Attention Frenchies..

[Leighton]

Have any of you heard of Sonny Bill Williams?

[Bob Garage]

i'm not French but i'll answer this anyway...

I hadn't heard of him until yesterday. When I read a news article about him switching to toulon. To be fair I don't think many europeans will have heard of him before this news as no one up here cares about Rugby league. The northern hemisphere is prodominantly a Rugby Union area.

You've gotto wonder whether the switching codes will work for him. Apart from Jason Robinson (and some aussie whose name escapes me) I can't of any players that have made a sucessful switch from League to Union. Many in the past have made sucessful switches the other way, but 99% of those came back when money came into the Union game.

[Leighton]

Hehe. Half of the Wallaby's backline is from league. Barrick Barnes, Lote Tiquiri, Timana Tahu, Ryan Cross etc etc. Not even including Mat Rodgers or Wendell Sailor have been shit in coming back to league after stints in union.

The big deal about SBW is he's walked out on the last 4 and a half years of his contract to, what he calls, the biggest contract in French rugby. But it turns out he's going to get less than when he was at league. Major egg all over his face and I cannot wait till he catches up with his management who have been in his ear to leave cause he's about to be banned from ever coming back and will suffer huge civil costs in the upcoming suit.

[Bob Garage]

i don't agree wit the whle walking out of his contract part of this saga. As with football Toulon should be paying a transfer fee to buy him out of his contract or he shouldn't go. And I agree with the IRB stance saying they are staying out of this as it is purely a contractual dispute. Although he must be thick as shit for thinking this is "the biggest contract in French rugby" as toulon are a second division french side. He wouldn't even be playing top flight rugby in France.

[Leighton]

LOL! Sin-binned for a shoulder charge on debut. It's his signature move. I guess that's just as worthless his normal signature now.

The recipient described it as "the biggest hit of his life". "I felt like I was electrecuted."

The game of union is softer than a group of teenage girls hitting one another with pillows filled with air. What a laugh.

[Babou]

I don't know him at all