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Bilko wrote:No they'll play France away then as well.
This is a mid season test that is now contracted to be broadcast by the BBC. So it could be an afternoon kick off or a 5:30 if they do what they did in the 4th Round of the Cup last year.
The 4N is contracted to Sky.
tonight on sky -listed what there are showing this season, France v England plus the 4 nations was listed for sky
Sod the "my club blah blah blah" suspects, playing a game in Paris is a tremendous idea.
Rugby League has already made recent inroads into the city with the Catalans-Nike-Champs-Elysées initiative and, as Mintball notes, Bernard Laporte has seemed far more positive towards RL than most of us treizistes feared when the former RU national coach was given the job of sports minister.
In spite of the World Cup, RL in France is in its best health for decades and I admire the ambition of the FFR13 in taking international matches onto a national platform. At the end of the day, a French RL match taking place in Perpignan would get as much national coverage as, say, an England netball international taking place in Carlisle. Pretty much zip outside of local media.
And contrary to what was implied earlier in the thread, Paris is certainly not a "hotbed" of RU. They have one large club bankrolled by an incredibly rich man who manage to put together big events a few times a season. And fair play to them. But people flock to RU matches in the Stade de France BECAUSE it's in Paris, and that's what gives glamour to those events. Anyone who's ever knocked about in any of the suburbs surrounding St Denis will know that it really is not RU territory.
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