The club from Perpignan hold won a lot of friends over the final 10 years; the future features a lot of adverts; and Super League says goodbye to Blake SollyBy Gavin Willacy for No Helmets Required,piece of the Guardian Sport NetworkTen uninterrupted years in Super League seems a reasonable timescale on which to judge a clubs progress. Catalans Dragons celebrated their 10th birthday recently and are now not only looking like serious contenders for a place in the Grand Final at feeble Trafford in October but are also one of the biggest earners in Super League.
As a major threat to our leading sides, it will be involving to see how their relationship with English rugby league fans evolves. For many, and the Dragons are their “second” club,the exotic team from the Med who should be embraced and encouraged… until they beat their team.
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Source: theguardian.com