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Post by Marv on Aug 20, 2008 16:58:27 GMT 10
Fixtures are out guys, Toulouse down to play in Elite but if they do take the spot in NL1 Toulouse opponents will all get byes.
Tough task for the new boys Avignon, Limoux V UTC looks the plum tie of the 1st round.
1ère journée - 11-12 Octobre 2008 (12ème journée - 3-4 Janvier 2009)
LIMOUX/UTC
ST GAUDENS/AVIGNON
CARCASSONNE/LYON VILLEURBANNE
CARPENTRAS/ALBI
VILLENEUVE/ LEZIGNAN
PIA/TOULOUSE
2ème Journée - 18-19 Octobre (13ème journée - 17-18 Janvier 2009)
AVIGNON/UTC
LYON VILLEURBANNE/ST GAUDENS
ALBI/CARCASSONNE
LEZIGNAN/CARPENTRAS
PIA/LIMOUX
TOULOUSE/VILLENEUVE
3ème Journée - 25-26 Octobre 2008 (14ème journée - 24-25 Janvier 2009)
LIMOUX/AVIGNON
UTC/LYON VILLEURBANNE
ST GAUDENS/ALBI
CARCASSONNE/LEZIGNAN
CARPENTRAS/TOULOUSE
VILLENEUVE/PIA
4ème Journée - 1er-2 Novembre 2008 (15ème journée - 31 janvier-1er Février 2009)
LYON VILLEURBANNE/AVIGNON
UTC/ALBI
VILLENEUVE/LIMOUX
LEZIGNAN/ST GAUDENS
PIA/CARPENTRAS
TOULOUSE/CARCASSONNE
5ème journée - 8-9 Novembre 2008 (16ème journée – 14-15 Février 2009)
LIMOUX/LYON VILLEURBANNE
UTC/LEZIGNAN
STGAUDENS/TOULOUSE
AVIGNON/ALBI
CARCASSONNE/PIA
CARPENTRAS VILLENEUVE
6ème journée - 15-16 Novembre 2008 (17ème journée - 21-22 février 2009)
CARPENTRAS/LIMOUX
ALBI/LYON VILLEURBANNE
VILLENEUVE/CARCASSONNE
LEZIGNAN/AVIGNON
PIA/ST GAUDENS
TOULOUSE/UTC
7ème Journée - 22-23 Novembre 2008 (18ème journée - 28 Février-1er Mars 2009)
LIMOUX/ALBI
UTC/PIA
ST GAUDENS/VILLENEUVE
AVIGNON/TOULOUSE
CARCASSONNE/CARPENTRAS
LYON VILLEURBANNE/LEZIGNAN
8ème Journée - 29-30 Novembre 2008 (19ème journée - 7-8 Mars 2009)
CARCASSONNE/LIMOUX
CARPENTRAS/ST GAUDENS
VILLENEUVE/UTC
LEZIGNAN/ALBI
PIA/AVIGNON
TOULOUSE/LYON VILLEURBANNE
9ème Journée - 6-7 Décembre 2008 (20ème journée - 21-22 Mars 2009)
LIMOUX/LEZIGNAN
UTC/CARPENTRAS
ST GAUDENS/CARCASSONNE
AVIGNON/VILLENEUVE
LYON VILLEURBANNE/PIA
ALBI/TOULOUSE
10ème Journée - 13-14 Décembre 2008 (21ème journée - 28-29 Mars 2009)
STGAUDENS/LIMOUX
CARCASSONNE/UTC
CARPENTRAS/AVIGNON
VILLENEUVE/LYON VILLEURBANNE
ALBI/PIA
TOULOUSE/LEZIGNAN
11ème Journée - 20-21 Décembre 2008 (22ème Journée - 18-19 Avril 2009)
LIMOUX/TOULOUSE
UTC/ST GAUDENS
AVIGNON/CARCASSONNE
LYON VILLEURBANNE/CARPENTRAS
ALBI/VILLENEUVE
LEZIGNAN/PIA
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Post by Druzik on Sept 2, 2008 18:38:47 GMT 10
So toulouse are in the NL1 comp now Marve, and as I undersatnd Barrow have got promotion to NL1 - Congratulations - Will you be doing the away trip by any chance?
