A timely announcement....

France v Wales in Lens (no, me neither) October 20 and v England at Hull's Craven Park November 3.
Final at Salford November 11.

I'll try to come for the final. Hope it will be a England / France one.

does Lens have any rugby league history?!?!?
it's like they've just picked a random city out of a hat and put the game on there.

Answered your own question

900km away from the treizistes.

They fancy to open a club in the north of France. Luc Dayan, a guy to watch, has a project for the french RL, the "super 13", to create a full professionnal championship in the next years.

Wait and see

Les Chanticleers squad for the internationals:

Jason Baitieri (Dragons)
William Barthau (Dragons)
Romaric Bemba (ASC)
Andrew Bentley (Pia)
Kane Bentley (Pia)
Thomas Bosc (Dragons)
Julian Bousquet (Dragons)
Damien Cardace (Dragons)
Rémi Casty (Dragons)
Vincent Duport (Dragons)
Olivier Elima (Dragons)
Jamal Fakir (Dragons)
David Ferriol (Dragons)
Tony Gigot (SOA)
Matthieu Griffi (FCL)
David Guasch (UTC)
Kevin Larroyer (UTC)
Antoni Maria (UTC)
Samy Masselot (TO)
Mathias Pala (UTC)
Eloi Pelissier (Dragons)
Sébastien Planas (TO)
Sébastien Raguin (Dragons)
Stanislas Robin (UTC)
Teddy Sadaoui (ASC)
Mickael Simon (Dragons)
Clément Soubeyras (Pia)
Cyril Stacul (Pia)
Yoan Tisseyre (FCL)

few names i'm unfamiliar with there.

Masselot's the only one I don't know anything of. Anyone??

He made one Super League appearance for Wakefield in 2011, was given a full-time contract for this year and then was for some reason released by Agar in pre-season along with a number of other young players. I believe he went to Villeneuve after that, and obviously now is at TO. I believe he's a forward in the Guisset/Ben Flower mould, as in he can play anywhere in the pack and does a similar job.

what about Soubeyras?

If I'm thinking of the right guy, he's a young fullback for Pia. I've only seen him play once and he had a shocker TBH, the conditions and his team's performance didn't help but he looked a bit of a headless chicken and not secure at all. I'm guessing that wasn't a great game to judge him on since he has made the squad, and IIRC played against Wales mid-season too.

Ex-Carpentras full-back/winger. Not seen a huge amount tbh

Bagged 4 tries yesterday against Villeneuve

Yep. Went through the national teams age groups with the likes of Cardace and Bosquet. Extra points available for knowing he had a la'l turn in Leeds Academy too.

19-man squad for the Wales game:

Baitieri, Barthau, Bentley K, Bosc, Casty, Duport, Elima, Ferriol, Gigot, Griffi, Larroyer, Maria, Mounis, Pala, EEELLLOOIIII, Raguin, Simon, Soubeyras, Stacul.

anyone got the Wales squad?
looking at that, we should win this quite comfortably, but I said the same the other year before we lost to them in Albi.

Nothing yet, but the game is over a week away. Cologni was a bit quick off the mark naming his 19

Wales: Elliott Kear, Ben Evans, Mike Channing, Christiaan Roets, Rob Massam, Neil Budworth, Danny Jones, Craig Moss, Matt Seamark, David James, Steve Parry, Joe Burke, Jordan James, Gil Dudson, Ben Flower, Rhodri Lloyd, Rhys Pugsley, Dan Fleming, Craig Kopczak.

Pugsley....

Incidentally, the old Toulouse forum has been [url=http://viewforum.php?f=158&tsmp=1350637091re-tooled into a Les Chanticleers one[/url. Sub-forum off the international board on the index, fyi

[url=http://www.nrl.com/teenager-cologni-called-into-french-train-on-squad/tabid/10874/newsid/70288/default.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterNew name in the squad[/url

So to Hull, where not losing by 80 will see France into the final. It's a squad of 20 for this one:

Stacul, Pala, Duport, Larroyer, Soubeyras, Bosc, Barthau, Elima, Gigot, Casty, Raguin, Mounis, Bemba, Baitieri, Pélissier, Griffi, Fakir, Simon, Kane B, Cardace.

England: Ablett, Briscoe, Burrow, Charnley, Cudjoe, Ellis, Hall, Hardaker, Harrison, Hill, Hock, Jones-Buchanan, McIlorum, Morley, Mossop, Myler, Sinfield, Stomkins, Watkins.

We'll get within 80 of that, yeah?

Andrew Bentley and Julien Bousquet added to the squad for the final. Mounis, Simon and the StacAttack all out.
I think we might be runners-up.

Wasn't the best performance was it?

Maybe saving something for next weekend to make it a bit more of a match?

Ellis cleared for the final