this week. Their star scrum half signing Josh Ralph appears to be missing along with two of their best threequarters, and they are genuinely struggling to field a team at the moment.

Wow. Just looked on the RFL match centre page for the Barrow v Toulouse 21-man game squads as neither team appear to have announced them yet on social media. Now, bear in mind that the RFl's website still is only able to cope with listing 19 names and they always miss the last two alphabetically off...but Barrow have 19 listed with Josh Wood and Greg Worthington the 2 presumably missing late-alphabet players who should be there. BUT...Toulouse have named only 18. And now we know why they have just added a couple of outside backs from their Elite 1 team, as the names missing from their squad are wing Latrell Schaumkel and centre Reuben Rennie, plus hooker Calum Gahan, and perhaps most significantly half back Josh Ralph, who carries a lot of their hopes this season. I don't know if they are all injured, or whether there are visa issues, and maybe they habitually only fly with 18 anyway, but they have always named 21-man squads in the past. So it seems that for the opening day of the season Toulouse can only name 18 players, even after drafting two in from their Elite 1 team this week.