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INDEPENDENT media services from Perpignan. English voices for Rugby League and the lifestyle, colour and culture of this Catalan corner of France.
Les Albères, French Catalonia
Joined December 2017
"No sky in all France is more blue than that of Collioure.”. Henri Matisse.❤💛
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It's gone nuts. incredible scenes here at Stade Ernest Wallon. Toulouse 22 St Helens 20 final score. 💜🇫🇷🏉
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French Rugby League club Carcassonne have applied to join @TheRFL's League One from 2026 onwards. ❤️💛
#Rugby : Carcassonne XIII prépare sa professionnalisation via @lindependant.
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Leeds-born, honed in Wigan, fine-tuned in France, Irish blood, English heart (of a lion!) Can we have a big hand for Catalans Dragons' Player of the Year and Players' Player, Michael McIlorum. Chapeau Mick. ❤💛🔥🐉🏆⭐
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I don't do politics on here, there's no point, but I have to pay due respect to the leader of a nation whose clarity of message is so pure. This isn't political, it's critical. French President Emmanuel Macron today. ❤💛🇫🇷
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Ex @nrl @PenrithPanthers star James Maloney: "French is a bit of a challenge, my wife and I went to the pharmacy to pick up a cold/flu remedy and I think we ended up with a packet of condoms, which is a bit late for us with four kids.".❤💛
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The loneliest guy in Rugby League tonight. the one and only @hullkrofficial supporter in Perpignan. he's travelled from Portugal for this!.❤💛🐉🐦
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Find me a better sport. Anywhere. I'm waiting. ❤️💛
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The next person who asks me what French teams bring to @SuperLeague . THE NEXT PERSON 😤.❤️💛🐉🦏
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Here comes the fun. the last three planeloads from Perpignan are on their way, bringing a little sunshine to Old Trafford. Understand there will be 4k-plus Frenchies at the Grand Final today and quite a few more non-Frenchies backing Les Dracs. ❤️💛🐉☀️🥳
Ils arrivent 🛫.Les 3 derniers avions affrétés par le club sont en chemin vers Manchester
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Pinched this picture from @DragonsOfficiel. an incredible image from Anfield of a young @WiganWarriorsRL fan with Tony Gigot at @SuperLeague Magic Weekend ❤💛
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If you don't love Rugby League, what's wrong with you?.🤩🤩.
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Great to see everybody's favourite Wigan fan Connah Campbell becoming a poster boy for the @NRL. If only we all enjoyed Rugby League as much as Connor does ❤💛😎👍
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BREAKING. French Rugby League to switch to a summer season with plans for FOUR French teams to join the UK championship and 'European Cup' clashes between the nations at all levels. Full story: 💙🤍❤️
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I repeat. I cannot remember our game looking better than this on national television. Absolute class, top half-time punditry with THAT background. It's epic, game on. ❤️💛
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The old lady of Rugby League. disrespected, sold out 😔
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Limoux Grizzlies, Rugby League champions of France 2023. ❤️🖤
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Cracking crowd at Elland Road. I've said it all my life. Rugby League is stronger than you think. ❤️💛.
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Been around for a long time in Rugby League and I've seen a lot of milestones but what the @NRL is doing tonight in Las Vegas makes me so proud of my sport. ❤️💛
Shot of the weekend pour moi, reppin' Palau Broncos, Catalans and French Rugby League in Vegas, my mate Loan and the Palau Massif. roll dem dice boys for the Treizistes!!.❤️💛🐴
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Fantastic initiative from the French Rugby League. they have called off all fixtures on 18th May 2019 to enable all players and supporters to attend the historic @DragonsOfficiel v @WiganWarriorsRL @SuperLeague clash at @FCBarcelona #CampNou2019
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It's on. Perpignan's Mayor approves a €15 million grant to transform Stade Gilbert Brutus. ❤️💛🐉
#Perpignan : nouvelle pelouse à Aimé-Giral, construction d'une tribune à Gilbert-Brutus. ces projets pour 2024 #Politique #rugby @DragonsOfficiel @usap_officiel via @lindependant.
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Rugby League in France was banned and its assets seized during WW2. The ban in schools was only lifted in 2012. Tomorrow, four universities from Toulouse, Lyon, Avignon and Marseille will hold a Rugby League tournament followed by an evening of fraternity. We fight on. 💙🤍❤️
🚨 C'est ce jeudi à la plaine des Sports d'Avignon ! 💪 #FFRXIII #rugbyXIII #rugby #rugbyleague #XIII.
