Elite 1 Players with first grade experience

[SydneyRoosters]

Here is every single player in Elite 1 that has played a game in either the NRL OR SL.

 

St Esteve-Catalan :

Tanguy Zenon

Ugo Tison

Bastien Scimone

Lucas Ribas

Mike Parenti

Leo Llong

Leo Laurent

Maxime Jobe

Loan Castano

 

Toulouse Olympique Elite:

Robin Brochon

Benjamin Laguerre

 

Villeneuve:

Nobody

 

Avignon:

Nobody

 

Carcassonne:

Matthieu Khedimi

 

Albi:

Maxime Puech

Hakim Miloudi

Sam Cook

 

Pia:

Benjamin Jullien

Dean Whare

Joseph Paulo

Ugo Perez

John Guasch

Mitch Clark

 

St Gaudens:

Mitch Garbutt

 

Lezignan:

Jason Baitieri

Corey Norman

James Maloney

Anthony Maria

Kurt Dillon

Limoux:

Stanislas Robin

Jason Clark

Constantine Mika

Zachery Santo

 

League stats:

NRL Only : 3

NRL and SL: 8

SL Only: 20

All Together there are currently 31 Players with first-grade experience playing in Elite 1, Add Corentin Le Cam, Samisoni Langi and Romain Franco who are all Highly likely to sign there in the coming weeks, There are 34 First graders in Elite 1.

Really good signs for the future of this league and it seems to be growing in standard every year, there is a high likely hood that it could become fully professional of the back of the 2025 World Cup. Really positive signs for the future of French rugby league as a whole.

Please let me know if I have missed anyone.

Edited October 30, 2022 by SydneyRoosters

[SydneyRoosters]

Just Realised, interestingly there is not 1 English player in elite 1 who has played SL.

Edit- Mitch Clark has reportedly signed with Pia so I take this back.

Edited October 25, 2022 by SydneyRoosters

[kiggy]

I heard that Laguerre might be switching to the 1st team. 

Having said that, he will probably go to Fev now, like the rest of the young French lads have done recently

[The Daddy]

3 hours ago, SydneyRoosters said:

Here is every single player in Elite 1 that has played a game in either the NRL OR SL.

 

St Esteve-Catalan :

Tanguy Zenon

Ugo Tison

Bastien Scimone

Lucas Ribas

Mike Parenti

Leo Llong

Leo Laurent

Maxime Jobe

Loan Castano

 

Toulouse Olympique Elite:

Robin Brochon

Benjamin Laguerre

 

Villeneuve:

Nobody

 

Avignon:

Nobody

 

Carcassonne:

Matthieu Khedimi

 

Albi:

Maxime Puech

Hakim Miloudi

Sam Cook

 

Pia:

Benjamin Jullien

Dean Whare

Joseph Paulo

Ugo Perez

John Guasch

Mitch Clark

 

St Gaudens:

Mitch Garbutt

 

Lezignan:

Jason Baitieri

Corey Norman

James Maloney

Anthony Maria

 

Limoux:

Stanislas Robin

Jason Clark

Constantine Mika

Zachery Santo

 

League stats:

NRL Only : 2

NRL and SL: 8

SL Only: 20

All Together there are currently 30 Players with first-grade experience playing in Elite 1, Add Corentin Le Cam, Samisoni Langi and Romain Franco who are all Highly likely to sign there in the coming weeks, There are 33 First graders in Elite 1.

Really good signs for the future of this league and it seems to be growing in standard every year, there is a high likely hood that it could become fully professional of the back of the 2025 World Cup. Really positive signs for the future of French rugby league as a whole.

Please let me know if I have missed anyone.

34 if you add Hugo Salabio 

[SydneyRoosters]

8 minutes ago, The Daddy said:

34 if you add Hugo Salabio 

He’s not signed by anyone currently, not sure what’s going on with him.

[ATLANTISMAN]

Aim is to have a fully professional comp up and running for 2025.

8 teams

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[The Daddy]

21 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

Aim is to have a fully professional comp up and running for 2025.

8 teams

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Do you know which teams? 

[ATLANTISMAN]

36 minutes ago, The Daddy said:

Do you know which teams? 

From memory (And this is in early stages) as they are talking to investors.

No particular order

CARCASSONNE

ALBI

TOULOUSE (Possible) 

TOULON

AVIGNON

LYON

PARIS

VILLENEUVE/AGEN 

 

Cannot remember if BORDEAUX was in there as well.

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[The Daddy]

26 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

From memory (And this is in early stages) as they are talking to investors.

No particular order

CARCASSONNE

ALBI

TOULOUSE (Possible) 

TOULON

AVIGNON

LYON

PARIS

VILLENEUVE/AGEN 

 

Cannot remember if BORDEAUX was in there as well.

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That's a decent list. My reservations though are the stadium in Albi is not good enough. It's a dump. Even watching their games on social media are painful to watch.

Carcassonne's ground needs work and I assume that the Leopards will play at Agen RU's ground? 

[RS]

Not sure why Carcassonne’s ground needs work?

New good sized stand on one side and a large stand on the other in a decent state of repair that was upgraded not that long ago. 
 

Albi’s ground for the international games has fairly big covered stands up each touchline.

l’d say both grounds are better than at least two in SL

Edited October 25, 2022 by RS

[ATLANTISMAN]

41 minutes ago, The Daddy said:

That's a decent list. My reservations though are the stadium in Albi is not good enough. It's a dump. Even watching their games on social media are painful to watch.

