A Toulouse team thats competative could ultimately lead to a proper French League. A Catalan v Toulouse game would generate alot of interest, and two teams of French RL would generate alot more interest than 1. Its obvious really

Lol, like the high quality nzrl comp?



Maybe language barrier and lifestyle has something to do with French players not joining SL clubs in England, maybe poor scouting by SL clubs?



If I lived in NZ I would be trying my hardest to move to Australia as well, no wonder Australian clubs are full of kiwis!



French int RL will not gain any ground with 15-20 players in a ft club. Arguable with 30-40 but at least it's an improvement.



Ideally in the future the Europe game will be strong enough to have three French teams and two welsh teams in a sixteen club ESL but that appears many moons away, if ever.

Population of NZ? 6000 people and 20000000 sheep? Can hardly compare it to France. We need more French players in English SL clubs + Toulouse in SL.



Perpignan can't represent the whole of France.

as an aside: the population of New Zealand is about 4.5 million people.

Which makes its impact in both rugby codes quite something.

Not much else to do in NZ is there? Isn't that why a lot of Kiwis are playing at Aussie clubs?

Quote LifeLongHKRFan="LifeLongHKRFan"Not much else to do in NZ is there? Isn't that why a lot of Kiwis are playing at Aussie clubs?'" not much to do? im guessing you have never been? new zealanders are probably one of the most active and adventurous people going www.newzealand.com/uk/things-to-do/

Quote LifeLongHKRFan="LifeLongHKRFan"Not much else to do in NZ is there? Isn't that why a lot of Kiwis are playing at Aussie clubs?'" not much to do? im guessing you have never been? new zealanders are probably one of the most active and adventurous people going www.newzealand.com/uk/things-to-do/

Quote number 6="number 6"not much to do? im guessing you have never been? new zealanders are probably one of the most active and adventurous people going www.newzealand.com/uk/things-to-do/'" Well considering my post was asking 2 questions, isn't it obvious that i haven't been? (another question as you can tell by the question mark at the end)

Quote number 6="number 6"not much to do? im guessing you have never been? new zealanders are probably one of the most active and adventurous people going www.newzealand.com/uk/things-to-do/'" Well considering my post was asking 2 questions, isn't it obvious that i haven't been? (another question as you can tell by the question mark at the end)

Why do you think Gutterfax spends so much time on here rambling on like a broken record?

I returned from NZ after just 3 years ( aged 17 ) in 1978 basically because it wasnt the most exciting place on the planet



However that has most certainly changed now, they have invented many pastimes of the ' Extreme ' variety over the years to keep themselves busy



I do know quite a few people who have visited Oz, and have had it on their no 1 place in the world to live if they ever left the UK, only to change their mind after visiting Aotearoa , it is most definatly " Sweet as " , and it is only by living there can you understand the importance of RU to the place

NZ is still boring unless your into outdoors stuff. Why do you think so many come over here. Europe's got everything.

So what do you propose given that 99.9 percent of RL clubs in Europe are in the UK ??? the names of 20 European cities in a hat and draw one out every 10 years to join the competition ???

Would be fantastic for the sport if that fixture became one of the most important and best attended matches in the RL calendar,i wouldn't mind going over and taking the game in myself