Could you please stop derailing this thread with your inane questions about me? This message board is about the game, the players, the clubs, international developments, and the interests of the fans.

So why are you still allowed on?!





And, we need answers to those questions - for the good of the game.

Toulouse have beaten Doncaster 48-14 at Doncaster.



Now Toulouse have dispatched three Championship rivals in a row, two at their oppponents home ground. Toulouse scored eight ( 8 ) tries to four (4).

So your wish will be granted Alice



You will be going to the ' ball ', or is that the tea party

I will wait until Toulouse make the Championship Grand Final before I attend any parties. Because if that happens this year then I will know that Toulouse's SL license is a certainty.

It already is!



Toulouse are "nailed on" for a SL spot

Not if they don't get to a Grand Final. Which I maintain will not be a problem for them.

Does this man that you are predicting a Toulouse SL license?

There maybe some small minded and spiteful fans of the lesser English M62 clubs, who would like to ridicule Les Catalans performance today.



Any honest fans will recognise that Les Catalans were badly understrength today. They were missing their star playmakers and several international forwards. In particular the injured players (3 Australian, 3 French) were:



Greg Bird

Thomas Bosc

Adam Mogg

Jason Ryles

Cyrille Gossard

Sebastien Raguin



Had the positions been reversed, and Hull KR were without Dobson, Cooke, Vella, and three other regulars, while Les Catalans were full strength, no doubt that the scoreline would have been reversed.

Another great win for Toulouse, they are certainly having no problems scoring!

Really? Your own comments about Catalans and their coach this season suggest perhaps not.

why is everybody so delighted if a french club does well?

Because they're coming to Super League. Coming to save our dying game. Vive la France !!!

Not so. The coach and the club have picked up in the last three weeks.



Assuming Bosc, Bird, Ferriol and Ryles can remain uninjured for most games, the team will certainly make the top eight and possibly the top three.

Like he said!!!

But, had you had your way, he'd have been out on his [iars[/ie three week ago. Lucky for them that you aren't in a position to make those decisions. Maybe you should go to some games rather than commenting on them from in front of your PC and sat on your swivel chair

That does not follow.



I am sure that if Graham Murray, Michael Hagan or John Lang had taken over the coaching position, then the team would have rallied at least as well, if not better than they have under Kevin Walters. The squad, on paper, is capable of reaching the Grand Final.









The season is not even at half way yet!!!



I intend to go to some Les Catalans games in Perpignan, as I do most years. I have even attended UTC vs Toulouse and Toulouse vs Widnes in 2005! Maybe you should make the effort to go to some French games in France as well.





I expect that by season's end I will have attended many more of Les Catalans games than you -- not a great achievement admittedly.

I've never even been to France





Never really caught my imagination as a place i'd like to visit to be honest. Don't know why really. Maybe i will swap my cloth cap for a beret one weekend

The Halifax game against Toulouse, in Toulouse on Saturday 18 July at 8pm, would seem to provide the ideal opportunity for you to go.

Unfortunately i'm on holiday in Bath. It's the Halifax "Wakes" holiday which, for some strange reason, we still adhere to - even though i don't live there anymore and my wife's from Sheffield. I really do need to march into Europe and have a look at what all the fuss is about though.

If my Aunt had balls she'd be my Uncle

That's because there is nothing else to do in the middle of nowhere.

That is relevant, but not the issue at hand.

The matches against Featherstone, Halifax and Widnes will indicate whether Toulouse can qualify for SL this year.

French RL marches on?! Think that march was halted somewhat by The King of Kings at Craven Park yesterday!