Comments on: France’s ‘New Deal': rules revamped for new Top 14 season

By: Quade Jovi

Quade Jovi — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:20:57 +0000

I agree with these new rules, but they need to add one which controls the amount of foreign players in the league otherwise it will become out of hand and “French” rugby will no longer exist. As there will be little place for French players.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:05:30 +0000

All seems sensible, agree with RuckingGray that they could have gone a bit further.

RFU has an incentive scheme for the average number of English Qualified Players in the match day squads over the duration of a season. Something along these lines seems sensible for France to try rather than just raising a salary cap and some compensation for absent players.

By: RuckingGray

RuckingGray — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:31:34 +0000

I’m a fan of the new rules – especially transfer loans, behaviour penalties and the 5 point rule.

I’m disappointed there weren’t bigger changes to force teams to bring on local talent – Financial incentives to take academy players into first team squads and stricter caps on the number of foreign players. As long as the likes of Toulon remain powerful based on money and foreign imports it will damage the national team.