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Watching wheelchair Rugby League live on the BBC I can't help feeling this is a pivotal moment for our game, for sport, and for life in general. ❤️💛
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Forget all those cheeky "Fatty" Smith comments, the former @Saints1890 and @WiganWarriorsRL scrum-half has just beaten all of his team-mates in the dreaded pre-season bleep test! Allez Matty 💪💪❤💛🐉🏆⭐
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More great news for European Rugby League this morning, I'm hearing that the fabulous city of Nice has returned to Rugby League with a new club launched into the @FFRXIII Federal Division this season. Cote d'Azur Treizistes. fantastique!.❤️💛🏖🇲🇫🏉
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IT'S OFFICIAL. tonight's @SuperLeague semi-final in Perpignan is a sell-out. The signs are up. COMPLET!.❤💛🐉.
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Don't want to put you off your breakfast but here's the latest on the Ben Garcia ear-watch. It came off again last night during the Huddersfield game but it's been reattached at Perpignan Hospital and is still there this morning. How tough are Rugby League players?.❤️💛🐉
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Fair play Wire. great turnout at the HJ, buildup reminds me of Friday nights at Mr Smith’s. ❤️💛
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Did I just see Jodie Cunningham, Kate Middleton and Emily Rudge having a chat. At a Rugby League game. In the rain. In Wigan?.❤️💛.
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Just in case Gus Gould and his fellow @NRL cavemen are having a sleepless night about us plague-hit europeans, please don't worry, we're double-jabbed and triple-chipped 🍕🍟😋😋. Bon soir. et bon weekend tout le monde!.❤💛🍷🍷
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Catalans Dragons President Bernard Guasch says ticket sales for the Nou Camp game are heading towards 30,000 . BEFORE Barcelona FC start to market them ❤💛.
#SuperLeague Bernard Guasch (@DragonsOfficiel) : "Franchir la barre des 30 000 places" vendues pour le match au #CampNou
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Catalans have already filled three aeroplanes and sold over a thousand tickets for the @SuperLeague Grand Final (and it's not even lunch time). ❤️💛🐉🏆.
À cinq jours de la finale de Super League au stade d'Old Trafford de Manchester, le club des Dragons Catalans a déjà vendu plus de 1.000 billets. Les trois avions affrétés spécialement pour les supporters au départ de Perpignan sont complets.
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Who'd be a coach? THE most thankless job in the game. Anybody who suggests Darryl Powell hasn't given everything he has to this sport hasn't got a clue. Bringing the game into disrepute? Not a chance. I wish others had such passion for Rugby League. ❤💛
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Hats off T! . momentum growing down here to have St Helens scrum-half Theo Fages named French Sportsman Of The Year 2020. Chapeau mon brave!.❤💛 @Saints1890 @SuperLeague
Trophée des sports - Sportif de l'année 2020 (Pyrénées-Orientales) : Théo Fages au milieu des plus grands via @lindependant.
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To all the prophets of doom and gloom for the greatest game. you're miles off. To the players and the supporters and the backers and the believers. keep on keeping on ❤💛 @SuperLeague @RFL @NRL
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Top of the league and they're not having a laugh. It's about time we all gave "a little bit of respect" to @hullkrofficial.Chapeau Les Robins 👏👏👏.❤️💛.
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It's a mad little whirlwind of selfish small-mindedness that sees an historic club from the fourth largest city in France reach the zenith of a successful ten year business plan, and then get chucked out on its ear in just over six months. That's more Stupid than Super. ❤️💛
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Funny how many Super League sides want to go to Vegas, Amsterdam and South Africa next year for mickey mouse games but nobody can afford to go to France for an actual league fixture 🙃.❤️💛.
Leigh's Derek Beaumont wants Leeds Rhinos fixture in South Africa as discussions with New York team revealed.
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For the first time ever, all Catalans Dragons' @SuperLeague fixtures home and away will be broadcast live and free to view online all over France by @lequipe in 2024. ❤️💛🐉
Rugby à XIII : L'Equipe live diffusera également les 27 rencontres des @DragonsOfficiel en 2024 en @SuperLeague.
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If you love Rugby League, doesn't matter where you're from, this is what it's all about. ❤💛😎👍
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Photograph of the year right here. John Bateman's last look at the DW Stadium last night. And taken by a humble scribbler. Bravo @PWilkinsonWIG of the Wigan Observer 👏👏👏
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Fourth aeroplane added to the chartered fleet for Catalans Dragons supporters heading to Old Trafford. ❤💛🐉✈✈✈✈.