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Post by Marv on Sept 2, 2008 19:13:06 GMT 10
So toulouse are in the NL1 comp now Marve, and as I undersatnd Barrow have got promotion to NL1 - Congratulations - Will you be doing the away trip by any chance? Id love too, heres how its gonna go hopefully- Saturday afternoon- Toulouse v Barrow/LER game Saturday evening- Catalans v SL team Sunday- LER game/ Toulouse v Barrow
I undersatnd Barrow have got promotion to NL1Thats right spud, never mind though still maybe you will get the honour of playing against Barrow next year, no serioisly I want you to get promoted so we can be guaranteed 6 points |
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Post by Druzik on Sept 11, 2008 21:39:03 GMT 10
Ahhhh September, when the swet sound of birds chirping arrives with the first crisp morning of the coming Autumn and first leaves start to fall. With the dew and frost covering the grass. The fresh air and afternoon rains and... ... a Frigin French club team going BUST AGAIN! Posted this on main forum but maybe it should be on here. Apologies for doubling up. "Bad news from France where the SASP of RC Albi X111 has gone into liquidation. The SASP is the limited company that runs the professional side of French Elite clubs. All must now have an SASP. This has been on the cards for some time as the club had not payed players all their dues by the end of last season, despite reaching the Lord Derby Cup final. Albi have links with Leeds Rhinos and clearly Leeds taking over Eric Anselme's contract was one way of helping Albi, whilst at the same time benefitting Leeds. Chairman of the SASP, Pascal Halford has battled almost alone to resolve the crisis, coming to the club late. The club has had several players on pro contracts without the means of supporting that. The "Association" or club for the amateur side is still intact and the priority for Albi is to see what can be salvaged in terms of teams and level of competition. A meeting takes place to look at what can be salvaged and to develop a way foward, for teams at Senior, Junior and Minimes levels. The club has been innovative in lots of ways, including marketing, but it clearly has not had the means to support its wage bill. Pascal Halford did look at ways of collaboration with the local RU club, also suffering. The area is steeped in RL, with several amateur clubs in the vicinity, and the Mairie is a relatively wealthy one which tends to support the RL club. It is likely to do so again but clearly not at a level that will support the financial outlays of the past year, which incidentally are not the fault of the current chairman, as the contracts were already in place before he assumed the reins. A sense of deja vu as this time last year Limoux was in serious financial difficulty and Carcassonne had been penalised for the debts and forbidden to sign any further players. The French Federation has yet to respond as it has just happened. Pascal Halford will be looking tomorrow at the meetingto see what can be done to allow the Association or Club to secure the future of the club and allow it to move foward. clearly there could be some offloading of those players on pro contracts. Fingers crossed for a very famous and historic club." Fekin what is it with french teams almost obsession to go broke in September?!  |
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Post by Marv on Sept 11, 2008 23:17:04 GMT 10
Ahhhh September, when the swet sound of birds chirping arrives with the first crisp morning of the coming Autumn and first leaves start to fall. With the dew and frost covering the grass. The fresh air and afternoon rains and... ... a Frigin French club team going BUST AGAIN! Posted this on main forum but maybe it should be on here. Apologies for doubling up. "Bad news from France where the SASP of RC Albi X111 has gone into liquidation. The SASP is the limited company that runs the professional side of French Elite clubs. All must now have an SASP. This has been on the cards for some time as the club had not payed players all their dues by the end of last season, despite reaching the Lord Derby Cup final. Albi have links with Leeds Rhinos and clearly Leeds taking over Eric Anselme's contract was one way of helping Albi, whilst at the same time benefitting Leeds. Chairman of the SASP, Pascal Halford has battled almost alone to resolve the crisis, coming to the club late. The club has had several players on pro contracts without the means of supporting that. The "Association" or club for the amateur side is still intact and the priority for Albi is to see what can be salvaged in terms of teams and level of competition. A meeting takes place to look at what can be salvaged and to develop a way foward, for teams at Senior, Junior and Minimes levels. The club has been innovative in lots of ways, including marketing, but it clearly has not had the means to support its wage bill. Pascal Halford did look at ways of collaboration with the local RU club, also suffering. The area is steeped in RL, with several amateur clubs in the vicinity, and the Mairie is a relatively wealthy one which tends to support the RL club. It is likely to do so again but clearly not at a level that will support the financial outlays of the past year, which incidentally are not the fault of the current chairman, as the contracts were already in place before he assumed the reins. A sense of deja vu as this time last year Limoux was in serious financial difficulty and Carcassonne had been penalised for the debts and forbidden to sign any further players. The French Federation has yet to respond as it has just happened. Pascal Halford will be looking tomorrow at the meetingto see what can be done to allow the Association or Club to secure the future of the club and allow it to move foward. clearly there could be some offloading of those players on pro contracts. Fingers crossed for a very famous and historic club." Fekin what is it with french teams almost obsession to go broke in September?! its sad but as the poster states most people could see this coming, I hope it works for them after such a good promotion season |
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Post by Druzik on Sept 12, 2008 17:06:50 GMT 10
The poster is Cliff Spraklen... he put up on TRL.
