Should Toulouse Olympique be promoted to Super League

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Toulouse Olympique won the Championship Grand Final on Sunday but will they be one of the club's promoted to Super League and which other clubs should join them?

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00:00yeah

00:06Sam C

00:07like what Pete said there

00:09Toulouse

00:09seemingly just earning

00:11their spot in Super League

00:12now especially with

00:13the 0.25

00:14but

00:14they're going to be

00:16really hard to ignore

00:17are they

00:17it seems to be

00:18Toulouse and

00:19two others

00:20maybe York

00:21one of them

00:21and

00:22between Bradford and London

00:23maybe for the last spot

00:24yeah

00:26I think one of the

00:27one of the reasons

00:29there's lots of

00:29reasons behind the move

00:30to 14

00:31but one of them was

00:32the genuine fear

00:34among some of the

00:35club owners that

00:36Toulouse would come up

00:37on IMG naturally

00:38I don't think

00:40that certain club owners

00:41wanted

00:42a sixth of the

00:44central funding

00:44going to France

00:45where they believe that

00:46they don't get anything

00:47back etc

00:47which I mean that's a

00:49claim to discuss

00:50for another day

00:51but I think that's

00:52one of the reasons

00:52why 14 was approved

00:53so that

00:54percentage wise

00:55money wasn't

00:56not as much

00:56was going to France

00:57I think

00:59yeah they were

00:5913th last year

01:00Salford are going to

01:01lose points

01:02Toulouse are going to

01:02gain points

01:03it's

01:03unless

01:04someone behind

01:05makes a big leap

01:06to lose luck

01:07to be in the 12

01:08and then yeah

01:09you've got

01:09effectively a

01:10three-horse race

01:11between York

01:12Bradford and

01:12London

01:13but

01:13London are only

01:14being considered

01:15obviously because of

01:16Gary Hetherington

01:17and then the

01:17Australian

01:18involvement

01:18they finished

01:1910th I think

01:19on the

01:20championship

01:21the squad

01:23at the moment

01:23if you look at it

01:24it's nowhere near

01:24Super League

01:25they've said that

01:26they're going to be

01:27bringing in some

01:28NRL names etc

01:29but

01:29they've got a lot

01:30to do

01:31and I think

01:31that's kind of

01:33where this whole

01:33process is a little

01:34bit

01:35I don't want to

01:36use the word shady

01:37but it's because

01:38it's behind closed

01:38doors in terms of

01:39the independent panel

01:40and

01:41you're looking at

01:42the sustainability

01:43the finances

01:44and projections

01:45projections are

01:47kind of a little

01:47bit hard to

01:48really nail down

01:50it's

01:51there's not

01:52really a

01:53there's obviously

01:56numbers behind it

01:57but it's kind of

01:57we will do this

01:58we will do that

01:59and you're kind of

01:59taking promises

02:00obviously those

02:01promises you say

02:02are more

02:03reliable now

02:04you've got

02:05Australian backing

02:06but

02:06you can't put

02:08a London team

02:09up that are

02:09going to have

02:10the squad

02:11comparable to

02:12what they have

02:12now

02:13they need

02:1310

02:1520

02:1510-15 players

02:16I mean

02:16Jordan Williams

02:17one of their

02:17props is going

02:18to Wakefield

02:18I'm sure

02:19they'll have

02:20other players

02:20picked away

02:21as well

02:21so

02:22I think

02:24that their

02:25challenge is

02:26proving that

02:28and then obviously

02:28Bradford's

02:28challenge is

02:29it's just the

02:30stadium isn't it

02:31like you can't

02:33you can't

02:34help that in

02:34Super League

02:34but it seems

02:36like that

02:36potential is

02:36going to be

02:36their way

02:37so

02:37yeah I think

02:38Toulou's probably

02:39the winning

02:41that

02:41makes it really

02:42really hard to

02:43deny them

02:43and if you do

02:44deny them

02:44it probably

02:45I think

02:45Sylvan Hills

02:46said it's

02:46now or never

02:46like what

02:47more can

02:47they do

02:48so

02:48and he's

02:49right

02:49if they get

02:50ignored now

02:50then

02:51it looks like

02:52there's an

02:52agenda there

02:53but I think

02:55it is hard to

02:56pick one of the

02:57four teams

02:58to not be in

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