Eddie

Imagine if English rugby league did that, we’d have two teams, Leeds and Wigan.

It looked superb on tv, not one for the seat counters.

The season is looking wide open now, very entertaining.

Inspector Gadget

If I’m proven wrong I’ll be as delighted as anyone

Where did you hear that? If it’s true then shame on SL, all clubs should receive equitable funding.

Of course Hull KR were bigger than Oldham when they ‘started their journey’ , and so were Leigh. Neither of them were ever playing out of town at a non league football ground in front of 300 people. I would absolutely love it if Oldham, or any club, did what those two teams have done but they’re not starting from the same position or anywhere near it.

It also doesn’t make sense to compare an NFL team who have 80k sell outs every week to an English rugby league team.

Thats 32 years ago, Oldham have lost a generation of fans, like Mike Ford said no kids in Oldham even knew they had a rugby league team, I doubt the same could be said of Leigh or Hull.

Heerenveen’s average attendance is (or certainly was not long ago) bigger than the population of Heerenveen also.

No, but neither does Pontefract.

Absolutely good luck to them, but with all due respect to Oldham both Leigh and HKR are bigger clubs than Oldham, who two years ago were playing in front of one man and his dog. The idea that they’d average 7k in super league is absurd.

This can’t be right, I thought all other SL clubs took huge following to all their away games?

I know, but it shows that some people want to watch Catalans more than other SL clubs, despite the thought that Huddersfield and Salford sell loads of Sky Sports packages.

You don’t know then? There isn’t a club who could replace Catalan and enhance the competition.

Hemel have pulled out of this weekend’s game at Wymomdham, but fortunately Deeping Ducks have stepped in so the Vipers will be making the 82 mile trip there for a friendly instead.

Of course they do, they think the sport should be played entirely in a narrow strip of England.

I pay for sky sports and I actively watch Catalan games, especially their home ones. The same can’t be said for all SL clubs.

What is it with Carney, Wilkin and white trousers.

Who says it could be Oldham? They get about 1,500 fans and that’s with their best team in decades and a massive feel good factor. If it’s down to just picking a team for the sake of it Widnes would be a far better choice.

There’s a super league TV deal and Catalan are a super league side. They won’t get a French TV deal any more than Wakey would get an English TV deal on their own, but they’re as much a part of the comp and deal as anyone else.

Because he has no source and even SL wouldn’t be that stupid. It would be like getting one of the more fantasist members of this forum to pick.

Agreed, putting London in would be purely for the word London and nothing else.

It isn’t true, thankfully.

They’re a competitive (usually) team fulfilling SL fixtures, who offer a great Saturday evening tv slot and away fans love going to Perpignan, what more do you want? I can’t think of any championship club who’d improve SL by replacing Catalan.