He later on also posted that its only the professional financial arm that is broke, all french League teams require these to be run as a business. The Amateur arm of the club is doing well still.
But he goes on to say its not all doom and gloom and that other clubs in the last few years have been in the same or worse situation and bounced back and sees no reason why they can't either.
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Post by Marv on Sept 12, 2008 17:30:28 GMT 10
The poster is Cliff Spraklen... he put up on TRL. He later on also posted that its only the professional financial arm that is broke, all french League teams require these to be run as a business. The Amateur arm of the club is doing well still. But he goes on to say its not all doom and gloom and that other clubs in the last few years have been in the same or worse situation and bounced back and sees no reason why they can't either. yeah i know mate i found this link last night from l'independant www.lindependant.com/articles/2008/09/11/20080911-Derniere-minute-Elite-Le-RC-Albi-XIII-en-liquidation-judicaire.php5which roughly says words to that effect it also states the club will sack its 7 pro players and are 150,000 euro in debt, hope it can turn around for them. |
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Post by Druzik on Sept 26, 2008 16:26:40 GMT 10
With Jean-Alain Rives Chair of the LER clubs confirming that there will be 10 clubs in the elite this coming season, following the departures of Toulouse to NL One and Albi RL to Elite 2, following the liquidation of the SASP of RC Albi, changes will be made to the elite fixture format. The play-offs will be a top 5 instead of a top 6. But there is to be an innovation along English lines. There will be two extra fixtures one to the "aller et retour" (home and away) schedule, with those games being played as part of a magic day or weekend at one site. This site will be Narbonne, Beziers or Toulouse final plans still to be confirmed. Out of the difficulties an innovative approach. Could be quite a weekend! |
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Post by Druzik on Oct 1, 2008 0:48:38 GMT 10
Marv, with toulouse and albi out of the comp now what will the comp look like. Is it same as above or a new draw being done?
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Post by Marv on Oct 1, 2008 1:28:59 GMT 10
All I know is they are going to have 10 teams playing home and away, to make up for the lack of fixtures they are looking at doing a "magic weekend" kind of thing, where they take a round on the road to, possibly, and this is all heresay and rumour, one of either Toulouse, Paris, Bezieres, Perpignan or Narbonne, as you can imagine they are all getting thrown about on Mb's and suchlike but smart money is on Toulouse or Narbonne........ maybe  |
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Post by Druzik on Oct 1, 2008 1:36:12 GMT 10
yes but are they sticking to the above schedule or a new one being done up?
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Post by Marv on Oct 2, 2008 17:38:18 GMT 10
same schedule i belive
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Post by Druzik on Oct 2, 2008 17:40:40 GMT 10
Does that mean that teams get byes who wer going to play Toulouse and Albi?
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Post by Marv on Oct 2, 2008 17:59:28 GMT 10
revised schedule from Rugbyforum XIII......looks different
as for the extra rounds.........The first is extra game will be 1st v 2nd, 3rd v 4th and so on from last year's table. The second is still to be decided.