✈ Un 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲̀𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗻 supporters a été affrété par le club pour aller à Old Trafford. ▶
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Limoux's not a big town and it was bursting at the seams last night when the new French Rugby League champions returned for a party that probably hasn't finished by now. Pictures by the Mairie of Limoux. ❤️🖤🥳🥳🍾🥂
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Smallest budget, biggest heart, allez les Diables Rouges!.❤️💛👹.
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What a great picture of @wolvesrl full-back Stefan Ratchford chatting with a young Catalans Dragons supporter on Saturday ❤💛😎👌 @SuperLeague #NouBeginnings.
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Jackson Hastings is doing more to promote Super League than all the game's chiefs put together. And the best thing of all is it comes naturally to him, he's enjoying it. Brilliant, brilliant signing for Salford - and for our sport ❤💛😎👍 Allez Jacko!.
Promised my man I’d come play him in Fifa, Man of my word. And yes that’s right I got the W! 🙌🏼 3 - 2 thanks @LFC and thanks Cael @Andyjc7 for the hospitality. I’ll be back for the rematch 😜 #SquadBuilder
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It's a tale of two cities!.Toulouse v London in the Rugby League championship Grand Final. if that doesn't give you a shuddering thrill of potential, try another sport. BELIEVE in our game. ❤️💛.@TOXIII @LondonBroncosRL @SuperLeague @TheRFL @IntRL @IMG @VisitToulouse
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Just had it confirmed. official attendance at yesterday's @FFRXIII Grand Final in Narbonne between Carcassonne and Limoux was 8,221. 💙🤍❤️
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Hey up Yorkshire. New direct @Ryanair flights from Leeds Bradford to Perpignan starting next June. great news for your trip to Perps!.❤️💛🐉.
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When a 7-yr-old English boy takes extra lessons to learn how to cheer his favourite team in French (and write a good luck card for the players) he deserves the love and support of the entire Rugby League family. Allez Steeley!.❤💛🐉
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OFFICIAL APPEAL. Would any English supporter who has enjoyed the hospitality here at Stade Gilbert Brutus in the past please consider wearing the blood and gold at Old Trafford next week? Your support would be massively appreciated. Go on, be Catalan For A Day. ❤💛🐉
.@DragonsOfficiel, you're going to Old Trafford 🐲. Back the Dragons in the East stand at the #GrandFinal 👇 #SuperLeague.
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Hey @PhilGould15, Willie Mason, Gorden Taillis, Kylie Minogue and Dame Edna Everage. your guys just took one hell of a beating. Allez @Saints1890, Allez @SuperLeague. ❤️💛😇🏆
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Ground-breaking moment. if C4 can do for Rugby League what it did for cricket and F1 this is the best news we've had for decades. Please come to France. ❤💛.
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Getting flooded with questions about lack of tv and radio coverage of today's games in France. Two games with huge influence at the top and bottom of @SuperLeague and it's like they have fallen into a broadcast Black Hole. Madness 🙃.❤️💛
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If you don't understand why London Broncos v Catalans Dragons is a good thing, I will never understand you. ❤️💛🐴🐉
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Hungry for some Rugby League? Come and have a lobster at Stade Gilbert Brutus ❤💛🐉🏆⭐ Building up nicely here in Perpignan @DragonsOfficiel v @Giantsrl @SuperLeague
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Top shelf goods. the Nou Camp gear is unveiled in the Catalans club shop this morning @DragonsOfficiel v @WiganWarriorsRL @SuperLeague @FCBarcelona 18th May ❤💛🐉🏆⭐
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I grew up watching Kangaroos against the Lions and Wally Lewis, Brett Kenny, Mal Meninga and Garry Jack were like Green And Gold gods to me. What will this generation of Aussie players be remembered for? Wimps who couldn't stand up to the @NRL's greedy and arrogant leaders?.❤💛
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Sad news from Perpignan. Catalans Dragons' number one supporter and a massive hero of ours, Robert Mourgues, has passed away after a short illness. Our deepest sympathies and sincere condolences to his family. It won't be the same without him 😥😥.❤️💛🐉
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Reasons to be cheerful. this is going to be very, very special in so many ways for our game. ❤️💛
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@9_Moley Catalans took a huge risk on giving Israel a second chance, losing sponsors and revenue, it's only right that they recoup some of those losses. Especially after they allow him to go home for family reasons and the next thing he turns up on TV wearing another club's shirt. ❤💛🐉.
