We have been lobbying for this for ages and the club has listened.
An O'neills online store has launched with shirts for our domestic Elite 1 team.
There is also training kit, which is similar in essence to the main Catalans Dragons clothing but with the different colouring to the badge.
Click here to shop.
Despite the club issuing strong denials about a pending exit for Israel Folau this always felt like a case of when not if.
Steve McNamara was playing the right game by saying there were no issues with his controversial centre coming back to Europe for pre-season the fact the club are clearly in the market for centres was a red flag.
They are looking to replace David Mead was the response and whilst that is true the rumblings about Folau from the Australian media was enough to keep the alarm bells ringing in my head.
This isn't the time to judge whether he has been a success at the club or what his legacy will be. This is the time to get this resolved one way or the other and for us to move on if that is what we need to do.
The wife and I discussed it as we made our coffee this morning and her response was more direct that mine... "Yet another overpaid NRL player using us to get back in the sport and get their profile up".
If he is bound for St Geroge then being back in an area close to where he grew up might be enough of an explanation.
A number of outlets, including Total RL, are linking Catalans Dragons with a swoop for Kiwi centre Dean Whare.
Should the deal be concluded (and there is a feeling it will be done this week), he will join from Penrith Panthers in the NRL.
It looks like the potential signing would be as a direct replacement for David Mead who left the club at the end of the 2020 campaign.
The man who won us the 2018 Challenge Cup Final (albeit not single handedly!) has moved back to France from Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.
Tony Gigot left the Yorkshire side last week and has been quick to link up with his hometown club Avignon in the French Elite 1 competition.
Tony remains one of our favourite ever Dragons so we are delighted to see him continuing his career and closer to home.
UK rugby league website Total RL is reporting that the club has already held talks about relocating to England for the 2021 Superleague season.
The ongoing Covid pandemic seems to be causing the competition (which is already being delayed) to consider how to accommodate our club.
Last season we ninja'd in and out of the UK by flying there and back same day.
The cost of that on the club has been seen by the number of players released and as yet not replaced, whilst physically the travel meant the team just ran out of legs in the semi final at St Helens.
Whilst my preferred option would be to play our home matches at home, so-called big clubs like Leeds refused to fulfil away matches in Perpignan last season so it looks like a precedent has been set there.
Here is the article in full for you to have a read and form your opinion.
I would expect the rest of Super league to fully compensate us for our losses from accommodation and home revenues, especially if English grounds open at some point this year.
Jordan Flovie scored a length of the field wonder try which ended up being the difference in this windswept match over the weekend.
We are at home to Albi next week.
There are reports coming out of the local press in Catalunya to suggest that Covid-19 imposed travel restrictions are causing rumours that Israel Folau will not be back in 2021.
After joining in 2020 in a blaze of negative publicity Folau refuted suggestions that he was chasing the Euro's in the Top 14 and that he would spend a full year with the Dragons this time out.
But after stories linking him to Toulon rugby union recently it now appears he isn't showing up in France any time soon.
We will be keeping an eye on this...
St Estève XIII Catalan (6) 14
T : T. Chan, Franco
G : Brochon 3
Lézignan (2) 8
T : J. Guasch
G : Marginet 2
Click here to read the article on their website.
