However many it is, it will not be a lot sadly. Whether the Club has been in touch with any of the Lycée Français or the Institut-Français Du Royaume-uni to let them know Toulouse are in town is anyone's guess. Still its good to see Sylvain doing so well. Hard to believe he's 40, was but a kid when the Deadcowboy Possee sponsored him in the Charlton days.

If the French take this seriously this will be a cricket score. TO by 60.

From the great ape "Professional sport for £10-00 in London. If you never tried Rugby League then this is the game to pop down to" If the score goes the way nearly everybody is predicting I do not think many will come back.

I'm no fan of the person in question, but at least they are trying to market the game for once, even if doing it in a primary school type of way

I agree with the sentiment crash and in a typical season this would be a good game to market. Perhaps some liaison with London’s significant French population and some innovative foody(?)/ cultural event in the style of Toronto’s efforts might work However, I suspect WQ is right we’ll get spanked by a cricket score which would alienate potential fans. Worth remembering we don’t seem to be able to get a 21 man squad together and even a 19 man one contained 2 Academy players - to bolster the recent academy players we already have.

That's unfair on primary schools.

I think Toulouse will open a massive can of woop on us n show us 4 the team we are (average)

Just cant see anything other than a complete battering. Love to be wrong, but I honestly fear we could see something very bad.



The club do seem to be trying to drum up some business, it's a start but tweeting on the club twitter is just preaching to the few that know, I cant see it gaining new fans.

You know am just re reading a really good book, 13 winters, does actually say a lot of folks love affair with there chosen club started with a defeat in first game they saw.

Its not all about seeing a winning performance, a lot is about experience of the game. So the club have offered the opportunity win or lose.

While I don't expect anything but a defeat ( considering we'll still have a number of our recent academy graduates filling in for injured experienced players ) what really gets on my churns is the number of people on here, supposedly London supporters, who would wish us to get slaughtered .

It's not wishing we get slaughtered it's the reality that we are a very poor quality(Full time) team coming up against a very strong team and the likelihood is, given both teams recent Fev results, that we will get slaughtered.

Exactly right. However there's more to the equation than that. You can often win new / returning fans via a battling defeat in front of a vibrant crowd. There's also plenty of cross sport fan engagement research that a one sided battering is one of, if not the best way, of making sure first timers don't return. It also reinforces existing negative perceptions that caused fans to stop going / think about stopping going and may harm the club who did the offer n that way.



If the offer has driven a response, as an aside as a near two decades ex season ticket holder I haven't been notified of it yet by the club, it is critical the team defy the widespread expectation of this game. Off field there could be a lot riding on it.



I had hoped to return for this one however my elderly dog is clearly into her last few days so I'll stay home with her. Here's hoping I miss a thriller in front of a big gate of returning fans and new people.