Carcassonne's ground needs work and I assume that the Leopards will play at Agen RU's ground? 

2 stadiums in Albi would be the one where the recent France v Wales match was played pretty much OK holds 10000 ish:)

 

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[barnyia]

45 minutes ago, The Daddy said:

That's a decent list. My reservations though are the stadium in Albi is not good enough. It's a dump. Even watching their games on social media are painful to watch.

Carcassonne's ground needs work and I assume that the Leopards will play at Agen RU's ground? 

Carcassonne ground needs work? It's up to pro D2 union standard and would pass for top 14! 

[welshmagpie]

9 hours ago, SydneyRoosters said:

Just Realised, interestingly there is not 1 English player in elite 1 who has played SL.

Edit- Mitch Clark has reportedly signed with Pia so I take this back.

.

Edited October 25, 2022 by welshmagpie

[barnyia]

1 hour ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

From memory (And this is in early stages) as they are talking to investors.

No particular order

CARCASSONNE

ALBI

TOULOUSE (Possible) 

TOULON

AVIGNON

LYON

PARIS

VILLENEUVE/AGEN 

 

Cannot remember if BORDEAUX was in there as well.

P 

 

 

 

 

 

No Lézignan or limoux? The two teams with the biggest regular attendances and largest rugby schools? 

[The Daddy]

1 hour ago, RS said:

Not sure why Carcassonne’s ground needs work?

New good sized stand on one side and a large stand on the other in a decent state of repair that was upgraded not that long ago. 
 

Albi’s ground for the international games has fairly big covered stands up each touchline.

l’d say both grounds are better than at least two in SL

I'm thinking of the smaller stadium in Albi they've been playing at recently. Still I'm not a fan of RL played at stadiums with athletic tracks 

Edited October 25, 2022 by The Daddy

[Gambass]

2 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

From memory (And this is in early stages) as they are talking to investors.

No particular order

CARCASSONNE

ALBI

TOULOUSE (Possible) 

TOULON

AVIGNON

LYON

PARIS

VILLENEUVE/AGEN 

 

Cannot remember if BORDEAUX was in there as well.

P 

 

 

 

 

 

That seems too good to be true... From that list, I could only see Carcassonne making the jump to professional rugby on short term. 

[The Daddy]

Overall though turning professional is the right strategic route to take, I've been calling for it for years so I'm pumped that the Federation is taking a lead on this. This is excellent news.

[Number 16]

2 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

From memory (And this is in early stages) as they are talking to investors.

No particular order

CARCASSONNE

ALBI

TOULOUSE (Possible) 

TOULON

AVIGNON

LYON

PARIS

VILLENEUVE/AGEN 

 

Cannot remember if BORDEAUX was in there as well

Which came first, the locations or the potential investors? 

And what is the estimated annual cost of running a full-time club in France?

[MattSantos]

11 minutes ago, Number 16 said:

Which came first, the locations or the potential investors? 

And what is the estimated annual cost of running a full-time club in France?

And where would be the best place to live down there....?

 

 

[Jughead]

Not sure what the strategy is behind attempting to go from part-time to full-time. I’d much rather see investment into the juniors and other formats of the sport than going professional based off of a one-off investment like the World Cup. 

[Number 16]

1 hour ago, Jughead said:

Not sure what the strategy is behind attempting to go from part-time to full-time. I’d much rather see investment into the juniors and other formats of the sport than going professional based off of a one-off investment like the World Cup. 

You're not going to get the same level of investment for junior development as for creating full-time clubs. And I suspect any agreements would be for more than one-offs. 

[ATLANTISMAN]

1 hour ago, Number 16 said:

Which came first, the locations or the potential investors? 

And what is the estimated annual cost of running a full-time club in France?

Sorry you are asking questions the i dont have the answers to, all i know is what the plans  are and that the FFR feel that without a full time league and the development of the national team then the game will never reach its potential.

 

 

[SydneyRoosters]

4 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

From memory (And this is in early stages) as they are talking to investors.

No particular order

CARCASSONNE

ALBI

TOULOUSE (Possible) 

TOULON

AVIGNON

LYON

PARIS

VILLENEUVE/AGEN 

 

Cannot remember if BORDEAUX was in there as well.

P 

 

 

 

 

 

If elite 1 became professional Catalan would join, Also Lezigan and Limoux are arguably the 2 best clubs in elite 1 right now, they would definitely be in it.

[ATLANTISMAN]

1 hour ago, MattSantos said:

And where would be the best place to live down there....?

 

 

Many lovely places (We used to live near to Perpignan) but moved to Spain around 14 years ago as we prefer the laid back lifestyle and the prices (At least 30/40% cheaper) i am 50/50 between here and a little village in Kent the nice thing is thats only 35 mins from my front door to the Dragons stadium:) 40 mins to Pia and around 90 mins to Carcassonne Lezignan and Limoux 2 hours 15 mins to Toulouse.

Last season i went to 14 matches at the Dragons 4 at Toulouse + 3 Elite 2 matches:) + France v England back in England another 15 SL + 3 Championship at the Broncos:) should make around 40 this season with the WC:)

Back to your question many lovely places however rural France can be challenging in the winter which is why we prefer Catalan/Spain.

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[ATLANTISMAN]

4 minutes ago, SydneyRoosters said:

If elite 1 became professional Catalan would join, Also Lezigan and Limoux are arguably the 2 best clubs in elite 1 right now, they would definitely be in it.

Best clubs yes however not in places where they could really grow crowds i guess.

Whatever happens they have to keep the traditional clubs and juniors happy.

 

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