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Mikey Lewis is a one-off genius player and maverick character. Can't somebody in the game's marketing department please, you know, market him?.❤️💛
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No curfew tonight in Collioure. happy Christmas everyone from Mr and Mrs Catalan Media🎅🤶.❤💛
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Catalans Dragons President Bernard Guasch will show off the Challenge Cup to supporters at the Barcelona v Girona soccer match on September 23. Allez les Dracs ❤💛🔥🐉🏆#Catalanscomingtogether.
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IT'S OFFICIAL. It's Coming Home. The Rugby League World Cup 2025 will take place in France after receiving formal government approval. ❤💛🇫🇷🏉🍾🍾🍾
🇫🇷 C'est fait ! 💪 🎉.
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Excruciating. On the 90th anniversary of French Rugby League we've gone back a century. I feel for the players and thousands of Treizistes battling to keep the game alive against massive odds. The suits that are paid to administer this great game should hang their heads in shame.
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Watching this Origin decider I gracefully concede that I understand why the Aussies place this above all other competitions. intense, ferocious, passionate and skilful sport at its very best. Chapeau 👏👏👏.❤️💛
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Catalans Dragons didn't win at Old Trafford but they won the weekend. The atmosphere in+around the Grand Final, the bond that French supporters now have with fans in the UK is a landmark moment for @SuperLeague's youngest club. They won so many people over. It was a big win. ❤️💛
Ce n'était évidemment pas le résultat espéré mais je reste fier de la saison, de mon équipe et de mon club. Merci à tous!
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8,855 spectators here at Stade Gilbert Brutus tonight including a few hundred very jolly, singing and dancing @LondonBroncosRL fans. ❤️💛
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If you want to know what the essence of Rugby League is, the mental and physical toughness, the fierce resolve, the refusal to accept overwhelming odds, just look at Dom Manfredi's performance for @WiganWarriorsRL tonight 👏👏👏👏.
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Remember this loyal supporter. Colin Riley who was the only @hullkrofficial fan in Perpignan this time last year. well he's back this week for the @SuperLeague semi-final. Bravo Colin!.❤💛🐉.
The loneliest guy in Rugby League tonight. the one and only @hullkrofficial supporter in Perpignan. he's travelled from Portugal for this!.❤💛🐉🐦
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Two and a half hours to kick-off on an historic night when Catalans Dragons lift the League Leaders' Shield and not a Tweet today from @SuperLeague or @TheRFL to mention it. Something for the all-English Strategic Working Party to think about, non?.❤💛🐉
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Regular followers (those who haven't left or blocked me) know I like to rattle cages back in the UK with wind-up pictures of sunny beaches and incredible sunsets over Canigou and Collioure. Here's another after a lunchtime trip to our local Carrefour Express. 🍅💛
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BREAKING. Catalan Media can exclusively reveal that the the new chairman of International Rugby League Troy Grant and @FFRXIII President Luc Lacoste are lobbying the French Government to hold the 2025 World Cup in France.
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@derek_beaumont Mate, arguing with you would be like playing chess with a pigeon. I'd make carefully considered moves while you'd strut around the board knocking pieces over, shitting everywhere and claiming you've won.
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"We need to play more Rugby League on television in France. ".Trent Robinson knows. ❤️💛🇫🇷🏉
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Over 1500 @WiganWarriorsRL fans expected in Perpignan on Saturday. The official away allocation sold out months ago; 15 60-seater coaches are heading up from Lloret and travelling fans are still snapping up tickets all over Stade Gilbert Brutus. It's going to be epic. ❤️💛🐉🍒
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Of all the wonderful things the Grand Final has thrown up, the emotion, the agony, the ecstasy, this picture makes me the happiest. Perhaps the best bunch of wingers you'll ever see together ❤💛
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Rugby League doesn't need IMG, or Vegas, or gimmicks, it just needs more games like that. and someone who can maximise its true potential revenue to better reward the players - because they deserve every penny they get. ❤️💛.
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Just wading through last night's events and a line from Steve McNamara struck me. "This club provides something special, these nights in the south of France are rare and unique, it's everyone's favourite away trip. It's a great event and win or lose everyone leaves happy.".❤️💛
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Who knew Rugby League could do this to you. in bits here in the south of France. Simply beautiful. ❤️💛
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If you don't like this sport, what's wrong with you?.❤️💛.
Rugby league's rules and laws explained ✍️. Yvonne Sampson shares the lay of the land for Americans ahead of Rugby League Las Vegas. Tickets on sale now:
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We asked some @hullfcofficial supporters here in Toulouse the big @SuperLeague question of le moment. 💙🤍🖤🤍
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The legacy goes on. Catalans Dragons have been invited to appear on BBC TV's Sports Personality of the Year Award. ❤💛🐉🏆⭐ Allez les Dracs
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