Playing in a newly launched European circuit, the Super League, Paris finished the season in 11th place out of 12 teams, narrowly avoiding relegation.
[3] At the end of January, the team announced a first batch of 25 signings, consisting of 17 French players (including 12 internationals), plus 9 foreigners (6 Australians, a New Zealander, but also a Moldavian and a Pole).
[10] Former RFLer Daniel Divet of Limoux was included, but Baitieri soon clarified that the player was still on the fence about playing, and that the club was trying to convince him to sign at least for the first part of the season.
[16] Patrick Entat, who was widely envisioned as the team's captain, missed a large chunk of training camp, so the title was bestowed upon up-and-comer Pierre Chamorin for opening night.
Fouroux basked in the early success of its casual fan-oriented approach, relaying the story of the Canal+ hotline being overloaded by thousands of channel subscribers calling in to snag the tickets offered to them for the game.
Uncharacteristically, some rugby union personalities expressed their support, such as Roger Blachon, chairman of Charléty's usual residents Paris UC, and France international Jean-Baptiste Lafond, who commented: "They dared to do what had to be done, what we should all do.
[24] In May, the RFL assigned its academy coach John Kear to PSG as a special defense consultant for the rest of the season in hopes of shoring up the team's weaknesses.
[1][25] Kear himself considered that the end of the French league schedule, rather than his intervention, was the biggest contributing factor in the team managing to avoid relegation.
[1] In one of his last moves before his effective departure in late June,[1] Baitieri obtained a package of five players under contract with Murdoch's Australasian Super League (which was then blocked from operating by a court order), including Ian Russell.
[29] July saw further bold moves, as PSG entered talks with two recent Leeds players, Neil Harmon and Phil Hassan, controversially contemplating to sign them without paying any transfer fee, based on an interpretation of the new Bosman ruling.
[30][31] Later that month, the team signed former London Bronco Justin Bryant and former under-21 union international Jonathan Griffiths, leaving his former club Wakefield blindsided by the news.
[32] The changes produced an improvement in the results, with Wigan's Terry O'Connor calling Paris "a force to be reckoned with" after their narrow late season win on French soil.
[33] French rugby league historian Robert Fassolette, however, lamented the fact that it came at the expense of domestic player experience, which was one of the stated goals of the Parisian venture.
[3] The club only finished the season thanks to additional contributions from Super League backer News Ltd.,[35] and the relationship with parent organization PSG was left strained.
[3] Win Draw Loss Before the season, it was pondered to play the 20 July clash against Wigan in Toulouse to avoid a conflict with the arrival of the Tour de France.