Amd this is coming of a fella who says the players are playing too many games.

I believe he said too many club games, not too many tests. Furthermore, staging an England vs France game doesn't mean that the senior England international players have to be selected against France, they can be rotated or rested for that game depending on their workload and fitness.

60-6, of which 24 points were scored when they were one man up, this with half the first-choice players injured (including halves and fb). Yes, that's an improvement on last year.

TO in SL would see the first-choice internationals split between two clubs and more reliance on the younger players, so a faster emergence of the likes of Vaccari, Bartheau, Simon et al., which in turn would see better cover if the first choice players are injured.

From an international POV we need TO in SL and FCL and Pia in the Championship. It would drop the level of the LER to the same as Championship1, but it would develop the national sport, which would then invigorate the sport in the UK and France.

France are better but I don't think people are appreciating the advancement England are making to catch the aussies. I honestly believe if you look at the British team of ten years ago compared to today we are moving in the right direction quickly, even though we are still some way off. This doesn't help France's cause.
I cant remember the year but about 6 years ago France gave us a good game, maybe a bit longer than that ago. The France team now would murder that side.

I think France will get better in the next World Cup in three years. The youth set up that has been set up by Cats and the French RL hasn't had time to come into the national team yet, so France are playing with pretty much the same players as they were before Catalans came into SL. I think they could do with a few of their younger players going over to the NRL. Also Fakir isn't going to be a miss, he's got bags of talent and no brain, the french Ricky Bibey.