ROUND 1 - 11/12 October 2008
Limoux v Lyon
St Gaudens v UTC
Carcassonne v Avignon
Carpentras v Lézignan
Pia v Villeneuve
ROUND 2 - 18/19 October 2008
Avignon v St Gaudens
Lyon-Villeurbanne v Carpentras
Villeneuve v Carcassonne
Lézignan v Pia
UTC v Limoux
ROUND 3 - 25/26 October 2008
UTC v Avignon
Pia v Lyon-Villeurbanne
St Gaudens v Villeneuve
Carcassonne v Lézignan
Carpentras v Limoux
ROUND 4 - 1/2 November 2008
Lyon-Villeurbanne v Carcassonne
Carpentras v UTC
Villeneuve v Avignon
Lézignan v St Gaudens
Limoux v Pia
ROUND 5 - 8/9 November 2008
Pia v Carpentras
UTC v Villeneuve
St Gaudens v Lyon-Villeurbanne
Avignon v Lézignan
Carcassonne v Limoux
ROUND 6 - 15/16 November 2008
Carpentras v Carcassonne
Lézignan v Villeneuve
Lyon-Villeurbanne v Avignon
Limoux v St Gaudens
Pia v UTC
ROUND 7 - 22/23 November 2008
Villeneuve v Lyon-Villeurbanne
UTC v Lézignan
St Gaudens v Carpentras
Avignon v Limoux
Carcassonne v Pia
ROUND 8 - 29/30 November 2008
Carcassonne v UTC
Carpentras v Avignon
Limoux v Villeneuve
Lyon-Villeurbanne v Lézignan
Pia v St Gaudens
ROUND 9 - 6/7 December 2008
Lézignan v Limoux
UTC v Lyon-Villeurbanne
St Gaudens v Carcassonne
Avignon v Pia
Villeneuve v Carpentras
ROUND 10 - 13 December 2008
Lézignan v Pia
Carcassonne v Limoux
UTC v St Gaudens
Carpentras v Lyon-Villeurbanne
Villeneuve v Avignon
ROUND 11 - 3/4 January 2009
Lyon-Villeurbanne v Limoux
UTC v St Gaudens
Avignon v Carcassonne
Lézignan v Carpentras
Villeneuve v Pia
ROUND 12 - 10/11 January 2009
St Gaudens v Avignon
Carpentras v Lyon-Villeurbanne
Carcassonne v Villeneuve
Pia v Lézignan
Limoux v UTC
ROUND 13 - 17/18 January 2009
Lyon-Villeurbanne v Pia
Avignon v UTC
Villeneuve v St Gaudens
Lézignan v Carcassonne
Limoux v Carpentras
ROUND 14 - 24/25 January 2009
Carcassonne v Lyon-Villeurbanne
UTC v Carpentras
Avignon v Villeneuve
St Gaudens v Lézignan
Pia v Limoux
ROUND 15 - 31 January/1 February 2009
Carpentras v Pia
Villeneuve v UTC
Lyon-Villeurbanne v St Gaudens
Lézignan v Avignon
Limoux v Carcassonne
8/9 February 2009
Lord Derby Cup - round of 16
ROUND 16 - 14/15 February 2009
Carcassonne v Carpentras
Villeneuve v Lézignan
Avignon v Lyon-Villeurbanne
St Gaudens v Limoux
UTC v Pia
ROUND 17 - 21/22 February 2009
Lyon-Villeurbanne v Villeneuve
Lézignan v UTC
Carpentras v St Gaudens
Limoux v Avignon
Pia v Carcassonne
ROUND 18 - 28 February/1 March 2009
UTC v Carcassonne
Avignon v Carpentras
Villeneuve v Limoux
Lézignan v Lyon-Villeurbanne
St Gaudens v Pia
14/15 February 2009
Lord Derby Cup quarter-finals
ROUND 19 - 21 March 2009
Second extra round
ROUND 20 - 28/29 March 2009
Limoux v Lézignan
Lyon-Villeurbanne v UTC
Carcassonne v St Gaudens
Pia v Avignon
Carpentras v Villeneuve
4/5 April 2009
Lord Derby Cup semi-finals
19 April 2009
Lord Derby Cup Final
25/26 April 2009
Championship play-offs - first round
2/3 May 2009
Championship play-offs - second round
9/10 May 2009
Championship play-offs - semi-finals
17 May 2009
Championship Final
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Post by Druzik on Oct 2, 2008 18:02:24 GMT 10
What date is the first extra round? You fancy a trip to france Marve... I think I will.
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