The Virtual Terrace • French RL struggling
Reports are that Lyon have decided to drop a division, and Toulon may not start. There is a serious Referee shortage and The junior game will be affected in that regular full games at that level may give way to short game tournaments. We have to be pretty careful about calling Toulouse "expansion" when the French game is in contraction.
I don't think TO and Catalans have any French TV money sorted either so if we are going to 2x10 which many suggest is nailed on can anyone see SKY being happy with the possibility of only eight English clubs in the top division here?? Some people need to get their head out of the clouds,......
In 2009 we had 13 top flight British SL clubs, if Toulouse and Catalans continue to take refuge here then we could end up looking at only eight English Superleague clubs and consequently no TV deal ourselves. RL Message boards this last few years have been awash with tall tales of "Expansion" including Perez's phoney NA clubs, and too short on reality.
I don't think TO and Catalans have any French TV money sorted either so if we are going to 2x10 which many suggest is nailed on can anyone see SKY being happy with the possibility of only eight English clubs in the top division here?? Some people need to get their head out of the clouds,......
In 2009 we had 13 top flight British SL clubs, if Toulouse and Catalans continue to take refuge here then we could end up looking at only eight English Superleague clubs and consequently no TV deal ourselves. RL Message boards this last few years have been awash with tall tales of "Expansion" including Perez's phoney NA clubs, and too short on reality.
Statistics: Posted by Donnyman — Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:02 am — Replies 2 — Views 111