How many overseas players are signed for next season?

Is it up or down on last year?

Hull FC

2011-Phelps, O'meley, Moa, Obst, Manu, Lauaki, Fitzgibbon. =#FF00407


2012-McKinnon, Martin, Seymour, O'meley, Moa, Heremaia, Manu. =#FF00407

2011: Hodgson, King, J Monghan, M Monaghan, Louis Anderson, Solomona... 6

2012: Hodgson, J Monaghan, M Monaghan, Waterhouse, Solomona... 5

I think!

Havent rovers got about 12?

2011: Roberts, Richards, Carmont, Finch, Leuluai, Hoffman, Lima, Cross ... 8

2012: Roberts, Richards, Carmont, Finch, Leuluai, Lima, Lauaki ... 7

too many!!!!

excuse my ignorance but can someone tell me if someone like Olivier Elima at The Bulls or Leon Pryce at Catalans qualify as 'overseas players' or doesn't it count if a player is from an EEC member state ?

thanks

For me as a maximum we should be having no more than 3 overseas players per team. None of this he's got a European passport or was born in Tonga non sense. We need to get more of our young players into first grade so in the long run there is more competition for places at international level.
There are so many positions in the England squad with not a lot of quality cover, if you take prop for instance once Peacock and Morley go what young props have we got coming through to partner Graham?!!?

Lee Mossop, LMS, Sam Burgess to name but a few. The salary cap is what forces youth promotion, not a cap on imports IMHO.

Cas:-

Mcgoldrick, Youngquest, Millington and Chase - 4

And as we all know, Chase now plays for England, so he could be off quota now.

Last season it was 5, Widders and Isa leaving.

Overseas trained, so a French player would be overseas in eng and vice versa.

Leeds Webb, Delanney, Hauraki Leulai - 4 this down by 3 with Buderus, Ali and Cross departing. Next season that is likely to be two with Webb and Leulai leaving

As many as allowed by the rfl

McDonnell, Webster, Green, Dobson, Clinton, O'Hara, Withers, Paea, Galea, Mika, Lovegrove

11, we win

Withers, O'hara and love grove don't count

I thought i may as well put an end to the thread before it descends into what we all know it will descend into.

I was genuinely interested in the over all number after the rfl quotes about overseas numbers coming down, and your correct I aren't bothered about who's quota/non quota.

Just overseas trained.

Well O'hara, withers and love grove aren't classed as overseas trained. We can all see this for what it is another Hull fan looking to have a pop at rovers

It's been done to death, we've got too many and everyone knows it do why do the rfl keep letting us sign them

Deflection tactics. I was talking to a guy the other day about the release of Obst and he was nearly coming in his pants at the 'rumours' of who was coming to the KC, Gallen, Watmough, Moi Moi were all quoted. Haven't seen him since they shocked the RL world to the core with the signing of Aspinwall

What the hell has that got to do with this thread?

Federation trained, so French players would not count over here and vice versa.

The thread is about "overseas" players, not quota players or non federation trained players.

Withers, O'Hara and Lovegrove are overseas players.

What as happened to misi taulapapa?

surely it should be non eligible for home countries that is of interest?

The RFL need to grow some and get serious about reducing the quota. The latest Crusaders farce shows they don;t really care still.

Simple way would be to link the SL grant to number of overseas players in a squad. For every non Home countries eligible player you lose 50k of your SL grant. Would soon make clubs think twice about signing squad players from the NRL. and Yes to the OP we have too many and seem to be happy to keep filling our team with NRL fringe players!

more interesting would be who has been brought up through the ranks and should get first team action this season

Fuck me, you can't even ask a question on here any more.