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players misbehaviour in the suspended 1981 final in
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20-5 in front of 12,254 fans. They repeated the feat in 1964 winning 15-11 other honours came their way with a title in each decade 57,69 and 79. The 1980s would prove to be the club's most successful period. The era didn't start very well when the club was suspended by the league in 1981 for their
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RLFC toured the fledgling rugby nation and one of the matches planned was in
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successfully blocked their attempts to hire a stadium and for the first month of the season they had to play all away matches. In
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in the final. The following season they reached both league and cup finals but lost both. In 1938-39 season they won the cup for the first time beating
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in front of 12,254 spectators. The grounds all-time record attendance was also for a Rugby League game when it hosted the 1950
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remained at the ground until they moved in 1962. The club's record crowd came on 29 December 1948 when they beat the touring
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the head coach, found many early difficulties the main one being unable to secure a stadium to use. The local rugby club
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so becoming one of the founder members of the first league in France. The club's first chairman
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torture in 1944. The ground has hosted many Rugby League internationals it is now the home of
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had a vision of a super club in the region and in 2000 he was able to bring together
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was the club's first home ground, after initially being refused access by
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the ground was named after a famous
Catalan rugby player who died under
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20-16 in front of 10,000 fans in
Toulouse. During the war the
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16-41, but one of their own scored the historic first try in
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908:List of France national rugby league team results
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670:22 November 1978 lost 15-26 : 2,270
658:31 December 1956 lost 14-20 : 7,900
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667:28 January 1967 lost 7-37 : 3,000
652:15 January 1938 lost 2-53 : 8,000
664:1 January 1964 won 15-11 : 4,524
661:1 January 1960 lost 8-32 : 8,198
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363:Australia national rugby league team
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357:the local council stepped in and
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238:in 1934 under the guidance of
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574:1974-1975 : René Peytavi
556:1967-1969 : René Peytavi
377:in front of 18,000 spectators
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532:??-?? : Martin Serres
46:; 90 years ago
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622:Jean-Christophe Vergeynst
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339:Union Treiziste Catalane
212:Union Treiziste Catalane
1690:Second French team in
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873:Rugby league in France
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759:Rylance, Mike (1999).
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1021:Rugby Football League
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1396:Established 2001 in
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591:Jean-Jacques Cologni
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76:Stade Gilbert Brutus
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1123:Saint-Gaudens Bears
1064:Paris Saint-Germain
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960:National Division 2
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