Bernard Laporte© (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Toulon boss Bernard Laporte has called for a reorganisation of the global rugby calendar with his team's start to the season hamstrung by not having their international contingent available.

Toulon are set to be without 17 of their top players for the start of the Top 14 season due to the Rugby World Cup. They have acted to bolster their squad bringing in the likes of Sireli Bobo and Lachie Turner but Laporte is disgruntled with the timing of the World Cup in relation to the start of their domestic campaign.

Laporte is about to embark on his final season with Toulon and is then set to turn his sights to securing the presidency of the French Rugby Federation where he hopes to push forward with reform.

"We're missing 17 players who are training for the World Cup, which is a lot," Laporte told Rugbyrama. "[The calendar] is not logical or normal. Only in rugby do you get this. The championship timing doesn't scare me, but I find it ridiculous.

"I spoke to [France football coach] Didier Deschamps the last few days, he said, rightly, that we are not normal. That's why I have a real desire to change all this. This is unacceptable in a professional world.

"There are people who don't pass reforms that should have happened today. How do you play your third championship without your best players?"

Toulon have also been hit on the Australian Rugby Union's change in contract policy which has allowed Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell to return to the Test fold. Giteau appears certain to be named in Australia's World Cup squad while Mitchell is fighting for one of the hotly-contested outside-back spots.

The European champions are also fighting to secure Quade Cooper with owner Mourad Boudjellal saying the controversial playmaker would be as broke as Greece if he fails to show up for a medical after the World Cup.